tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92698812008-02-26T09:41:09.866-08:00Lucas NewmanBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-17255370986695495042008-02-18T21:59:00.000-08:002008-02-18T22:03:51.194-08:00

A week or so ago Wil gave me a generous time budget and one simple mission: solicit localizations in as many languages as possible, no matter how underrepresented they are in our user base. I pondered the wisdom in those words for a while, then banged out a post on my indelicately-named blog. The gist of it was this: universities and other organizations trying to preserve pre-colonial languages

Mike Leetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-77193571789738344972008-02-01T15:25:00.000-08:002008-02-01T15:29:12.519-08:00

Starting Thursday, January 31, two of our host machine lost internet access. The DSL people are working on this, but I am told it may take from five to seven(!) days. Our website is up but our store is down, so you cannot buy Delicious Library until the DSL is restored. We also are not able to read or answer support mail right now, but we're hoping to come up with an early workaround for getting

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-5594246870612084722008-01-13T23:58:00.000-08:002008-01-14T00:21:01.750-08:00

I wrote a semi-famous web comic creator recently, after reading his strip for years. I'd written him a couple years ago, telling him I liked the strip, but, I said in this latest message, I felt his strip had lost its heart recently, and I told him specifically what it was that I thought caused the change. I ended with this: I'm sorry to just write to you and complain -- I know you put a huge

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-2213254073213885412008-01-12T18:33:00.000-08:002008-01-13T02:39:59.607-08:00

On Friday, January 11, at about midnight, the machine at Covad Networks / Qwest which provides service to a great hunk of Seattle went down. As of Saturday, January 12, at 6:34PM, it is still not up. This machine provides the internet link to our store, but not our main website. This means you can download our software and view our website, but you can't buy our software for a few hours.

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-19358280156089947552007-12-20T17:39:00.000-08:002007-12-20T18:04:04.564-08:00

As you might have guessed after we shipped Delicious Library, we've been working on Delicious Library 2. Shocking, I know. We've had some nice previews on Theocacoa, Ars Technica, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and, of course, Apple. We're working our butts off on version 2 ever since we shipped version 1, but there have been delays - first off, because we had two very major free updates to

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-32181045412213925922007-12-13T18:16:00.000-08:002007-12-13T18:31:38.059-08:00

Would you sell your pants in the name of charity? For the third year in a row we had the honor (well, actually, we paid) of attending the annual Child’s Play Charity Dinner Auction, hosted by Penny Arcade’s crowd-pleasing yet surprisingly shy Gabe and Tycho. The night was a success from a fundraising standpoint, raising over $225,000 to buy toys for sick kids! (Seriously, if they could find a

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-4882756734053653262007-10-27T00:44:00.000-07:002007-10-27T00:48:53.922-07:00

Delicious Library 1.6.6 (the current version) is compatible with Leopard, but it can expose a bug in Leopard for some users (apparently only on PowerPC machines). After upgrading a machine from Tiger to Leopard, Delicious Library (and, for that matter, other applications) may crash on start up because of a Leopard bug in reading your favorite Bluetooth devices. Fortunately, the fix is simple,

Mike Leetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-16486279233268097542007-01-04T17:43:00.000-08:002007-01-04T18:04:53.092-08:00

It's hard to post in this blog because we don't want to waste our customers' time and goodwill with lots of blah blah blah -- what's important enough to say here? How do we phrase it? Should we be friendly or businesslike? Who should post stuff? But, eventually stuff builds up, and it needs sayin'. So here we are. First off: Thank you. Seriously. Thanks. You've bought our software and

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1150417623481586242006-06-15T17:04:00.000-07:002006-06-15T17:58:52.063-07:00

You know we love a good meme here at Delicious Monster, so we thought we would quell the cries (yes, all three of you) by posting our conversion rates for Delicious Library: Library Conversion Rates20056.02%Last 30 Days7.67% It's interesting to see that the conversion rate has actually been higher lately, as opposed to back when we were getting scads of press. We are chalking this up to more

Lucas Newmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1148017928462385712006-05-18T22:50:00.000-07:002006-05-18T22:52:08.480-07:00

So, we have this blog to announce things and share our thoughts, and we have email for one-on-one questions and comments, but it occurred to us we needed something a little more community-interactive. So, we asked our good mates at MacNN to host an official forum for us. Check it out.

Mike Leetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1147807893789166162006-05-16T12:14:00.000-07:002006-05-18T01:31:55.723-07:00

What's better than a brand new Apple MacBook? A new MacBook with Delicious Library, of course! Delicious Library works perfectly with the built-in iSight camera in the new Intel-based MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac. The iSight acts as a barcode scanner inside Delicious Library, making the easiest to catalogue all your media -- we studied algorithms developed by astronomers to refocus blurry

Lucas Newmantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1137274660496431312006-01-14T10:00:00.000-08:002006-01-14T20:49:28.913-08:00

We're back from a great week at Macworld Expo. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! We're really happy that we've been able to let even more people know about Delicious Library and we're super excited about what we're working on for this year. Delicious Monster was featured in the Seattle PI yesterday. It's a good insight into what we're about, what we've been been up to lately, and

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1135903077980506882005-12-29T16:00:00.000-08:002006-01-06T16:30:51.190-08:00

Join Delicious Monster in San Francisco for Macworld Expo, January 10-13! We'll be showing off Delicious Library all week at booth #710. For those of you who will be in the area, but don't have a way in yet, we have an unlimited number of free exhibition passes that we can give away. If you want a free pass (does not include keynote or sessions), write us at freepass@delicious-monster.com.

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1134993362671646982005-12-19T14:00:00.000-08:002005-12-19T22:54:05.906-08:00

Macworld Magazine has just announced the winners of their 21st Annual Editors' Choice Awards and we're happy to report that Delicious Library is among the winners. Praising it as a "Top Productivity Booster" for the 2005 year, Macworld editors said Delicious Library makes it "a breeze to catalog all your stuff." Read the full Macworld Editors' Choice Award

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1131339732759332592005-11-06T21:00:00.000-08:002005-12-19T16:22:35.083-08:00

Everyone knows Delicious Library is a great way to catalog your DVD collection, but were you aware it's also a great way to pick which movie to watch? You can create shelves in Delicious Library as a permanent way to categorize items, but they can also be great and easy way to decide on a movie. To add a shelf, press: To begin the process of elimination, add a new shelf and drag all of your

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1129931844773717792005-10-21T14:45:00.000-07:002005-10-21T15:07:36.643-07:00

We've just unveiled a brand new Support knowledge base that makes it even easier to get answers to your questions about Delicious Library. Now you can view top questions, search for information, find related articles, and, most importantly, give us feedback - there's a rating control on every page so that you can tell us what we're doing well or what we could be doing better. Combined with

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1128233267397507212005-10-01T23:04:00.000-07:002005-10-21T14:45:14.926-07:00

Wil Shipley, the co-founder of and programmer for Delicious Monster, will be interview by Cocoa Radio soon, and if you want to ask a big question, here's your chance to hear the answer instead of, say, reading it, which is what you'd get if you sent us mail. Note that we probably won't be answering support questions on the show, so if your question is, like, "Hey, will you guys allow me to

Wil Shipleytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1127214492391770712005-09-20T04:00:00.000-07:002005-10-13T14:49:42.093-07:00

Delicious Library is an amazing way to catalog your book, movies, music, and video games -- but once you've assembled your collection and loaned out items to friends, the last thing you want to worry about is dropping your laptop, having your computer stolen, or losing everything because of hard drive issues. Luckily, combatting data loss is easy! By backing up your data monthly, weekly or

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1122002263893075392005-07-21T20:00:00.000-07:002005-12-19T03:49:02.296-08:00

DrunkenBlog has posted a lengthy but insightful conversation with our own Wil Shipley, discussing everything from early never-before-seen Delicious Library mockups to experimentation with "extreme gardening." For a closer and personal look what we do every day, it's a great behind-the-scenes interview with our co-founder.

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1119037772664325532005-06-17T12:00:00.000-07:002005-07-21T20:24:24.856-07:00

Delicious Monster just returned from an amazing week at WWDC 2005, Apple's worldwide Mac developer conference in San Francisco. It was a great chance to make sure we're solid on new and upcoming Apple technology as well as an opportunity to meet one-on-one with Apple and the engineers behind Mac OS X Tiger. As many of you most likely know by now, Steve Jobs announced during his keynote that

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1114737457120824082005-04-28T18:13:00.000-07:002005-04-29T01:09:43.716-07:00

Mac OS X Tiger will be on store shelves tomorrow and lots of people are already receiving their pre–ordered copies in the mail. Just in time we have released Delicious Library 1.5. It's a free upgrade and has a bunch of new features that take advantage of a bunch of the cool new Tiger technologies like Spotlight and Dashboard. Be sure to get Tiger and download Delicious Library 1.5. We would

Mike Matastag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1114201135318358002005-04-22T13:16:00.000-07:002005-04-22T20:15:22.860-07:00

Everyone at Delicious Monster has been hard at work for the past several months on Delicious Library 1.5, a free upgrade that will be made available on April 29th. For the new version we've focused in three major areas – Tiger support, internationalization, and bug fixes. Mac OS X Tiger is right around the corner and Delicious Library 1.5 has been optimized to run

Mike Matastag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1114046902669318332005-04-20T18:22:00.000-07:002005-04-20T18:29:03.470-07:00

Want to do something really cool with your Delicious Library covers? Check out MozoDojo, a new, free tool that automatically creates mosaic images from your Delicious Library cover art. You can download it here.

Mike Matastag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1111091185438675242005-03-17T12:20:00.000-08:002005-03-17T13:00:34.133-08:00

The always amazing David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times and author of many bestselling Mac books including the "Missing Manual" series and "Macs for Dummies", just posted a humorous and amazing video review of Delicious Library. Click here to check it out!

Drew Hamlintag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1110249692082197352005-03-07T18:25:00.000-08:002005-03-10T01:04:29.576-08:00

So, it turns out Logitech's webcams that have a manual focus (the "4000" and the "Zoom" models, at least) work fine with Delicious Library, IF you use the correct drivers. This is kind of cool because Logitech's webcams are cheaper than iSights, but, frankly, they're really not as nice: no autofocus, cheap plastic cases, the mounting bracket is plastic and loosens easily, and the image quality

Wil Shipley