MacGourmet 3.2.2 Released
30 January 2012
MacGourmet 3.2.2, a free, minor update for MacGourmet 3 is now available.
This update includes:
- Improvements in scaling and importing/exporting
- Improvements in performance and stability
For a full list of changes, please see the release notes page.
As always, MacGourmet can be downloaded from the MacGourmet download page. You can also get the update using the built-in updater.
MacGourmet Deluxe users: MacGourmet Deluxe 3.2.2 includes the above changes. It can be downloaded from Mariner’s website and by using the built-in updater when it’s available.
Mac App Store purchasers can update as soon as it’s available for download there in the application.
How to Use Services in Mac OS X
11 January 2012
Mac OS X Services are one of the easiest ways to get recipes into MacGourmet, but often one of the most misunderstood features of Mac OS X.
Macworld has an informative write up on what they are, and how to use them, that can help when confused: How to Use Services in Mac OS X
In MacGourmet, to import a recipe, all you need to do is select the address of the web page in your web browser and then choose the “Import Recipe from Web Page” service to import it.
To make a clipping, you just need to select the text of a recipe, and then choose the “Clip Recipe” service.
Happy New Year! (and 2011 the year that was)
30 December 2011
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to 2012!
Wow, what a year 2011 was. It was the best year for MacGourmet so far, my thanks everyone for that! Let’s recap the year:
MacGourmet had a major update in October 2010, and there was a lot of carryover into 2011 from that. Alex, who helps with the simpler frontline support, joined part-time early in the year. To help make the bulk of support email that I get every day easier to manage, I changed to a new support ticket system on Feb 21st. Over 6100 tickets have already been processed in just 10 months. Alex has helped, but I still handle most of these, on top of doing support for sales made through Mariner Software. Think about that one for a second.
Apple opened the Mac App Store for business in January. It’s been great for sales, but the always-changing limitations and requirements imposed by Apple means that the two versions sold there, MacGourmet, and MacGourmet Deluxe, are two slightly different versions from what are sold in the web store, so they both require additional work, testing and support. So, that’s almost like 4 apps to build, maintain and test now.
An updated iPhone new iPad version were released in March, to, hm, mixed reviews. We’re working on big improvements for these, and they will be the near-term priority. There have been two problems getting them updated: first, MacGourmet for Mac already takes 110% of my time and the contributes the big majority of the company earnings.
Second, we don’t have just a few users, we have a LOT of users. Because of this, we can’t just throw together something that will sync all of the apps and be a MobileMe publishing replacement (we hope, eventually. MobileMe shuts down in July) and rush it out. It has to scale, and it has to be reliable, and it has to have storage for a LOT of data. The first implementation wound up getting scrapped, so syncing using iTunes as added to the iOS apps in the interim, just so people would have something.
Peter and I are working on what will hopefully be ready sooner, rather than later. Your patience is really appreciated while we continue to work on it. Keep an eye out on this space, we’ll be looking for testers as soon as we have something to start testing.
At the end of April, with Peter’s help with the web service, we released 3.1 with online new web site importing: Over 200,000 recipes have been imported in just 8 months with over 100 sites now supported (up from 10 previously)! MacGourmet 3.2 followed up shortly after with additional enhancements.
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released in July, iOS 5 was released in October. Two major OS updates. This alone in a year is significant. These releases were on top of everything else that was going on.
During 2011 though, to say that I’d become overextended would be an understatement, despite my attempts at trying to manage the growth. 2012 should hopefully be a year of getting things back on track and rounding out what there already is. It should be a great ride!
Happy Holidays from MacGourmet!
23 December 2011
May your holidays be filled with good times, great meals and lots of tasty treats!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
(Please allow for some longer support times over the next week, as I take some much needed time away from my keyboard to visit with friends and family. Thanks!)
MacGourmet 3.2 Released: New In-App Web Site Importer
26 October 2011
MacGourmet 3.2, a free update for MacGourmet 3 is now available.
This update adds a brand new in-app web site importer, which lets you go to your web sites from within the application and import from there, rather than having to use Safari, Firefox, etc. This can be really helpful when you want to import more than one recipe in a series, or import from a site that requires a subscription, like America’s Test Kitchen. Just open the site from within MacGourmet (File > Import Recipe from Web Page), log in, and you should now be able to import.
For a full list of changes, please see the release notes page.
As always, MacGourmet can be downloaded from the MacGourmet download page. You can also get the update using the built-in updater.
MacGourmet Deluxe users: MacGourmet Deluxe 3.2 includes the above changes. It can be downloaded from Mariner’s website and by using the built-in updater.
A Sad Day...
5 October 2011
Thanks for everything Steve. We’ll miss you, and all of the insanely great things you gave to us over all those years.
“There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.” — Pres. Obama
