Delicious Monster previews Library 2 web export

This is a bit of a plug, but you may consider checking out this app I'm writing, http://lifeshelf.net. It's in active development, so it's a little bumpy at times, but new features are being added all the time, so hopefully that's a plus. Also, it's free. Also, what with it being web-based, web-export is built in, naturally.

artifex,

I am also running a G4 Mini with 1GB of RAM and DL is sometimes unusable on it. Performance is horrible thanks to the eye candy. I am in the same position as you, pay for Leopard and pay for DL2.

If I have to throw out some money it will probably only be $18 on DVDpedia.

I'd love for DL2 to be truly useful rather than just pretty. It has a couple awesome things going for it. The iSight scanning is very, very cool. And it's pretty. Honestly I don't think it's a great UI though, but it looks pretty.

As to the HTML export, I personally think my hack is a little better. It's DeliciWeb with a couple modifications. I've not done much to improve it as I'm not much of a developer. But I think it emulates DL better than DM emulates DL with their preview.

http://teamoverkill.com/LD/DVD/movies.html

I've also been disappointed with DL. It was the killer app that helped me cross the line and finally buy my first Mac, a G4 Mini. But, as I'm sure you've noticed, adding new titles gets very unwieldy once you have a few hundred titles in it. The G4 Mini maxes at a gigabyte of RAM, but it was current hardware when DL was for sale. Later, the company blogged about it and said they were revamping the database system for the next version. But the next version will require Leopard, and also require a paid update. So I feel let down.

@8, @12: There's a bunch of library type apps, don't suggest just one:
http://www.themacpak.com/Librarian-Pro_p_0-37.html
The Collectorz one (i can only enter 3 urls)
Even a free one:
http://books.aetherial.net/wordpress/

I'm sure there's more because I've seen 'em before even though I didn't run across them in this brief search, I am still wondering if an audience exists for a site that lists "programs similar to this popular one", using categories and tags. IUseThis seems ok so far;
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/booxter

So really, I don't know if I want to buy 4 separate pedias for each type of media when many apps support them all.

I am fairly unimpressed with the actual features of DL. I paid my money and I regret it. DVDpedia looks better, feature-wise to me. DL is damn sexy, but that's about it. It lacks some of the most basic features one would want, like HTML export. Looks like it's coming, and I'll hold judgment on the slow to release next version. Of course, I'll have to upgrade to Leopard to try it out.

Oh well, DM makes it difficult to do business with them, but they like their small set of customers.

I'm very excited about DL2 -- I have about 1500 DVDs that need importing (I tried to do it last month when I was alphabetizing/moving all my TV DVDs to their new shelving, but it seriously got too frustrating with the eyesight barcode detection only working may 1/3 of the time and my living room was full of stacks of media worth more than my car, plus my mom was over and leaning over my shoulder and so I said "screw it") and cataloging for insurance purposes (I have a basic title list but I'd like to have the UPC). Depending on how well the database works, DL2 or the *pedias will hopefully eventually catalog every DVD, music CD and non-textbook I own -- and maybe my current-gen video games too (all my retro games are in my parent's basement in plastic bins or with a now married ex-boyfriend who I'm afraid to call because his wife hates me - but he has my NES, SNES and like half my games and the NES was totally restored right before I let him borrow it like 4 years ago). Organization can be so sexy.

Tom -- in addition to Bookpedia from Bruji, I also recommend checking out Readerware:

http://www.readerware.com/

It's not much on the shiny pretty, but it does the job very well including support for a score of data sources.

DigitalFury (Post 8),

Yep, they've had the web export function for ages too (and iPhone for a few months - which David C. also mentioned DL would have).

But I guess it depends if you need something functional or something pretty to look at.

Anyone notice the items were not in alpha order?

IE is damn important. A good designer deals with the errors and anomalities of IE, otherwise he loses 80% of his/her audience.


In Camino the site renders OK but it takes ages to load with. The interface is not navigable at all. It works on the desktop client but the metaphore of bookshelf works less in a browser I think. Also when I
click on a book the pointer turns into a hand but there is no link.
All I want to say this is a usability nightmare :-)

The export to isolated HTML is a bit odd in this socially connected web. I want export to libraryanything or facebook and last.fm....

:-) Hendrik