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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

This release adds some requested features and should improve readability for imported recipes. Users of ChickenPing Mobile will need to update it to version 1.24 as well.

• Added: Persistent storage for In the Fridge (Thanks Esgrimidor).
• Added: French (Canada) translation (Thanks Gabriel Mongeon, ing. jr.).
• Added: Print preview to meal planner and recipe printing.
• Added: Option to print recipes when printing meals from the meal planner.
• Added: Minimum version check when synchronizing with ChickenPing Mobile.
• Changed: The contents of the fridge are now saved between restarts (Thanks Esgrimidor).
• Changed: Replaced buggy numeric up/down controls (spinners) with a simpler TextBox which responds to the arrow keys.
• Changed: Shopping lists are now synchronized with ChickenPing Mobile.
• Changed: Behaviour of MealMaster parser.
• Fixed: RecipeML parsing bug (Thanks Csutkbaba).
• Fixed: Recipe nutrition view bug.

Printing should work better for long recipes which span more than one page, it's been redesigned along with the meal planner (below).

ChickenPing is now available in Spanish and recipes can be imported from FDX format, which supports pictures.

• Added: Import from Food Data Exchange (FDX) format.
• Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Carlos).
• Changed: When searching for nutrition for a recipe, the food selected from the USDA database for each ingredient is now remembered.

It's now easier than ever to add recipes to ChickenPing. You can import RecipeML, MasterCook MX2 and MXP and Mealmaster files, as well as paste ingredients from a web site. There's also a 'Recipes' link in the top menu with some suggestions to get you started.

• Added: MealMaster, MasterCook MX2 and MasterCook plain text import.
• Added: Author and Preparation Time fields to recipes.
• Changed: Recipes and backups can now be imported from their native formats (xml, mmf, mx2 etc) as well as zip files or multiple zip files or any combination of the two.
• Fixed: Bug which caused fractions to be parsed incorrectly from RecipeML.

If you like the software, please donate (£10 was donated between January and November).

If you use ChickenPing Mobile, you'll need to hold off for a release if you still want to synchronize. ChickenPing Mobile has also been updated, so you need to make sure you're using 1.18.

ChickenPing 1.49 includes a German translation and new additions to the meal planner as well as tweaks and fixes throughout.

• Added: Meals list, search and print options to meal planner.
• Added: Ability to print a shopping list for a date range in meal planner.
• Added: German translation (Thanks Michael Erdmann).
• Changed: Redesigned shopping list print output.
• Changed: Pasting ingredients now only works when the Ingredients tab is selected.
• Changed: Colours on Sticky Fingers mode (Thanks Dave).

ChickenPing now has a meal planner, which will be extended with further functionality in the future as well as a translation into Spanish.

• Added: Meal Planner.
• Added: Option to manually specify calories for nutritional analysis.
• Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Arturo García).
• Added: Notification if a recipe has been scaled to allow use of discretion with cooking times.

It's now easier to lookup nutrition data for a whole recipe, and the ongoing problem with adding new measurements should also be resolved.

• Added: Nutritional analysis for a whole recipe.
• Added: Preference to enable/disable auto-completion of ingredient names.
• Changed: If the Add Recipe form is closed while an ingredient is being edited, the ingredient is now saved.
• Changed: Measurement Combobox on recipe and shopping list dialogs to an auto-completing TextBox instead.

For the nutrition conscious, looking up a nutritional analysis of calories, fat and other nutrients is now instant thanks to an option to download the USDA database.

ChickenPing will now recognize Spanish measurements and if you'd like to see your language supported, let us know or volunteer to translate.

• Added: Option to download a local copy of the nutrition database for instant searches.
• Added: Spanish measurement recognition (Thanks argarmx).
• Improved ingredient parser.