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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Living Cookbook 2005 1.5
Pros: This program looks good and is fairly easy to use. I found it to be VERY similar to Easy Recipes Deluxe.
Living Cookbooks has lots of bells and whistles I don't need. You select colors, fonts, and display options. I just need to store and organize recipes.
Cons: You have to pay for registration for all computers you use the program on. I use a laptop and desktop at home for my recipes, so I would have to pay for the registration twice. No option, I could find, to copy a recipe to clipboard so recipe can be shared on line.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Living Cookbook 2005 1.5
"this is an amazing software and I recommend it to everyone"
Pros: * I wanted to organise all my recipes and began searching the web to find a good software to do this. I installed many programs and there was always something that I didn't liked and I was beleiving The Software did not exist.
Then I tried Living Cookbook.
* When I have a question, Lee Grainger (Radium Technologies Staff) answers very fast on the forums. For every problem he find a solution.
* The software itself is very userfriendly, you can open it and begin to import or create recipes easily. If you want to do the more sofisticated stuff and don't find immediately how to do it, there is a downloadable extended help and many movies on the site with howtos and of course, as mentioned before, the forum.
* Ingredients in recipes can be linked to an (adaptable) ingredients database with extended nutrition information and info about the ingredients. You can calculate points if you want to do a diet and chose the way they are calculated. For exemple, if you use WeightWatchers MyPoints you can configure the program to calculate points. I really love this feature !
* The recipes can also be linked with cooking techniques what is very helpful if you want to use many times a technique and don't want to include it into each recipe. There is also a glossary for cooking terms.
* You can search recipes with or without ingredients and also on nutrition information what I do not need but people who are on diet will shurely love this feature. You can search for ingredients and you can use filters.
* There are many other pros like the publish tool, with templates you can adapt or create new, easily export and import recipes, calendor, meal planning, menu management etc.
* I have french and dutch recipes altogether and find this software the best I found. There are no valuable softwares in french or dutch and this one is very good.
Cons: * The multilanguage or "otherthanenglish" tools are barely existant. I found many ways to use the software with different languages but the software could be better for not-english-speaking users. There is also no translation.
* When you search recipes with ingredients you can only chose WITH or WITHOUT ingredients. The OR exists only for ingredients on hand (inventory).
* There is a bug when your decimal separators are not american. For exemple, I use a "," als decimal separator. This means concretely that everything works fine except if you want to give prices to ingredient to calculate mealcost.
* You can not chose the size of the images you add to recipes, ingredients or cooking techniques. Images are resized automatically but this really is a minor problem.
* Lee answered for most of this problems that they will be resolved for next version of the software.
* The mail with your license is not automaticaly send and you sometimes have to wait before you receive it. The best way to have it faster is to post a message on the forum.
* The cons really mean nothing compared with the pros and I absolutely recommend this software t everyone. It is absolutely amazing.
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3 stars
Version: Living Cookbook 2005 1.5
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3 stars
Version: Living Cookbook 2005 1.5
"this baby"s a keeper ....good to great and gets better"
Pros: the layout is easy to use-
gives tons of information on each recipe
very professional and handy
Cons: that goofy timing out reminder...i thought it was free....
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Living Cookbook 2005 1.5
"A great concept, but using it is cumbersome"
Pros: Lots of features and functionality. For example, the nutrition calculator works well and as far as I can tell far exceeds the capability of any other programs out there. Living cookbook offers the ability to easily organize and manage recipes, and has an excellent search capacity. Also, the import feature works amazingly well - I had thousands of recipes imported in no time. This program is good for someone who wants a lot of features, is familiar with using databases, and spends a good deal of time with recipes and cooking.
Cons: I had problems with the program crashing when I tried to do searches, bring up weekly menus, create shopping lists, and do other operations. This made the program cumbersome to use and was actually severe enough to prompt me to buy BigOven instead. I also didn't really like the Living Cookbook interface - it is much less "pretty" and user-friendly than some of the other options. Because there are many features, using the program can be somewhat complicated; it takes quite a while, for example, to enter a new recipe, especially if you want the program to calculate nutrition information. Trying to find and get rid of duplicate recipes can be very time consuming, and if you have a lot of recipes in the cookbook, searches can take a long time (although the search capability is pretty amazing overall). The program has licensing restrictions that seem excessive.
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