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.
Tag Archives: Mac
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.
iPod Stereogram
Now this is a really old technique brought way into the 21st century. In the 1800s, photographers travelled the world creating ‘stereograms,’ pairs of photos mounted on card-stock which appeared three-dimensional when observed through a special viewer. These cards and viewers are quite collectible, and some photographers (like my brother) are enjoying the ease that digital photography provides the steroscopic process. But this guy takes it a step further. No printing required here – just mount your iPod Photos as shown in his diagram, and voila!
Another G5 Powerbook Clue?
An intrepid reader of the British website theregister.co.uk tipped the site off to an interesting bit of code on Apple’s Powerbook product page. Apparently, a 1×1 pixel tracking gif from marketing firm Avenue A is labelled as ‘apple_g5_powerbook.’ A typo, perhaps? Probably, but all other such tracking tags across the apple.com site have the appropriate (and correct) processor and product names. It’s probably just wishful thinking, but we can hope, can’t we?