Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article
> >,
> Alexander > wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.
>>
>> I'm looking for something online and free (picky, I know). MasterCook
>> is a software application and costs money.
>
> You're not picky, you're cheap. Maybe you can find an old version of
> MasterCook somewhere that costs less than a newer version. (Is MC even
> being produced anymore?)
I believe it is not. Value Soft, the manufacturer still supports it,
after a fashion, as I understand from the Master Cook discussion group
on Yahoo! Groups (excellent source of how to use the software, etc) That
group strongly recommends that one does NOT purchase a downloaded
version, but buys the disk set from Value Soft. Also Version 8.0 has
some flaws that 9.0 corrects.
I use version 7.0 and am more than happy with it. The only difference is
that 8.0 and 9.0 have a button that is supposed to work on Internet
Explorer to capture a recipe and export it to the program. Since I don't
use IE, that feature isn't important to me. One of the people on the
Yahoo! Group invented a program that does the same on Firefox and I just
love it. It only works on specific sites, however, but the program
itself has an 'import assistant" that lets you copy and paste things
right into the recipe with ease.
Check here for some good prices on the MasterCook software.
http://tinyurl.com/ceoulo
Don't get the Woman's Day one. The different types of the same version
reflect the cookbooks packaged with it. I use Master Cook to keep my own
cookbooks on, so I really don't care about the others. Also there are
some complete cookbooks on the Internet that one can download directly
to Master Cook (free) One of them is Alton Browns.
http://www.madsrecipes.com/
If you are considering purchasing Master Cook and have Vista, you have
to join the Yahoo! group I mentioned as they have a tutorial on how to
get the software to work with Vista.
I don't have any ties to the company. I'm just a happy user on my 3rd
(and probably final) version.
--
Janet Wilder
way-the-heck-south Texas
spelling doesn't count
but cooking does