Delicious Monster's Delicious Library
Of course the library software took some time to
download all the information for each one from Amazon and there were a few that
it couldn't find here or there but overall it was very wicked.
OK, now as I write this mini review about the new
Delicious
Monster software package for Mac OS X called Delicious Library I must
carefully wipe the drool from my mouth after playing with this package for a few
days. I mentioned it was coming about a month ago and
it finally released on November 8th which I purchased
instantly.
So I downloaded & bought it and the bluetooth scanner option. Since I had to wait for the physical shipment of the scanner I went ahead and tried out the iSight scanning option for a few books I had laying around the office and that I got entered. iSight scanning works quite well once you get the hang of it. You have to hold up the bar code and there is a provided B&W window that you can line things up with and it worked pretty flawlessly once I got the rhythm down right.
It quickly did some lookups on Amazon.com and downloaded all the information Amazon had on that book. I'd say so far 99% of the time things are good & data is downloaded.
There is already a v1.0.5 that has fixed a few things and allowed international amazon scanning. It also fixed a bar code bug I discovered once my bluetooth scanner arrived.
From a techy-geeky kind of way the bluetooth scanner thing was so freaking cool. The scanner has some memory in it and I walked into the other room to see if I could reach through a wall why I scanned away. It worked at first but then as I got closer to the hallway in my theater room it lost signal. I didn't notice that however and was scanning away.
I cam back into my office where the iMac G5 sits and noticed it hadn't gotten anything. Thinking I would need to re-scan everything I just did I clicked the button to re-connect the scanner to the library software.
That's when I got the surprise and started drooling.
The thing stored every code in the scanner and then proceeded to download all the scans into the library software and look them all up. I was free to go slap happy with the scanner in the other room and then come back and download it. When the scanner was done downloading it into the software pack it made a little musical beep and off I went again. Of course the library software took some time to download all the information for each one from Amazon and there were a few that it couldn't find here or there but overall it was very wicked.
My only wish is that they would do something like Intervocative Software does with DVD Profiler that I used to use back in my Windows days. They had a user contributed database that would fix the UPC lookup failures by bringing in the multiple UPC barcodes that get put on things as they go through their life on the shelf. But still it's one awesome program and I give it two big thumbs up.
So I downloaded & bought it and the bluetooth scanner option. Since I had to wait for the physical shipment of the scanner I went ahead and tried out the iSight scanning option for a few books I had laying around the office and that I got entered. iSight scanning works quite well once you get the hang of it. You have to hold up the bar code and there is a provided B&W window that you can line things up with and it worked pretty flawlessly once I got the rhythm down right.
It quickly did some lookups on Amazon.com and downloaded all the information Amazon had on that book. I'd say so far 99% of the time things are good & data is downloaded.
There is already a v1.0.5 that has fixed a few things and allowed international amazon scanning. It also fixed a bar code bug I discovered once my bluetooth scanner arrived.
From a techy-geeky kind of way the bluetooth scanner thing was so freaking cool. The scanner has some memory in it and I walked into the other room to see if I could reach through a wall why I scanned away. It worked at first but then as I got closer to the hallway in my theater room it lost signal. I didn't notice that however and was scanning away.
I cam back into my office where the iMac G5 sits and noticed it hadn't gotten anything. Thinking I would need to re-scan everything I just did I clicked the button to re-connect the scanner to the library software.
That's when I got the surprise and started drooling.
The thing stored every code in the scanner and then proceeded to download all the scans into the library software and look them all up. I was free to go slap happy with the scanner in the other room and then come back and download it. When the scanner was done downloading it into the software pack it made a little musical beep and off I went again. Of course the library software took some time to download all the information for each one from Amazon and there were a few that it couldn't find here or there but overall it was very wicked.
My only wish is that they would do something like Intervocative Software does with DVD Profiler that I used to use back in my Windows days. They had a user contributed database that would fix the UPC lookup failures by bringing in the multiple UPC barcodes that get put on things as they go through their life on the shelf. But still it's one awesome program and I give it two big thumbs up.
Posted: Sat - November 20, 2004 at 11:32 AM |
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