Comments on: Delicious Monster

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:57:47 +0000

Gary: there are a number of pieces to this all of which Delicious Monster has sorted out very well.

1. the scanning part and DL allows us Mac users to use our webcams. Not sure if it works with webcams other than iSights but it might.

2. the UPC database. Amazon’s the thing here and DL uses Amazon’s open API to get at all the info stored on each item. Pretty slick idea.

3. The UI of the local collection. DL uses the same UI as many of Apple’s iApps so it’s familiar to Mac users and they can use it immediately. Not sure i’d want to muck with that.

All of that said, I’ll bet there’s something along the lines you’re looking for in the fileMaker Pro world. You should maybe poke around there. And, if you find anything, do let us know back here.

By: gary

gary — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:44:08 +0000

I saw your comments on delicios monster and i was wondering if there is something else out there that allows the sanning of barcodes and then would go into a database so that i could number my CDs and then attach a # to each listing so I could easily find a CD and yet house them by simply numbering each one in sucession and not worrying about sorting them

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:12:22 +0000

Sure, it’s just like any iApp: you have all of your stuff and on the right side you can make numerous sets and put the same book into as many as you like.

I believe you can download a fully functional copy and try this out.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:56:29 +0000

Does this software allow you to create custom categories for the books? And if so, would I have the capability of searching/sorting using these custom categrories?

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 12:21:50 +0000

Christoph… of course, I get the Delicious Monster feed, if/when they do something I’ll hear about it. Thanks.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:18:39 +0000

Thanks for the note, Richard. That’s interesting. I think both Delicious Library and MediaMan are working on several interesting new features which could re-ignite your enthusiasm by letting you do some interesting stuff with your collection once you’ve built it. So keep your eyes open….I think you may end up adding it to your dock again. :-)

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:57:25 +0000

Great, thanks for the info Christoph. The intersting thing is that I got all fired up about this software and now, never use it. I’ve taken it off my dock and rarely even look at it. Not the fault of the software, just that once you’ve got all your stuff in it then what? There’s a limit to how much I want to browse and paw through my stuff. Again, not the fault of the software which is well designed, just the impulsiveness of the buyer (me).

By: Christoph

Christoph — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:25:54 +0000

Richard, David,

there’s a similar piece of software for Windows called MediaMan. It works with all available Amazon stores US, UK, Germany, Japan, France & Canada. And it’s even free! :)

Regards

Christoph

By: David N.

David N. — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:38:34 +0000

I don’t know the details, but they do use UK and German Amazon stores (if I remember correctly) when you are based in Europe. However, those stroes apparently do not have all the info the US store has on bar codes etc. The codes on European products are apparently not the same as those used in the US so the US store cannot provide the needed info either.

david.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:45:18 +0000

Really. I’m surprised as I thought Amazon would be available anywhere on earth. How does DM know where you are? Maybe the CD and DVD thing is a region related issue, and DM needs to know which Amazon database to check. Intersting.