Delicious Monster Software today released Delicious Library 1.6, a free upgrade to its MacWorld Eddy, O’Reilly Innovators, and Apple Design award-winning home-library cataloging and sharing application for books, movies, music, and video games.
Version 1.6 includes completely new barcode scanning technology to enable owners of new iMacs and MacBook Pros to use their integrated iSight® cameras. This new technique uses ideas based on astronomy research on refocusing images from earth-based telescopes, and allows Delicious Library to correctly decode barcodes from images that are very blurry to a camera’s optics. Employing Apple’s highly optimized Accelerate framework, Delicious Monster was able to re-invent an algorithm that takes several hours per frame in astronomy into one that can find and decode a barcode in 1/200th of a second.
Delicious Library 1.6 is a now Universal application, running natively (full-speed) on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and also includes assorted bugfixes and performance improvements, as well as localizations for three additional languages (Danish, Italian, and Swedish).
Delicious Library’s preexisting exclusive features include 30fps iSight barcode scanning to import your stuff, beautiful photorealistic digital shelves full of high-resolution 3D renderings of your covers (which makes finding what you are looking for incredibly intuitive), Address Book and iCal integrated checkout to keep track of who has your stuff, and smart recommendations to help you find new things to add to your library. Delicious Library also boasts automatic syncing with iPods, two-click purchases from Amazon.com, and a native XML file format to give advanced users direct access to all their library data.
Delicious Library costs $39.95, with an optional wireless Bluetooth laser barcode scanner available for an additional $174.95. Owners of other commercial collection packages will receive an upgrade discount of $10.00 and can easily import their existing collections into Delicious Library.
More info: http://www.delicious-monster.com/
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great!
I believe the barcode feature has been in the software for some time now.
What the hell is it again? A library sharing app? a barcode scanning tool? Who would use this? slow news day.
How about adding support to other databases? I have a lot of things it never finds………
The barcode feature was in the previous version, but if you read the article you’d note that this version has a NEW and IMPROVED Joker™-brand barcode translation AlGoreRhythm.
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“What the hell is it again? A library sharing app? a barcode scanning tool? Who would use this? slow news day.”
I use it, and love it. Delicious Library is a great app, and has a great user interface. The UI is so good, in fact, that Apple hired away their lead UI designer.
If you want to see what it is you could just click on the link provided with article. Crazy idea, I know, and obviously far less fun than just complaining from a position of ignorance.
“If you want to see what it is you could just click on the link provided with article. Crazy idea, I know, and obviously far less fun than just complaining from a position of ignorance.”
Well, I guess close to 75% of us just need to stop coming to MDN then…
That goes for myself…
PR did you bother to see the product’s website before blasting this story and product? Probably not since you don’t seem to know.
It’s a great application and indicative of the kind of high quality Mac shareware that’s availbale.
So what, it’s not an earth shattering story. It’s no tablet Mac, it’s no video iPod. I’m sure MDN will continue to update Mac users on the status of their favorite apps as they become universal. If you think it’s a slow news day why don ‘t you go dig up your own Mac news and post it on YOUR Mac news site. Let us know when it’s available.
Truly a credit to the Mac software market. Windows users don’t know what they’re missing.
“I believe the barcode feature has been in the software for some time now.”
It didn’t previously work for fixed-focus iSight built into the recent iMac and upcoming MacBook Pro. They used that astronomy algorithm and can now read the blurry close-up of the barcode.
These guys make the best software, I only wish they would make something that I personally had a use for. Most of my collection of stuff is all digital these days. I think it’s great software though for people that have a lot of CDs/DVDs.
It’s a great app and one that is very addictive. One of the co-founders of Delicious Monster was recently hired by Apple, and the kid is only 19! Check out his blog here: http://www.mikematas.com/
yes the barcode feature has been integral from Delicious Library’s inception, but using iSight, somewhat finicky. It will be neat to see this scanning function improve even more
I have this program and it’s incredible. The barcode feature has been present before, but it couldn’t work with the fixed focus of the new built-in iSight. What these guys/gals have done to fix this is an engineering marvel and it just goes to show what an incredible company this truly is. Now that the built-in iSight problem has been fixed here’s hoping they have time to work on their next great product and Delicious Library 2.0.
OK …I see it’s utility. I guess it’s probably great for those who would use it. I personally only own 4 DVD’s (and three were gifts and one was purchased by my wife) since I don’t collect movies. Have no time to hold books up in front of my iSight camera to catalog them since they are in bookshelves where I can see them. Use iTunes to catalog and store all my music and own not a single video game. So..it’s not really an app that I have a use for. I was commenting on the somewhat THIN description of in the MDN story from my personal perspective…
and reacting in part to the rather tortured sentence structure in the lead line of the article..
“Delicious Monster Software today released Delicious Library 1.6, a free upgrade to its MacWorld Eddy, O’Reilly Innovators, and Apple Design award-winning home-library cataloging and sharing application for books, movies, music, and video games.”
But…you were right..I probably shouldn’t have put it the way I did…
sorry..
PR
Well if you get some more DVD’s as gifts, and inherit a huge CD collection, this a really cool piece of software to keep track. It also allows you to input bar codes and it pulls all sorts of info from amazon about the cd or dvd. It also has a tracker to help you remember who you lent your media to.
It’s a real credit to the Mac software market. I’d almost love to see Apple license this and include it with every Mac that has Front Row.
cheers
The value in Delicious Library is in “checking out” books and movies to people from your address book.
I no longer forget someone borrowed a movie or book from me and that is worth the price of admission.
As for having the time to scan all your books and movies, I put a red tag on every shelf. Then I scan all them items on a shelf (and remove the red tag) only when I loan out an item from that shelf. The person I’m loaning the item to is usually very happy to assist. As a bonus, you get to hear them oooh and aaah over OS X and tell them “there is nothing like this for Windows.” As a result, a few people I’ve loaned books and movies to have switched.
I love this software but I wish they included some other features (some found in other products). Features such as web output and “smart list” functions (such as in iTunes). Other than that it is a GREAT product.
I use this software on a regular basis. I’ve scanned in all the volumes in my library (several thousand books) and maintain my catalog using it. It is a wonderful piece of software and it keeps one’s book catalog nice and clean and efficient. It’s easy to check if you own a certain book before you buy one.
One of it’s best features is that it checks with Amazon.com for all bibliographic information, and downloads it PLUS cover photo. You don’t have to type it all in — unless Amazon.com doesn’t have a record of it.
“It’s a real credit to the Mac software market. I’d almost love to see Apple license this and include it with every Mac that has Front Row.”
You do realize one of the guys who created this now works for apple now… right?