Seattle NBC Affiliate KING-5 visited Delicious Monster HQ (the Zoka coffee shop) recently. Mike Matas posted the 90-second Quicktime — it’s a nice promo for the boys from DM. Now if I can only find some time to scan all my stuff. Trouble is, my Wi-Fi gets weak in the back room of my house where all my books are. So I’m gonna have to methodically cart them to the office at the front. A small price to pay to fill my library though. My earlier posts on Delicious Monster here and here.
Category Archives: technology
The RSS Challenge
Lots of interesting things happening in the RSS space. MediaPost Daily (free registration required) has an interesting run-down on the anxiety level among mostly ad-sponsored publishers concerned that the pressure to deploy RSS feeds could eat into their bottom line. MediaMusings talks about one solution – customized, branded RSS readers like C|net’s Newsburst. I’ve fooled around with the C|Net application, and the interface/organization of items doesn’t thrill me. It’s still beta, and I’ll continue to fool around with it. But for my true RSS fix, I’ll continue to stick with zFeeder for now.
Delicious Library gets more Kudos
As I mentioned earlier, Delicious Library ($39.95 for OSX from the minds at Delicious Monster) is a great application for you obsessive compulsive types out there with big media collections and an iSight camera. This app uses a very Mac-like interface to organize the books, games, CDs and DVDs you own onto virtual ‘bookshelves’. And by the way – it turns your iSight into a bar-code scanner, and looks up your stuff to fill your library. Anyway, a very good blog called 43 Folders has reviewed the app and started an interesting conversation about it. Several interesting tidbits therein, including someone mentioning that an iTunes to Delicious Library plugin is under development. A life saver! I bought it a few weeks ago, and I’m slowly scanning my collection. Nice way to remind yourself that it’s been a while since you’ve watched The Fifth Element, and to know that your deadbeat friend borrowed it in 2002 and still hasn’t returned it.
Isometric Screenshots
Interesting project here. This project by artist Jon Haddock recreates important historical moments (and a few bits of movie magic) as isometric 2-D images like you’d see in older computer games. He does extensive research to ‘re-create’ the scenes. Interesting. Gallery here. Tutorial on creating one of the images here.