Check out Delicious Library
Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight®, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world.
Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before. Browse, sort, and search through your digital shelves. Sync your cataloged library onto your iPod or print a color catalog and take it with you. Find and purchase new items using Delicious Library's personalized recommendations. Keep track of the items your friends are borrowing using Delicious Library's loan management system, which integrates with Apple's Address Book and iCal.
Take advantage of new, cutting-edge Mac OS X Tiger features with Delicious Library. Search through all of your library data using the Spotlight menu and enjoy anytime access to your entire collection with the Delicious Library Dashboard widget.
New in version 1.6.6
- Fixed race condition when scanning some items where lookup would sometimes report failure, but show the correct item as a possible 'alternative'
- Tweaked widget to draw correctly in Safari 3 Beta
- Fixed crasher during type-to-select when sorting on certain criteria
2.0 is Coming (But Don't Delay on Our Account)
Our coding gnomes have been working for years to come up with a worthy successor to the first, award-winning Delicious Library, and work is almost complete — Delicious Library 2 is being beta tested by non-risk-averse people around the world, right this minute. In fact, we've already won an Apple Design Award for the new version — before we shipped it!
Of course, you don't want to buy version one and then have us come out with a much cooler version, and then feel like a total chump. But we've got your back! Everyone who buys Delicious Library from now on will be upgraded for free to version two when it ships. Dang, that's generous, huh? (People who bought version one before December 1, 2007 will have to pay $20 for the upgrade; sorry guys, we gotta eat.)
You'll need to be running Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" to run Delicious Library 2, because we use Apple's absolute latest technologies. So, if you're hopelessly stuck in last year's technology (e.g., 10.4), now you have another reason to upgrade. Or, if you don't want to upgrade — well, you can keep using version one as long as you like; it's not like it's gonna explode when we release version two.
What's new in two? Well, all kinds of amazing stuff. It's MUCH faster, it can hold many, many more items without bogging down, and the graphics are prettier. And features? Oh, yes, we have features. We've got smart shelves (like in Apple Mail or iPhoto or the Finder), we've got one-click publishing to .Mac or to FTP sites, we've got Bonjour sharing of libraries with other local users, we've got full AppleScript support, we've got automatic, worldwide currency conversion... it's a long list. We've literally written three times as much code for this version as the previous one. That's a lot of code.
But, hey, you'd expect us to say Delicious Library 2 is neat: we wrote it. So why not click on some of the sites below, and see what they have to say about the beta copies they looked at? Please note that we cannot promise any particular features for Delicious Library 2; it is still being developed and the final features and specifications are subject to change at our whim.
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Ars Technica Preview
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AppleInsider Preview
TUAW Preview Demo Movie
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Theocacao Sneak Preview 1
Theocacao Sneak Preview 2
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Apple Design Award Winners
From Your Shelf to Your Screen
Delicious Monster doesn't sell iSight cameras, but they come built-in to the Apple iMac and MacBook, or you can buy one from your local Apple Retail Store or at the Apple Online Store. An iSight can also be used for much more than barcode scanning - you can use it to video conference with friends, set up a webcam online, and even play interactive games.
If you have tons of items, or don't want to have to take your items to your computer to scan them in, check out our wireless scanner.
Delicious Monster doesn't sell iSight cameras, but they come built-in to the Apple iMac and MacBook, or you can buy one from your local Apple Retail Store or at the Apple Online Store. An iSight can also be used for much more than barcode scanning - you can use it to video conference with friends, set up a webcam online, and even play interactive games.
If you have tons of items, or don't want to have to take your items to your computer to scan them in, check out our wireless scanner.
If you want the absolute best experience importing your library, the new RoV® Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner is definitely the way to go. The RoV is Microvision's second-generation scanner, and it replaces the large, clunky oscillating mirror with Microvision's MEMS technology — a tiny chip that has teeny little electro-mechanical mirrors on it that guide the laser much more precisely than the previous generation of mechanical scanners. The RoV scans barcodes quickly and accurately, and it works well in any light conditions. You can buy the RoV wireless scanner directly from us when you buy Delicious Library, for less than it would cost to buy a Bluetooth laser scanner alone (without software) from any source we've seen. If you can find the same scanner for less, for gosh sakes buy it!
If you've got hundreds of items to import you should look into buying an Apple iSight or our RoV® Wireless Laser Barcode Scanner; it'll save you a ton of typing and it's a heck of a lot more fun.
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