ChickenPing - Your electronic recipe book

ChickenPing is finaly available for the iPhone. iPad support will follow if there's demand. You can sync with a Dropbox acccount to make transferring recipes and managng a shopping list easier than ever.

If you like ChickenPing, please rate it on the App Store and have your say.

Changes in ChickenPing 1.9.5

• Added: iPhone support.
• Added: Sync with DropBox to make backup/sync with a mobile/cell phone easier.
• Added: Recipe grid virtualization, so loading a database of 10000 recipes should no longer cause a slow down.
• Fixed: Bug when searching for recipes by author.
• Changed: Default icon and other icons to ensure 5 sizes are available.
• Changed: Custom icon storage directory to be more consistent. Icons are now stored in ChickenPing's data folder instead of the application directory.

This release mainly addresses licensing problems which some users were reporting.

Changes in ChickenPing 1.92

• Fixed: Bug on bulk nutrition search.
• Changed: Authentication and licensing system to remove dependance on internet connection.
• Changed: ChickenPing can now import from backups created pre 1.7.5 (Thanks Daniel).

ChickenPing now offers cocktail and drinks management.

Changes in ChickenPing 1.9.0

• Added: Cocktail management.

Version 1.8.8 includes a a new wine cellar manager to catalog your wine cellar and a couple of new APIs, including Snooth and OpenDining.net. The ChickenPing recipe spider has been hard at work cataloging cooking terms from the furthest corners of the internet, all of which are now included.

• Added: Wine search via Snooth.com.
• Added: Restaurant search via OpenDining.
• Added: Cellar Manager to manage and index wine locations.
• Changed: Region/country labels are now hidden when the region/country for a wine are not set to save space.
• Changed: Position of the main window is now saved when closing.
• Fixed: Bug when submitting error reports.
• Fixed: Crash when searching Wine.Com with special characters (Thanks Matt).
• Fixed: Crash when trying to download the USDA nutrition database with a limited user account.
• Fixed: Bug when country and origin of wines was not shown when editing a wine.

Version 1.8.5 provides wine management features and integrates with Wine.com. Thanks to Wine.com and FatSecret for their great public APIs.

• Added: "Pairings" for items to link recipes with other recipes/wines.
• Added: Dropdown to quicksearch bar and streamlined the quicksearch bar.
• Added: Wine supplier/region management.
• Added: Search via Wine.Com.
• Changed: Multiple categories can now be deleted at one.
• Fixed: Bug when duplicating recipes which caused snapshots not to be duplicated.
• Fixed: Bug in measurement converter with negative temperatures.

Version 1.7.6 offers new features and support for the upcoming release of ChickenPing for Windows Phone 7. Aside from the spiffy new logo, there's also a new quick search bar and several bug fixes (Thanks xcorvis, WakkoBlues and everyone else who helped with testing and suggesting features for this release).

• Added: Windows Phone 7 support.
• Added: Import from REML.
• Added: Quick search bar (Thanks xcorvis - #2, #3)
• Added: Option to send a recipe with a message to friends via email.
• Added: Extra step when importing recipes to allow selection of the recipes and categories to include.
• Added: Conversion options for temperatures (Thanks WakkoBlues), and ability to set units for a temperature, also to convert between different temperature units.
• Added: Select/Deselect all button for categories (Thanks xcorvis - #12)
• Added: Option to submit recipes to ChickenPing.com and view recipes via the site instead of just the application.
• Added: Auto-upgrade to new databases schemas, hopefully eliminating the need to export/re-import after upgrading.
• Fixed: Preparation time parsing bug when downloading from FatSecret.

ChickenPing Mobile 1.31 will be the last version which supports Windows Mobile 6.5. All future releases will be targeted at WIndows Phone 7. If you need a reason to upgrade, ChickenPing's measurement converter and metro interface should be reason enough.

ChickenPing 1.75 adds some long requested features and paves the way for an Android syncable vesion in the near future.

1.7.5

• Added: Ability to add custom icons (Thanks Rhaz and Judy3356).
• Added: More icons (Thanks Judy356).
• Added: Italian Translation (Thanks Filippo "Scorpioprise" Montano).
• Changed: Parsing and display of fractions to allow more tolerance of imperial measurements (1/3, 2/3 etc) - Thanks pgauthier71 and slcollns.
• Fixed: Hungarian translation bug. (Thanks Judit).
• Fixed: Casing bug (Thanks Deshi).

You will need to backup/export your database before upgrading.

ChickenPing 1.70 adds some nice features related to printing and loads more icons.

Changes in ChickenPing 1.70

• Added: More icons (Thanks Judy356 and aaguilera83).
• Added: Printing of meals for a range of dates (Thanks Esgrimidor).
• Added: Creation of shopping lists for a date range.
• Added: Print preview for shopping lists on meal planner (Thanks aaguilera83).
• Fixed: Fraction bug when languages which use a comma as a decimal separator were used (Thanks aguilera83, judy356, MrMert, yarfapet and ufoao).

ChickenPing Mobile users will also need to upgrade the version on their device.

ChickenPing 1.67 includes a number of new features and tweaks to functionality requested by users. There's a cooking dictionary and ingredients can now be sorted by an artificial order. There have also been improvements to the way recipes and shopping lists are printed.

Changes in ChickenPing 1.67

• Added: Culinary Dictionary feature (Thanks bgbiggs).
• Added: Option to sort ingredients by an artificial order (Thanks Professor X and Rhaz).
• Added: Searching by author name (Thanks MightyVI).
• Added: Checkbox column to the shopping list print output, and sorted ingredients by name.
• Added: Slider to control the width of the paper when printing shopping lists (Thanks aaguilera83).
• Changed: Categories are now sorted by name (Thanks MightyVI).
• Fixed: Duplicate measurement bug when printing a shipping list (Thanks aaguilera83).
• Fixed: Recipe name now appears when printing a meal list (Thanks aaguilera83).

Export your database before upgrading, as the database schema has changed. This means ChickenPing Mobile users should follow the steps for upgrading in the readme.

If you'd like to contribute content (dictionary definitions or substitutes or otherwise) in return for a big mention in the application, the readme and the contributors page), please get in touch.

You can now download thousands of recipes online by using FatSecret.com's recipe search as well as ChickenPing's own online database.

1.65 (6th February 2010)

• Added: FatSecret.com recipe search and download.
• Added: Check for updates feature.
• Fixed: Bug which caused sometimes causes an unhandled crash when editing the quantity field of an ingredient.
• Fixed: Importing bug which prevented recipes exported/reimported to a PC with different regional settings.

This version shouldn't need a database export, but you may want to for your own reference.