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Macworld Expo: Delicious Monster's Wil Shipley
His flagship application gave its name to an entire movement of graphical sophistication among Mac apps, so it should be no surprise that Wil Shipley's Delicious Monster booth at Macworld Expo carries Delicious Library's recognizable UI into the real world. Special care was taken to get bookshelves that matched the wood grain, the products on the shelves look unremarkably like themselves, and the leaves at the top of the booth are dead ringers for the ones on the DM site. The overall effect is a bit disconcerting, but still enjoyable.
We took a few minutes to discuss the booth design with one of the "Delicious Librarians," then talked to Wil about his approach to an iPhone version of Delicious Library and his thoughts on the development challenges he faced in creating DL2. Videos in the second half of the post.
Delicious Monster in Charge Wil Shipley.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
alf said 7:57PM on 1-07-2009
where's the code to buy it for $30 off the dm site?
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Brian Peat said 8:42PM on 1-07-2009
Someone's been to IKEA.
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Joseph said 2:50PM on 1-08-2009
Looks like my son's bedroom. Jungle theme. Too bad they don't have Sawyer's Daisy lights. Those really complete the look.
Nicolas Webb said 9:22PM on 1-07-2009
You purchase it directly from the software. Just download the trial off of the website (I had tried this out about 2 months ago and hadn't bought it yet) and go to Library -> Delicious Licensor. It shows up as $30.
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bor said 9:30PM on 1-07-2009
Hmm, I thought DL gave its name to an entire movement of software with little function to back up pretty-but-nonstandard UIs.
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Kai Cherry said 10:09PM on 1-07-2009
*heheheheheheheheheh*
-K
Rudy said 10:57PM on 1-07-2009
i really want it, but i could never justify its price.
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LD said 11:10PM on 1-07-2009
Sweet Christ, has no one at TUAW used the Pedias? Their iSight scanning is just as good as DL2.
I'm so sick of TUAW sucking Shipley's delicious cock. There is other (and better) software out there, TUAW just chooses not to cover it.
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milkmage said 11:22PM on 1-07-2009
the Pedias are not worth twice the price (if you get all 4).
you don't like TUAW's coverage? start your own blog.
LD said 11:25PM on 1-07-2009
Well, my friend, the Pedias cost $49 if you buy all of them, or $39 for 3. Better yet, for me I only want to catalog DVDs, so that only costs $18.
I think TUAW's coverage is lacking, a lot. They have mentioned the Pedias maybe twice in their history, no exaggeration.
mentalsticks said 5:25AM on 1-08-2009
@Milkmage: what's wrong with criticism? "If you don't like national socialism, just don't go to Germany"?
If you don't like criticism, don't read the bloody comments. Moron.
Jo Jo the Dancer said 12:36PM on 1-08-2009
@mentalsticks
Well said retort! Comments are by definition for critique and opinion. If you don't like them, don't read them! There are many sites where I do not (MDN if you're with me).
That being said, I think DL is slow and aggravating for the sophisticated collector. The pedias are maybe less refined aesthetically, but provide better control with a better price. Whether TUAW favors this developer is irrelevant, I cull my information from many sources.
Maple said 11:28PM on 1-07-2009
Tried the download, grabbed a book off my shelf, Biology by Jane B. Reece, Neil A. Campbell (8th Ed), typed in the ISBN code and nada, tried all sorts of variations, with and without hyphens, with and without the tag ISBN, and still nothing, copy and paste ISBN-13:978-0-8053-6844-4 into Google and it's identified right away.
Grab another to try the bar code, no go just lots of errors, grab a third bang got it, and one more for luck ................and eventually beeps and gives me the wrong book, try again and the wrong book, and again... After what seemed like 5 min. of finagling it finally got the right book.
Not sure it would work for older books without barcodes, and older ISBNs — I didn't have any luck anyway.
Very cool concept and it may work for some, but alas it just seemed not to be for me... I will eagerly await version 3.
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Jeff said 11:32PM on 1-07-2009
Was it me or was it fun just talking to the booth girls enough be interested in DM
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Galley said 8:51AM on 1-08-2009
I think Delicious Terry may have appeared briefly in the second video.
Your Internal Monologue said 1:55AM on 1-08-2009
Shipley --
We are still waiting for you to bring back the 3 column view to DL2.
That's right we are everywhere.
Muahahaha!
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roeland.vanlembergen said 5:46AM on 1-08-2009
I like the Pedias more. Ok, they don't have that fancy but useless bookshelf view, but who cares. They are faster and more useful for large collections. Oh and barcode scanning works perfectly.
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Scott said 9:51AM on 1-08-2009
Another vote for the Pedias. I've never understood the TUAW fascination with this silly app. Cutesy wooden bookshelves, utterly incapable of handling large collections. I have over 1500 DVDs in DVDpedia and it's as fast as when I had 100. The interface is as clean and as customizable as iTunes used to be a few versions back. Plus it's updated every month or two, the programmers are in communication nearly daily on the forums, and bug fixes occur literally overnight in some cases. Yet Shipley is seen as some kind of programming god for marketing his overpriced, cutesy, unscalable program, which gets updated less often than OS X at this point.
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DH said 10:25AM on 1-08-2009
I used to use the 'Pedias but i changed over to Delicious Library a year or so ago and have no complaints at all. A minor hiccup with the MobileMe integration was quickly patched once the problem was successfully recreated. The scanning works perfectly which was more than could be said for the 'Pedia apps which after a particular update suddenly couldn't focus on bar-codes using my iSight camera. Typing in hundreds of bar-codes manually isn't fun.
I guess a lot of it is down to personal taste. I like to see everything nice and neat and the same applies to my music collection in iTunes. When you have an operating system that's as graphical as OSX where's the harm in harnessing that look and feel?
I know from personal experience that certain clients aren't interested in such things and would be quite happy with every field on one screen and no pictures to get in the way or waste space ("why should i have to look up at the screen"). If that's how you feel, get something else otherwise be quiet.
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Michael Rose said 11:38AM on 1-08-2009
I posted about the 'pedias in September, when PocketPedia came out. I like those apps quite a bit, although for day-to-day cataloging I personally use Readerware (talk about functionality trumping UI -- it's probably the ugliest application on my Mac).
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/28/pocketpedia-takes-your-media-collections-onto-your-iphone/
This post, however, is about a company (DM) that's exhibiting at Macworld; Bruji is not at the show. LD's obnoxious and obscene comment aside, if there are other media catalog vendors at Macworld Expo you'd like us to track down, please raise a hand.
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