It's that we have enough money to keep doing this, and to expand it." Matas said the first week's sales of Delicious Library generated enough revenue to pay salary for the previous seven months. One of the software's niftiest features is its ability to use a video camera to read a product's bar code, which is used to fetch product details from the net.
Living on savings and fueled by coffee, they banged out the software in seven months.ĭelicious Library won an "innovators award" from O'Reilly & Associates. Matas and Shipley launched the company last year. They hang out here all day and they often get lunch and dinner here. Older Macs, however, may suffer from some performance issues."Zoka is pretty much their office," said Reid Hickman, a Zoka barista.
Thanks to its elegant interface and digital camera support, entering and organizing items is a breeze, plus Spotlight and the included widget give you ways to search your library outside of the application. If you have a processor that runs below a gigahertz, or you donit have at least a gigabyte of RAM, you may see some sluggish performance.ĭelicious Library is an easy to use all-in-one library management application. Also, DL uses quite a bit of your Macis horse power to do its thing. There is talk, however, that we may see that feature in a future version. So whatis not to like? If you collect comic books, you canit add them to DLis database. It also comes with a Dashboard widget you can use to search your library database. That way I can check to see whatis lent out even when DL isnit running. I took advantage of that by creating a Smart Folder in the Finder that displays all of my borrowed items. Borrowed items get a visible yellow "Out" tag that changes to red when an item is over due. Return due dates are automatically set seven days out, but you can change them to suit your needs. Since it is Address Book-compatible, you can simply drag a contact onto DLis Borrowers list, and then drag lent items onto their name. You can even add your own notes that will appear here, too.Ī library database isnit much use if you donit know where the items you lend out are. When you select an item on a shelf, you can see additional information like publisher or release label, release date, retail price and current value, product descriptions, and more. Thereis a reason categories are called "shelves:" Thatis exactly how the graphic interface represents them, and viewing your libraries on the virtual shelves makes it easy to keep track of your stuff.
You can add your own shelves, and then populate them by dragging items from the default shelves into them.
This is handy if you have large libraries that you donit want to carry to your computer.īy default, the items DL manages for you are broken into Books, Movies, Music, and Games categories - or in DL terms, shelves.
If your latest library addition isnit in Amazonis database, you can manually enter its information.ĭelicious Monster also offers a portable barcode scanner you can use to scan multiple items and then add to Dl all at once. If you donit have a camera, you can enter some information about the product, like titles or ISBN codes, and DL will track down the item for you. Delicious Library makes it easy to track your libraries.