But I’d still like an option to disable this activity so I won’t have to remove the date from future additions. Thus, I was able to delete the date from all 71 items at once. Fortunately, when you highlight multiple items in a collection (all of them, in my case) only the information fields that are identical for the selected items appear in the pane. Consequently, I ended up with 71 additions to my Delicious Library collection, all of them reporting that they were purchased on December 13, 2004. When an item is scanned, the current date is automatically filled in as the date of purchase. Granted, some people may scan in their DVDs the same day they purchase them, but that can’t be assumed. Delicious Library makes a bad assumption, however, in the My Info section. Second, the information pane is splendid, making room for extremely detailed facts about each title-especially if the information is pulled down from Amazon. By the time I increased the thumbnail size enough to make the label text readable, there were only a couple items on the shelf (I don’t have a really wide monitor) and I no longer needed the label to see, at a glance, what the first and last items were. Its problem is that it changes size along with the size of the thumbnails, and the text is unreadable at the smaller settings. What I want to share is not so much nit-picks at this early version as things to keep in mind as you decide whether Delicious Library is for you.įor example, a neat feature of the thumbnail view of a collection is that each shelf has a label that reads, “AAA to BBB” where AAA and BBB are the first words of the leftmost and rightmost titles, respectively, which are sitting on that shelf. I’m confident version 2.0 is going to kick proverbial butt! No doubt the developers are going to take Delicious Library’s features to even more amazing levels. You’ll note that I gave it a Very Nice rating, and don’t forget that this is still a version 1.x release. But do not think that I’m pooh-poohing Delicious Library. What I want to accomplish here is to point out three small issues that other reviews seemed to have overlooked. Other reviews have even touched on the more subtle eye candy, such as the texture that is placed on top of DVD cover art to simulate that unmistakable slightly warped plastic that is so much a part of a physical case.īut I digress. And, of course, that awesome scan feature that turns your iSight into a bar code scanner- check! Greyed-out icons for search hits that are already in your collection-check. Quick link to purchase items not already in your collection-check. Information-packed details downloaded from Amazon, Internet Movie Database, etc.-check. Full-featured interface for managing who borrowed what from you-check. iTunes playlist-like interface for various collections-check. Beautiful display of media cover art-check. Yet, as I prepared to start writing about it, I could truly come up with no description of its outstanding features that hasn’t already been said. Since I don’t have a living room the size of a Blockbuster Video store, a digital version is the best alternative. It’s exactly how I wish I could store my DVDs in real life. With Delicious Library, the bookshelf metaphor (the most blatant eye candy) really works. However, eye candy usually refers to interface elements that are pretty but not necessarily functional. Yes, “eye candy-and lots of it” was at the forefront of my initial opinion. So, I finally got my hands on the application to give it a try and I, like everyone else, was immediately stunned by the “wow” factor. Everyone and their mothers seem to have already reviewed it and everyone largely feels it’s the greatest thing since popcorn was first sold at movies. Admittedly, ATPM is a little late with a review of Delicious Library.
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