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Summary: Crash happy recipe software
Review: I never write reviews of software, or anything for that matter. However, I felt compelled to warn others before they throw away 40 bucks on this software. It is very hard to install if you are missing some .dll files. You have to scower the internet to find and download the right ones. Also, I bought the combination package that had two other recipe cd's included. If you load these in the wrong order, watch out as well ! Once I finally got everything up and running, it worked for about a month, then crashed. I finally got tired of fixing this program, and decided to use the cookin' delux cd's as drink coasters. Beware.
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Summary: Problems from the start
Review: I purchased several of these for me and for gifts. I tried installing the program and received errors right from the start. I uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times and each time did the online update as suggested. Still I received errors. When I contacted customer service online, it was suggested that I visit their troubleshooting page online. I did that and one of the errors I received was not listed. I recontacted the customer service person and was told to uninstall and reinstall the program (which I had already informed them that I had done). All of a suddent, I am not getting the errors anymore, but when I click on the DVO icon to open the program, nothing pops up on my screen. Their customer service person said to call them between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. MST. I am at work during those hours, so I would never be able to call them to get the problems resolved.
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Summary: Not what I was hoping for
Review: I was very disappointed in this program and do not plan on buying any other programs from this company. I've worked with it for several months now, but have only been increasingly dissatisfied with it.I have a metabolic disorder, which requires careful attention to my diet, so I bought Cook'n primarily for the nutritional analysis. I've found, however, that there are frequently glaring inaccuracies in the analyses. The most obvious is a tendency to list sodium as being 400+ mg. These errors happen even when all the ingredients in the recipe have full nutritional information in the database. When I followed their instructions for importing recipes (using some Meal Master recipes I downloaded from the internet) the program reacted very strangely and started giving me serious problems. For instance, some of the cookbooks disappeared, and the screen look changed. I uninstalled, then reinstalled it. For some reason that only partially corrected the problems. I never have been able to get the original program I worked with back up and running, even after installing the upgrades. As noted in earlier reviews, support is pretty much nil. All I was told was to go to their website, in spite of the fact that I explained that I had already been there. The website help section is small and has very little information. It was not at all helpful to me. Overall, I wish I'd listened more to the negative reviews when I was researching this prior to buying it. They detail, for the most part, exactly the sort of problems I've been having. I've given up on Cook'n and am now looking for another program that will give me the nutrional information I need, with more flexibility in downloading, and more accuracy in nutritional anlysis.
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Summary: #1 Software, and still improving!
Review: I've tried every recipe program out there, for the PC and the Palm platform, and DVO's titles are the at the front of the pack in every aspect. They're not perfect, but they offer free monthly updates, and continuously improve. They work well for me, offer lots of great recipes, have friendly staff (quick answers to tech support questions), and are just all-around excellent. Give them a try. You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: BEST for real life cooking!
Review: I've used the CookN software for about 3 years now, and I have to say it is the best! The technical support is fantastic -- yesterday's email question was answered within an hour. This software has WONDERFUL recipes from the Current catalogs and calendars and other cookbooks, too. Real food for real people! I've added tons of my own recipes and haven't had a problem with incorporating them into meal plans and shopping lists. The software is organized as cookbooks and chapters, just like the my books on a shelf with the added capability of searching across all or some of them for ingredients I have on hand. I agree with the other reviewer that the store categories were somewhat confusing, but it took all of 20 minutes to go in, edit all the categories changing them to aisle names in my store, and now I can print out a shopping list in the order I walk around the store. WOO HOO!!!! I, too, have had the errors pop up where I had shut down inappropriately and corrupted some index somewhere. But, by downloading the latest updates (FREE!) and following the instructions on the website, I was back up and running in less than 15 minutes with all my old recipes intact. And, the new software promises this won't happen as much. As far as importing recipes, there is a freeware program available (Meal Master) that lets you read in MasterCook recipes from the internet and then you can upload them directly into Cook N. I was able to load 2 or 3 cookbooks full last night, in about 10 minutes (a cookbook at a time). Not too shabby!!! All in all, this one does it all. A glitch here and there maybe, but hey, I'm only human! :)
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Summary: Cook'n Deluxe--Even at this price, it isn't worth it.
Review: My choices of cooking/meal planning software are limited because I use Windows NT. So I was delighted when I found this software--and found it so reasonably priced. Then I opened the package. The instructions are dreadful. If I weren't relatively computer savvy, I'd really be in trouble. The instructions are vague, sparse, and all but useless. The poor instructions (a sixteen-page user's manual) wouldn't be a problem if the online help were more comprehensive and easier to read or follow. There is nothing intuitive about the program. The nutritional analysis function is cumbersome at best. Adding recipes is not particularly easy. I have not tried to use any other functions because these two tasks--the primary reasons I got the software--have been so annoying. While an on screen message says you need the CD to view pictures of the recipes, the program won't open without the CD--whether you want to view recipe pictures or not. Something I absolutely hate. This software is so irritating to use I haven't bothered to register it (just purchased it about 5 days ago) and I'm about to delete it from my computer. I would have given it 0 stars if that had been an option.
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Summary: Couldn't be in better shape!!
Review: My grandmother was wanting computer software with cooking recipies for Christmas. I doubted that I would ever run accross something like that in a store, so I searched Amazon.com. I ended up finding this...and the price seemed awesome. Within a week it showed up on my doorstep in perfect condition. Of course, I should have expected that using Amazon. But now I'm a belieiver. I give it 5 stars for price and condition. Since it's a gift that I'm giving, I don't know what the software is like it's self.
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Summary: WORST COOKING SOFTWARE EVER
Review: old interface, many bugs, user extremely unfriendly, a complete waste of money for overpriced piece of cooking software developed by some unexperienced software writer, that is lucky to get away with such an unsatisfactory job! Get living cookbook software instead, instant download online, it is the best one by far.
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Summary: Really bad software
Review: The interface is just simply horrible to work with. Reminds me of software from 10 years ago.
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Summary: Great Software...Great Company
Review: The more I learn about this software and the company that created it, the more impressed I am. They created the first version 12 years ago and cooking software is all they do. Rather than selling upgrades every six months to make a buck, they fix problems and add new features on a monthly basis and let all of their customers download updates for free. What more could you ask for? I bought this because it sounded neat but now I must say that I'm a believer. The software works great and the company supports the product very well. They send me a free monthly newsletter with cooking tips and recipes that I can download right into my software. The President himself even gives out his e-mail address and encourages his customers to send feedback. I've checked out some of the other brands like MasterCook but none of them even come close to Cook'n. I highly recommend this product.
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