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Introducing Namminamm
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Written by: Ágúst
07.10.2009
KITCHEN AID AND ORGANIZER
Namminamm is one of the projects being developed by Snjóhús. The basic idea is a community recipe organizer and cooking aid that speaks to you and that you can control with voice commands. One of the central features of Namminamm is its no-touch cooking approach.
Each recipe step is read out by the program as a step or a page in a cookbook. The ingredients in the recipe are all associated with a step. This way you will always have a display of the ingredients being used in the current step. After you’ve finished the last step you have the option of uploading pictures you’ve made of the dish, comment about the recipe, rate it’s simplicity and tastefulness or contact the author.
The recipe organizer part of the program is also a big priority. Each recipe belongs to one of a pre-defined category but users can also define tags that he or she associates a recipe with such as “Thai”, “Old Continent” or simply whatever comes to the author’s mind.
When searching for recipes, the search can be used to filter out recipes based on scores. Say if you wanted to find a relatively inexpensive dinner recipe that does not contain more than 250 calories and has at least 4 out of 5 stars for taste the program will have no problem providing recipes that fulfill those requirements.
Below are a few screen-shots of the program in it’s current state (early development). Keep in mind that the look and functionality will change significantly until the program is ready.
Overview of your personal recipies and bookmarks
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Adding a new recipe: writing down the recipe steps
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You can add your own pictures to each recipe
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Searching for recipes
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Like hot pink? Pick from one of the 6 themes available
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Don’t like MS Sans Serif? Pick any font on your machine as well as font size
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Snjohus’ Free Word of the Day Service
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Written by: Ágúst
24.08.2009
WORD OF THE DAY
Snjohus doesn’t have a lot of content at the moment as almost all of our products are either on the drawing board or under development. One service that has been implemented though is the Word of the Day mailing list. One of Snjohus’ founders (Ágúst) is a language geek and thought it would be cool to increase the world’s awareness of Icelandic (and German) by offering a free “Word of the Day” mailing list service. A unique Icelandic word (and German if you sign up for the German Word of the Day mailing list) is sent out to all participants on the list along with its English translation and examples of use.
Snjohus’ Word of the day Mailing list was started as an effort of mine to help my foreign colleagues at a computer game company in Iceland to learn more of the language. With time the list grew until it became quite unmanageable. This is why the process has now been digitalized and automated. I still have to pick the word and the examples but the rest of the process has been coded away, leaving only the interesting parts of picking words and examples.
Feel free to sign up for the mailing list by clicking on the link.
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