Shop’NCook Blog

This is last minute, but… If you haven’t yet planned your Christmas day menu, are expecting visitors, don’t know what to make and how… This could be a life saver.

There is a hidden Christmas menu in Shop’NCook Menu and Pro.

Click on the Library tab of the Calendar, select “Example of complete menu” and display the Menu manager. Just set the number of servings, add the ingredients to the shopping list, print the menu and the recipes… and you are good to go!

Merry Christmas to all!

 

Have you noticed the new software boxes on Shop’NCook website for a few days? Aren’t they pretty? A very talented designer made them for me. I had done the previous ones myself. Here they are:

Before:

After:

It is easy to see why it is not my artistic talents that make Shop’NCook such a great software…

Anyway, here is the holiday special:

Order before December 20 Shop’NCook Home, Menu or Pro with a back-up CD in a sleeve (it costs just $10 more than the version for download), and receive instead the CD in a DVD box with the pretty new covers. Plus, the shipping is on me! Wouldn’t Shop’NCook make a great gift for Christmas?

Note: according to USPS holiday guidelines, packages shipped in the US by priority mail before or on December 20 should reach you by December 25.

This video explains why ingredients are sometimes converted to shopping units when adding from recipes - and sometimes not. It also shows how to change the preferred shopping units to any units of your choice.

You can watch below three new features of the recipe editor in action. They are small improvements which should improve the usability and user experience of the editor. Do not miss the previous post on how to import a recipe in less than 20 seconds.

This video shows how a recipe can be imported into Shop’NCook in less than 20 seconds.

Note: The recipe costing is in the Pro edition and the meal planner in Menu and Pro editions only.

I have just uploaded the new release 3.4.3 of Shop’NCook Home, Shop’NCook Menu and Shop’NCook Pro. You can download it now here.

Registered users of version 3.4 can update to version 3.4.3 for free and do not need a new registration number. To install or update, just run the installer on top of your current installation. Like usual, it is always a good idea to make a back-up of your data before installing a new version.

The Mac release is again compatible with Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3. At the same time, all the small quirks on Leopard have been fixed. The Windows release is now signed, meaning that XP and Vista users will not see all the time these annoying “Security warning” message and can confirm they have the original copy of the software.

The new features include:

• a much awaited Paste button in the wizard;
• supports drag & drop of recipes - just drop the whole recipe text onto the recipe panel to import it;
• supports drag & drop of pictures - just drop a picture onto a recipe to add it;
• new Toggle button in the recipe editor to transform conveniently a line of instructions into an ingredient line and vice versa;
• On Mac, supports now the pict image format that is used in particular by FireFox and Internet Explorer browsers.

In coming posts, I will show some of the new features in action.