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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 1.5. Search though all of your library data using the Spotlight menu and enjoy anytime access to your entire collection with the brand new Delicious Library Dashboard widget.
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 1.5. Search though all of your library data using the Spotlight menu and enjoy anytime access to your entire collection with the brand new Delicious Library Dashboard widget.
What's new in this version:
- There is a free Delicious Library iPhone app for viewing your collection on-the-go (without needing a network connection).
- When you first run Delicious Library 2.1 you'll be prompted to download the iPhone app, if you have an iPhone.
- Vertical Details Pane
- Our long national nightmare is finally over, and details are vertical again (like in version one), instead of horizontal.
- Lots of layout changes because of this. Rather than merely going back to version one's look, I've tried to improve on it.
- We now allow copying / pasting the raw cover image from the details pane using standard copy menu item. (Just click on image first.)
- File Format Change
- Some fields have been added to make syncing and publishing your collection faster in the future, but this requires a one-time upgrade when you first launch version 2.1.
- This upgrade may take a long time. Sorry.
- Your new file will NOT work with 2.0, but a backup of your 2.0 data is made in the folder Library / Application Support / Delicious Library 2 - you can use that if you want to go back for some reason.
- If you launch Delicious Library after upgrading, and get a message to the effect of "the model file can't be used with the data file," that means you're accidentally running an your old 2.0 version, not 2.1. You probably don't want to leave Delicious Library 2.0.7 on your system after going to 2.1.
- Scanning
- Scanning with your web cam, our Bluetooth scanner, or a USB scanner has been enhanced so you can select different kinds of shelves and scan new or existing items and the functionality you might expect now actually works:
- If you select a custom shelf in your collection and scan a new or existing item, the item will be created if needed, then added to the selected shelf.
- If you select a friend's shelf and scan a new or existing item, the item will be created if needed and then loaned to the friend. (If you have multiple copies of the same item already in your library, only the first one that hasn't already been loaned out will be lent.)
- If you select one of your shelves (or your main library) and scan an existing item that has been loaned out, the item will be checked-in. (If you have multiple copies of the same item in your library, only the last one on your shelf that has been loaned out will be checked-in.)
- 'Number in Series' property is now present for all media types.
- Worked around a Logitech mouse driver bug - people who installed the Logitech mouse driver found that many items would draw as their generic types instead of specific types (eg, Nintendo video games would draw as DVDs instead of in Nintendo boxes). Logitech illegally injects their code into ALL running programs in their current software, and actually messes up other people's code.
- Fixed a very rare bug we'd fail to scan items that had two different keywords in their subtitles that we recognized, like "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Widescreen & Full Screen Edition)"
- Fixed a bug where Backups were sometimes truncated when they were written out, so they couldn't be read in again. (Sorry!)
- iPod (classic) syncing
- iPods (non-touch) are now listed under the new "DEVICES" header shelf.
- iPods present themselves like iPods do in iTunes, for syncing libraries.
- iPods now delete the library out of their "Notes" directory if you set them to no longer sync.
- iPods won't needlessly sync as often if you leave them plugged in.
- iPods won't ever be duplicated (rare bug).
- Only write out the first 1,000 items to the iPod, since iPods are hard-wired by Apple to never display more than 1,000 notes, and it just slows us down to write, like, 7,000 items every time a single one changes.
- Pop up a HUD when updating the iPod's contents.
- UNICODE support in Searches
- Searches are now encoded correctly when searching for items by keywords in non-English alphabets, including Japanese (finally), German, and French. It turns out there's no real standard for these searches, but I finally figured out what Amazon does.
- 'Search for Cover Art' now works for items with special characters in their names (eg, "Harold & Kumar").
- Translations
- Added a first Korean localization.
- Fixed some translations from user suggestions.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
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Upgrading to new version destroyed it! - Version: 2.3, 10/21/2009 10:48PM PST
(1 of 3 users found this comment useful)
MacOO7
I just upgraded to the new version from v. 2.1.1, which worked fine, and now all it does is crash. I've also used Time Machine to restore the older version that worked and even that crashes no matter how many times I trash the preferences. This is not good as now I have no application and I'm out the purchase price. :-(
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- I did!
Phones home ... - Version: 2.2, 9/1/2009 11:36PM PST
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atritium
Delicious LIbrary V2 "phones home" on start-up. It wants to connect to the company for some reason, presumably logging, but who knows: Transferring data about you, your system, your database, pass along files it looks at on your system, etc.
If the connection is prevented, the software doesn't work thereafter. So it appears not to be just a check for updates. They want to mandate/force the connection.
Inquiries to the company get only an automated response with the latest story about how tiny they are and how overwhelmed they are. In four years, I've gotten only 1 meaningful response to 6 inquiries (a refund for DL2 because of the privacy issue, as I reverted to DL1).
DL version 1 did not phone home and only connected to amazon for look-ups.
Database software that initiates connections to the manufacturer's site without (normal) user knowledge should be considered DOA. The potential for mischief is extremely high.
If the connection is prevented, the software doesn't work thereafter. So it appears not to be just a check for updates. They want to mandate/force the connection.
Inquiries to the company get only an automated response with the latest story about how tiny they are and how overwhelmed they are. In four years, I've gotten only 1 meaningful response to 6 inquiries (a refund for DL2 because of the privacy issue, as I reverted to DL1).
DL version 1 did not phone home and only connected to amazon for look-ups.
Database software that initiates connections to the manufacturer's site without (normal) user knowledge should be considered DOA. The potential for mischief is extremely high.
If you like the iPhone app, DO NOT upgrade to 2.2 - Version: 2.2, 8/12/2009 07:38AM PST
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gdcdev_dotmac
Remember when amazon forced them to delete the App for the iTunes App store? Well, now this update removes it from your iPhone.
I love this company and their product, but I will not allow them, or anyone, to remove software from my iPhone without my permission.
I won't but from Amazon now because of this. The only voice they listen to is $$, so I won't give them any more of mine.
I love this company and their product, but I will not allow them, or anyone, to remove software from my iPhone without my permission.
I won't but from Amazon now because of this. The only voice they listen to is $$, so I won't give them any more of mine.
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