tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92698812009-06-02T09:22:50.799-07:00Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-54059925583337463822009-04-07T10:57:00.000-07:002009-04-14T13:14:03.353-07:00

Our iPhone application is in its final stages of production, and we are going to need some beta testers for it. Don't worry if you've never beta tested an application before, what we need is real users who are willing to spend some quality time using our app. We won't be able to give everybody copies of the application, so I'm putting together a small list of people who are enthusiastic about

Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03649301923925576836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-84290737136745815662008-12-27T23:56:00.000-08:002008-12-28T19:36:01.047-08:00

Ah, December! As most of us are winding down from the holiday season, we here at Delicious Monster are gearing up for the biggest holiday of them all: Macworld Conference & Expo (Jan 5-9). We've chosen quite a clever theme for our booth this year: Delicious Library (like, an *actual* library-- get it?). Packed with shelves, books, a team of Delicious Librarians, and a handful of other Library-ish

Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03649301923925576836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-62390886960420898262008-12-20T22:51:00.000-08:002008-12-21T00:25:37.365-08:00

• It's on sale for $30 (that's 25% off)!• You don't have to wrap it. Saves paper, saves money, saves time!• Trust me, everyone already has a scarf.• You don't have to ship it. No waiting in line at the post office, and no paying $20 to have it sent to your grandma in Tennessee.• It doesn't take up any space, so she won't secretly resent you for cluttering her house with more stuff.• It's

Jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03649301923925576836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-90500326555854044562008-09-01T19:02:00.000-07:002008-09-01T19:08:11.203-07:00

The big changes in this release are mostly around publishing and subscribing to friends' libraries, with some publishing methods being re-written from scratch, and every method being tweaked in some way. As well, a common issue where it would appear Delicious Library 2 is being extremely slow when in fact it was loading a friend's collection from the internet (often unbeknownst to the owner!) has

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-13171782279747613592008-08-27T18:05:00.000-07:002008-08-30T03:00:35.940-07:00

I need my beta releases of Delicious Library 2 to be tested, for serious; otherwise I might miss things I've broken when I was fixing other things, and put out a general release that has new bugs in it in addition to the fixes. Nobody likes that.I've never had much luck with full-time paid testers. I'd happily go this route if I thought it'd work, but, honestly, in 25 years of writing software,

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-68728337967221856332008-07-26T05:15:00.000-07:002008-07-26T05:29:23.673-07:00

As of July 15 Terry managed to get caught up with all our support mail, which was a Herculean achievement. We'd received about 35,000 e-mails in the two months since Delicious Library 2 was launched, and Terry sorted through most of them herself. (We respond to every request for help, but for bug reports we usually file them without a response.) Sure, a lot of that was spam, but a LOT of it

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-30109763293631087822008-05-27T03:52:00.000-07:002008-05-27T04:12:33.398-07:00

We've been working on Delicious Library 2 since November of 2004, with six months out to do internationalization of Delicious Library 1.5, and four or so months to rewrite iSight scanning for internal iSights in Delicious Library 1.6 . Delicious Library 1.0 only took seven months to write, so, obviously, this one was a lot harder.There are over a hundred new features in 2, and hundreds more bug

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-17255370986695495042008-02-18T21:59:00.000-08:002008-02-18T22:03:51.194-08:00

A week or so ago Wil gave me a generous time budget and one simple mission: solicit localizations in as many languages as possible, no matter how underrepresented they are in our user base. I pondered the wisdom in those words for a while, then banged out a post on my indelicately-named blog.The gist of it was this: universities and other organizations trying to preserve pre-colonial languages

Mike Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-77193571789738344972008-02-01T15:25:00.000-08:002008-02-01T15:29:12.519-08:00

Starting Thursday, January 31, two of our host machine lost internet access. The DSL people are working on this, but I am told it may take from five to seven(!) days.Our website is up but our store is down, so you cannot buy Delicious Library until the DSL is restored. We also are not able to read or answer support mail right now, but we're hoping to come up with an early workaround for getting

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-5594246870612084722008-01-13T23:58:00.000-08:002008-01-14T00:21:01.750-08:00

I wrote a semi-famous web comic creator recently, after reading his strip for years. I'd written him a couple years ago, telling him I liked the strip, but, I said in this latest message, I felt his strip had lost its heart recently, and I told him specifically what it was that I thought caused the change.I ended with this:I'm sorry to just write to you and complain -- I know you put a huge

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-2213254073213885412008-01-12T18:33:00.000-08:002008-01-13T02:39:59.607-08:00

On Friday, January 11, at about midnight, the machine at Covad Networks / Qwest which provides service to a great hunk of Seattle went down. As of Saturday, January 12, at 6:34PM, it is still not up. This machine provides the internet link to our store, but not our main website.This means you can download our software and view our website, but you can't buy our software for a few hours.Covad's

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-19358280156089947552007-12-20T17:39:00.000-08:002007-12-20T18:04:04.564-08:00

As you might have guessed after we shipped Delicious Library, we've been working on Delicious Library 2. Shocking, I know.We've had some nice previews on Theocacoa, Ars Technica, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and, of course, Apple.We're working our butts off on version 2 ever since we shipped version 1, but there have been delays - first off, because we had two very major free updates to version 1

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-32181045412213925922007-12-13T18:16:00.000-08:002007-12-13T18:31:38.059-08:00

Would you sell your pants in the name of charity?For the third year in a row we had the honor (well, actually, we paid) of attending the annual Child’s Play Charity Dinner Auction, hosted by Penny Arcade’s crowd-pleasing yet surprisingly shy Gabe and Tycho. The night was a success from a fundraising standpoint, raising over $225,000 to buy toys for sick kids! (Seriously, if they could find a way

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-4882756734053653262007-10-27T00:44:00.000-07:002007-10-27T00:48:53.922-07:00

Delicious Library 1.6.6 (the current version) is compatible with Leopard, but it can expose a bug in Leopard for some users (apparently only on PowerPC machines). After upgrading a machine from Tiger to Leopard, Delicious Library (and, for that matter, other applications) may crash on start up because of a Leopard bug in reading your favorite Bluetooth devices. Fortunately, the fix is simple,

Mike Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-16486279233268097542007-01-04T17:43:00.000-08:002007-01-04T18:04:53.092-08:00

It's hard to post in this blog because we don't want to waste our customers' time and goodwill with lots of blah blah blah -- what's important enough to say here? How do we phrase it? Should we be friendly or businesslike? Who should post stuff?But, eventually stuff builds up, and it needs sayin'. So here we are.First off: Thank you. Seriously. Thanks. You've bought our software and recommended

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1150417623481586242006-06-15T17:04:00.000-07:002006-06-15T17:58:52.063-07:00

You know we love a good meme here at Delicious Monster, so we thought we would quell the cries (yes, all three of you) by posting our conversion rates for Delicious Library:Library Conversion Rates20056.02%Last 30 Days7.67%It's interesting to see that the conversion rate has actually been higher lately, as opposed to back when we were getting scads of press. We are chalking this up to more sales

Lucas Newmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1148017928462385712006-05-18T22:50:00.000-07:002006-05-18T22:52:08.480-07:00

So, we have this blog to announce things and share our thoughts, and we have email for one-on-one questions and comments, but it occurred to us we needed something a little more community-interactive. So, we asked our good mates at MacNN to host an official forum for us.Check it out.

Mike Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1147807893789166162006-05-16T12:14:00.000-07:002006-05-18T01:31:55.723-07:00

What's better than a brand new Apple MacBook? A new MacBook with Delicious Library, of course!Delicious Library works perfectly with the built-in iSight camera in the new Intel-based MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac. The iSight acts as a barcode scanner inside Delicious Library, making the easiest to catalogue all your media -- we studied algorithms developed by astronomers to refocus blurry

Lucas Newmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1137274660496431312006-01-14T10:00:00.000-08:002006-01-14T20:49:28.913-08:00

We're back from a great week at Macworld Expo. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! We're really happy that we've been able to let even more people know about Delicious Library and we're super excited about what we're working on for this year.Delicious Monster was featured in the Seattle PI yesterday. It's a good insight into what we're about, what we've been been up to lately, and where

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1135903077980506882005-12-29T16:00:00.000-08:002006-01-06T16:30:51.190-08:00

Join Delicious Monster in San Francisco for Macworld Expo, January 10-13! We'll be showing off Delicious Library all week at booth #710.For those of you who will be in the area, but don't have a way in yet, we have an unlimited number of free exhibition passes that we can give away. If you want a free pass (does not include keynote or sessions), write us at freepass@delicious-monster.com. We'll

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1134993362671646982005-12-19T14:00:00.000-08:002005-12-19T22:54:05.906-08:00

Macworld Magazine has just announced the winners of their 21st Annual Editors' Choice Awards and we're happy to report that Delicious Library is among the winners.Praising it as a "Top Productivity Booster" for the 2005 year, Macworld editors said Delicious Library makes it "a breeze to catalog all your stuff."Read the full Macworld Editors' Choice Award

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1131339732759332592005-11-06T21:00:00.000-08:002005-12-19T16:22:35.083-08:00

Everyone knows Delicious Library is a great way to catalog your DVD collection, but were you aware it's also a great way to pick which movie to watch?You can create shelves in Delicious Library as a permanent way to categorize items, but they can also be great and easy way to decide on a movie.To add a shelf, press:To begin the process of elimination, add a new shelf and drag all of your movies

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1129931844773717792005-10-21T14:45:00.000-07:002005-10-21T15:07:36.643-07:00

We've just unveiled a brand new Support knowledge base that makes it even easier to get answers to your questions about Delicious Library. Now you can view top questions, search for information, find related articles, and, most importantly, give us feedback - there's a rating control on every page so that you can tell us what we're doing well or what we could be doing better.Combined with

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1128233267397507212005-10-01T23:04:00.000-07:002005-10-21T14:45:14.926-07:00

Wil Shipley, the co-founder of and programmer for Delicious Monster, will be interview by Cocoa Radio soon, and if you want to ask a big question, here's your chance to hear the answer instead of, say, reading it, which is what you'd get if you sent us mail.Note that we probably won't be answering support questions on the show, so if your question is, like, "Hey, will you guys allow me to catalog

Wil Shipleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429428424208378747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9269881.post-1127214492391770712005-09-20T04:00:00.000-07:002005-10-13T14:49:42.093-07:00

Delicious Library is an amazing way to catalog your book, movies, music, and video games -- but once you've assembled your collection and loaned out items to friends, the last thing you want to worry about is dropping your laptop, having your computer stolen, or losing everything because of hard drive issues.Luckily, combatting data loss is easy! By backing up your data monthly, weekly or even

Drew Hamlinnoreply@blogger.com