MacGourmet Deluxe 4.2 B2 from Mariner Software has now been released. You can use coupon
code ( TOMW ) in the Mariner Software eStore and save 25% off new purchases and 5 pack bundles today!
MacGourmet Deluxe and MacGourmet are our two powerful recipe
management applications that enable you to easily create, edit,
organize, and share your recipes.
- Make notes about wine, beer, and cheese — like pairings, for example. You’ve got a Pinot Noir in your wine rack, should you pair it with Colby or Cheddar – or both? Is there a beer that goes well with apple pie?
- Search the pantry for ingredients and use the results to plan a meal
- Add Lists, Smart Lists, or sub-lists to categorize your recipes such as, Vegetarian, Gluten-fee, Low Fat, even “recipes from Grandmother”
- Create shopping lists. Print out a list and take it with you, or sync it to Gourmet (for iOS), the mobile version, and check off items while you walk through the store
- Flag the recipes that made you stand out at that dinner party
In rather major news, we ran our first successful tests of Microsoft Office 2013!
The most interesting part is that this series of testing was done with
Wine and not CrossOver. While the code that allows for this testing to
be completed is not yet in Wine, our developers believe their patches
are relatively clean and they are upstreaming each patch as soon as it
is ready. The Wine community should see this work begin trickling into
the main Wine tree on a daily and weekly basis. As our work is
completed, Microsoft Office 2013 will come closer and closer to
installing on Mac and Linux systems with mainstream Wine and its
derivatives.
Word 2013
launches but typing is invisible. The document portion of Word appears
blank though text is being typed. (Marketing jokes that invisible text
may not actually be all that big a deal; but Testing thinks that it is.)
Two weeks ago we welcomed a new MacBook Pro into our mix. This dual GPU updates our spread of hardware for game testing and brings the AMD Radeon R9 370M to our capable hands and allows us to continue our testing on the Intel Iris. We said goodbye to our Nvidia GeForce GTX 750M and sent it live out its years with our Support Ninjas at the 
people
from around the world in a variety of combat situations / simulations.
Games are more about 'team sport' and 'high performance' than about
solving riddles or achieving simple goals. And gamers are taking this
'team thing' seriously as there is now a Professional Gaming League
for most of these games. If your parents ever told you that you
couldn't make a living playing video games, THEY LIED TO YOU. The top
gamers now make six figure incomes playing games and are treated like
'rock stars' at these events. 
earning
victory usually requires practice. PRACTICE??? Who's got time for
practice? I'm lucky with my schedule that I even get to play games at
this stage of my life (husband, father, suburbs, three dogs). So, I'll
be sticking to random teams – for now. I just wish that the time I
spent in my youth on Atari 2600 and Nintendo wasn't so largely wasted leaving me unprepared for today's gaming. 
However, you might still be able to play these titles on your Mac or
Linux computer when they are released later this year using