But as it is, I’d be stuck learning Apple’s iSight API, the intricacies of barcodes, and probably Objective-C/Cocoa.
If it were, I’d implement that Google Book share.
I really wish Delicious Library was open source. I wouldn’t have thought that was possible before discovering this program. Not only does it make entering ISBNs easy, it makes it exciting.
Delicious library for mac os#
Delicious Library turns this problem completely on its head. Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies. I can’t imagine typing every single ISBN of all my hundreds of books onto a computer, let alone convincing other people to do it. The problem with this idea is that data entry is painful. Wouldn’t it be cool if every Google employee made a list of the books they owned and were willing to share? I doubt there’s any library that could beat the Google workforce in sci-fi or CS literature. The only downside is that it’s a limited demo, and the full application costs an outrageous $40.īefore I discovered the San Jose library, I had an idea for a 20% project at Google. Some books have smaller-than-normal ISBN barcodes, and these gave it trouble. The scanning was accurate whenever it worked, which was about 90% of the time. This is so spectacularly cool that it just must be tried. Just put wave a book in front of the screen and DL fills in all the details.
It’s one of those brilliantly simple ideas that I wish I’d thought of first.ĭelicious Library turns your MacBook’s iSight camera into a barcode scanner. Import all your stuff onto your digital shelves. The OS X app was updated today to version 3.0. Catalog your books, movies, music, software, toys, tools, electronics, & video games. I’ve used plenty of them, (Adium, Transmit, VLC, Firefox, Thunderbird) but there was one app I’d never heard of that especially stood out to me. Delicious Monster is known for Delicious Library, a comprehensive inventory app that lets you track items from every nook and cranny of your life. Posted in books, programming, reviews at 12:25 am by danvkĮarlier today, Ars linked over to a great list of Mac applications that make switching worthwhile.
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