MacGourmet News

Mariner Software "unofficially" broke the news today of a new publishing partnership between Mariner and Advenio for a new product to be known as MacGourmet Deluxe. More details will be released over the next few months, but you can read the news here: Announcing our new product!.

This is great news for MacGourmet, as it will open many new markets for the product, and will allow many things people have been asking for, like localizations, to move forward finally. Keep following MacGourmet News for the latest updates, as they are announced!

[Update: Just to clarify, for most of you this won't change much, as MacGourmet development will continue more or less how it always has, nothing changes on that front. The publishing partnership will, however, make MacGourmet available in retail outlets around the world. Note that this is not an acquisition or transfer of ownership of any kind.]

[Please note: I had to reject a couple of anonymous comments (something I don't normally do) because they were based on inaccurate assumptions. If you have any concerns, please feel free to email me and I'll clarify what I can.

Mealplan for MacGourmet.

Plan your meals, print your menus.

Details coming soon...

After an extended outage (caused by an incompetent web hosting provider) MacGourmet.com is back online and things should be working normally again. Please bear with me as I work through the support backlog. I apologize if your support email bounced or got lost during the outage. If you think this happened to you, please try sending your request/comment/question again. Thanks!

(Please also note that the forums will be down for a while, and some images will be missing until I can move them over to the new server)

TheMacWeblog (now down) posted their 5 Mac Applications that should really, really be iPhoneized (and why the developers would make a mint) and sent me some questions regarding MacGourmet on the iPhone. My responses were posted in a follow-up (which like the original article has now been taken down), but I sent them the following:

Can you see MacGourmet coming to the iPhone or iPod Touch?

Absolutely, and I've said as much already:

In my year-end summary
When Apple announced their intentions: Apple's Plan to have iPhone SDK in Developers Hands by February Means MacGourmet:To Go, Coming Soon!
When the iPhone was released: MacGourmet iPhone Support is Coming...

So I think you can see that yeah, I'm on the record as wanting to do this. I'm the MacGourmet developer, but also a cook and user too, so I want a nice iPhone way to take my recipes, notes and shopping lists with me too. I was also one of those "crazy" people waiting in line the day iPhones when on sale, so it's a platform I'm personally excited to develop for.

The release of MacGourmet 2.3 is nearing, and I'm looking for "brave" people who are interested in giving the new version a go before the release is final.

Version 2.3 will be a free update, and will include a lot of "under the hood" changes. While the all-around changes in the new version are significant (significant enough to have an all new "recipe box" icon and new document icons), one really visible change is the all-new shopping list. It's now more flexible, and includes a simple "favorites" list that can be used as a pantry if desired. The favorites list will allow you to create predefined shopping list items, items that can dragged and dropped to your shopping list to quickly add commonly used items.

The new shopping list is also smarter. If you have shopping lists that have aisles, stores and categories filled in, or you've added items with these filled in to your favorites, these values will be automatically filled in for you when you create new shopping lists. If you're someone who uses shopping lists a lot, and have had problems with them or things you've wanted to see them do that they didn't, just send email to macgourmet [at] advenio.com to be added as a tester in the next week or so.

Additionally there are a lot of little things that have been done to improve the product, changes I'll detail in a later post.