tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:12 +0000News about Delicious Monster, the company. (As opposed to Delicious Monster, the tasty late-night snack?)http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (Terry)Blogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-5034133355878189721Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:51:00 +00002009-08-28T05:07:10.237-07:00[If you parle français, then congrats on being a polyglot! Also, you may have already read this interview I did with MacGeneration.com. For those of us stuck with Americanese, I've asked if I could post the original version here.]Florian Innocente [MacGeneration]: From the user's perspective, what can they expect from *your* software once you have optimized them for Snow Leopard ? If any kind of http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2009/08/snow-leopard-it-built-for-future.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-199463748379985572Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:30:00 +00002009-08-11T19:50:37.660-07:00Delicious Library1.7upgradeAmazon2.2...to update to Delicious Library 2.2. As of August 15th, 2009 (that's in four days!) Amazon is requiring all users of their data (us) to digitally 'sign' requests for information. In English that means Delicious Library is no longer going to work unless you update to 2.2 (or 1.7 if you're still using Version 1.) When you next launch Delicious Library (1 or 2) it should prompt you to update. Do http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2009/08/time-has-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Terry)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-3395777366053262006Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:36:00 +00002009-07-28T20:47:44.227-07:00Now that we've moved the company down to sunny (hah!) San Francisco and we've got most of our stuff out of boxes (or at least hidden in closets), we're back to improving Delicious Library 2!Tonight we released Delicious Library 2.2 beta 3 which contains some major improvements over Version 2.1.Mainly, DL 2.2b3 is now compatible with Snow Leopard--something we thought might be useful with the new http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2009/07/third-betas-charm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-5405992558333746382Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:57:00 +00002009-04-14T13:14:03.353-07:00Our iPhone application is in its final stages of production, and we are going to need some beta testers for it. Don't worry if you've never beta tested an application before, what we need is real users who are willing to spend some quality time using our app. We won't be able to give everybody copies of the application, so I'm putting together a small list of people who are enthusiastic about http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2009/04/wanna-be-first-to-use-our-iphone-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-8429073713674581566Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:56:00 +00002008-12-28T19:36:01.047-08:00Ah, December! As most of us are winding down from the holiday season, we here at Delicious Monster are gearing up for the biggest holiday of them all: Macworld Conference & Expo (Jan 5-9). We've chosen quite a clever theme for our booth this year: Delicious Library (like, an *actual* library-- get it?). Packed with shelves, books, a team of Delicious Librarians, and a handful of other Library-ishhttp://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/12/macworld-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-6239088696042089826Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:51:00 +00002008-12-21T00:25:37.365-08:00• It's on sale for $30 (that's 25% off)!• You don't have to wrap it. Saves paper, saves money, saves time!• Trust me, everyone already has a scarf.• You don't have to ship it. No waiting in line at the post office, and no paying $20 to have it sent to your grandma in Tennessee.• It doesn't take up any space, so she won't secretly resent you for cluttering her house with more stuff.• It's http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/12/why-dl2-is-ultimate-gift.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessie)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-9050032655585404456Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:02:00 +00002008-09-01T19:08:11.203-07:00The big changes in this release are mostly around publishing and subscribing to friends' libraries, with some publishing methods being re-written from scratch, and every method being tweaked in some way. As well, a common issue where it would appear Delicious Library 2 is being extremely slow when in fact it was loading a friend's collection from the internet (often unbeknownst to the owner!) hashttp://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/09/delicious-library-203-released.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1317178227974761359Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:05:00 +00002008-08-30T03:00:35.940-07:00I need my beta releases of Delicious Library 2 to be tested, for serious; otherwise I might miss things I've broken when I was fixing other things, and put out a general release that has new bugs in it in addition to the fixes. Nobody likes that.I've never had much luck with full-time paid testers. I'd happily go this route if I thought it'd work, but, honestly, in 25 years of writing software, http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/08/wanted-bugs-100-cash-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-6872833796722185633Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:15:00 +00002008-07-26T05:29:23.673-07:00As of July 15 Terry managed to get caught up with all our support mail, which was a Herculean achievement. We'd received about 35,000 e-mails in the two months since Delicious Library 2 was launched, and Terry sorted through most of them herself. (We respond to every request for help, but for bug reports we usually file them without a response.) Sure, a lot of that was spam, but a LOT of it http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/07/support-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-3010976329363108782Tue, 27 May 2008 10:52:00 +00002008-05-27T04:12:33.398-07:00We've been working on Delicious Library 2 since November of 2004, with six months out to do internationalization of Delicious Library 1.5, and four or so months to rewrite iSight scanning for internal iSights in Delicious Library 1.6 . Delicious Library 1.0 only took seven months to write, so, obviously, this one was a lot harder.There are over a hundred new features in 2, and hundreds more bug http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/05/delicious-library-2-has-arrived.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1725537098669549504Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:59:00 +00002008-02-18T22:03:51.194-08:00A 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 http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/02/week-or-so-ago-wil-gave-me-generous.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Lee)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-7719357178973834497Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:25:00 +00002008-02-01T15:29:12.519-08:00Starting 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 http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/02/unscheduled-store-and-e-mail-downtime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-559424687061208472Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:58:00 +00002008-01-14T00:21:01.750-08:00I 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 http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/01/thank-you-for-complaining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-221325407321388541Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:33:00 +00002008-01-13T02:39:59.607-08:00On 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.Covad's http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2008/01/unscheduled-delicious-store-outage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1935828015608994755Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:39:00 +00002007-12-20T18:04:04.564-08:00As 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 version 1http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2007/12/delicious-library-buy-now-upgrade-later.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-3218104541221392592Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:16:00 +00002007-12-13T18:31:38.059-08:00Would 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 way http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2007/12/childs-play-charity-auction-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-488275673405365326Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:44:00 +00002007-10-27T00:48:53.922-07:00Delicious 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, http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2007/10/delicious-library-leopard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Lee)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1648627923326809754Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:43:00 +00002007-01-04T18:04:53.092-08:00It'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 recommended http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2007/01/2007-first-three-years-were-just.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Wil Shipley)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-115041762348158624Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:04:00 +00002006-06-15T17:58:52.063-07:00You 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 saleshttp://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2006/06/meme-spirited.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lucas Newman)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-114801792846238571Fri, 19 May 2006 05:50:00 +00002006-05-18T22:52:08.480-07:00So, 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.http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2006/05/hey-its-forum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Lee)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-114780789378916616Tue, 16 May 2006 19:14:00 +00002006-05-18T01:31:55.723-07:00What'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 http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2006/05/library-macbook-crazy-delicious.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lucas Newman)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-113727466049643131Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:00:00 +00002006-01-14T20:49:28.913-08:00We'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 where http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2006/01/delicious-monster-in-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Drew Hamlin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-113590307798050688Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +00002006-01-06T16:30:51.190-08:00Join 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. We'll http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2005/12/macworld-expo-2006.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Drew Hamlin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-113499336267164698Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:00:00 +00002005-12-19T22:54:05.906-08:00Macworld 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 Awardhttp://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2005/12/delicious-library-wins-macworld.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Drew Hamlin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-113133973275933259Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:00:00 +00002005-12-19T16:22:35.083-08:00Everyone 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 movies http://www.delicious-monster.com/blog/2005/11/delicious-tip-process-of-elimination.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Drew Hamlin)