The 7 Most Important Things To Consider When Looking For a Recipe Software Program
For you do-it-yourselfers who can’t wait for me to finish reviewing all the recipe management software applications, I have put together a three page guide discussing the 7 most important things to consider when looking for recipe organizer software. Simply, subscribe to my email newsletter and I will send you this informative three page guide absolutely free. On top of that, I will periodically...
October 30th, 2009 by Ian
Time for Calendars?
Christmas themes in stores, it must be October! Its also a good time to stock up on calendars for 2010! Kitchen Wall Calendar Today, Recipe Software Guide is taking a break from doing recipe software reviews and bringing you a reminder about 2010 (as if you need one), plus a cool site with a great deal on calendars. Calendars.com has a three day sale (20% off, plus free shipping for orders over $20,...
October 28th, 2009 by Ian
Now You’re Cooking 5.86 Review
Today, Recipe Software Guide downloaded and looked into the Now You’re Cooking 5.86, 60 day trial version. The following is a brief recipe software review of the major comparison points for this recipe software application. Cost: $30.00 for download with 16 recipes, this also includes future upgrades and access to their website to download and import 700 plus zipped files with more than 100,000...
October 20th, 2009 by Ian
Recipe To Go Update
Just a follow-up to last week’s blog, here on Recipe Software Guide, on Recipe To Go’s recipe software review. I received some information on backups and moving recipes to another computer. I emailed their support email address on Oct 12th and received a response back 7 days later on Oct 19th. Both backing up and copying recipes to another PC can be accomplished by copying/saving two files...
October 19th, 2009 by Ian
Recipe To Go 1.0 Review
Today, Recipe Software Guide downloaded and looked into the Recipe To Go 1.0, free version. The following is a brief review of the major comparison points for this recipe software application. Cost: The download is free, but has online ads on the home page. If you want to avoid the ads, you can purchase a version for $9.95. System: Recipe To Go recipe software program works on Windows(2003, XP, or...
October 13th, 2009 by Ian
Home Cookin 5.9 Review
Today I downloaded and looked into the Home Cookin 5.9, 15 day trial version (by Mountain Software). The following is a brief review of the major comparison points for this recipe software application. Cost: $34.95 for download with 20 recipes, $44.95 for download and a CD with 12,000 recipes. Two years of upgrades are included. Outside of the two year period, there’s an upgrade purchase...
October 7th, 2009 by Ian
Cookbook Wizard Review Follow-up
Just a follow-up to yesterday’s blog on Cookbook Wizard recipe software review. I thought it would be a good idea to install Cookbook Wizard on a couple of different platforms. So, I installed it on a 10 year old pc running Windows 2000 Professional and a fairly new pc running Windows Vista. The application installed and worked in both environments. On both of these systems, I have Word 2000...
October 6th, 2009 by Ian
Cookbook Wizard 2.0.7 Review
Today I downloaded and looked into the Cookbook Wizard 2.0.7 trial version. The following is a brief review of the major comparison points for this recipe software application. Cost: $17.95 for download, $23.95 for CD. System: Cookbook Wizard recipe software works on Windows(98, ME, NT, XP, 2000, 2003 or Vista). I am using XP Professional. Approx 5MB download that downloaded and installed easily. Apparently,...
October 5th, 2009 by Ian
Free or Purchase?
In my previous blog about Comparison Features to consider, I didn’t even mention cost. Why is that? Many people go straight to the list of free recipe software before considering the recipe software that you have to purchase, or even consider the cost involved in choosing the freeware. There are some issues to consider here: Free doesn’t necessarily mean good. Pretty much all the recipe...
October 2nd, 2009 by Ian
Comparison Features
As I mentioned yesterday, I am currently working through downloading trial versions and testing many of these recipe software products. I will be looking into issues such as: system issues (requirements, installation, support, backups) ease of use, is it intuitive recipes (quality, number included, number available to add) recipe maintenance (adding, rating, organizing) recipe printing, emailing,...
October 1st, 2009 by Ian
