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5:51AM

Delicious Library 2.3.3 Review

Each time you use this software you are greeted by a sleek, user-friendly, nice interface. The genius behind the user-interface is truly remarkable. Everything has a purpose and no space is gone to waste. The design and feel of the software is inviting and, most importantly, easy to use!  The amount of software I have come across that is exceedingly confusing is stupid; Delicious Library is far from this.

Delicious Library’s main purpose is to scan barcodes and it does that, amazingly. I’m going to be honest here, not every product is there but there is a vast majority. And if you can’t scan the product, using the iSight, you are looking for you can choose from a number of categories such as Books, Movies, Albums, Software, Videogame, Toy, Gadgets, Tools and Apparel. If you can’t find the product by typing in its name you can create a custom item and fill in the details. The power of this software and the iSight combined is extra-ordinary!

If you like to brag about what you have in your library then easily publish it to the web. You can use iLife iWeb 08/09 or you can use .Mac. You can select the items that you don’t want your viewers to see and one their website it says:

remember to mark private items with our special flag, so you don’t accidentally let your patients know you’re reading Appendectomies for Dummies.

Another good point to make about this software is that it is fast! Some software is very slow because they try to jam-pack everything possible into it where as delicious library has left out the pointless features and because it is very fast there is no limit to how many items you can store in your library, I was up all night scanning my books and games!

If you are looking to sell something, simply scan it to your library and it will find it’s Amazon rating, how much it was worth as retail price and how much it is worth now. I scanned a book that I bought for around £9.99 ($5.00 approx.) and it is now worth 0.46p (0.20c)!

If you want to print your library off then choose from one of the templates, it’s great! The layout is beautiful and the quality of it is great. It look professional, simple and understandable.

There are many other features I could talk about but most of them are only discoverable by you and only you can experience the true power of this software. Do I think that it is worth $40 (£20 approx.)? Absolutely! If you believe in value for money then this is a no brainer! It is worth the money and I would highly recommend that you purchase it

Each time you use this software you are greeted by a sleek, user-friendly, nice interface. The genius behind the user-interface is truly remarkable. Everything has a purpose and no space is gone to waste. The design and feel of the software is inviting and, most importantly, easy to use!  The amount of software I have come across that is exceedingly confusing is stupid; Delicious Library is far from this.

Delicious Library’s main purpose is to scan barcodes and it does that, amazingly. I’m going to be honest here, not every product is there but there is a vast majority. And if you can’t scan the product, using the iSight, you are looking for you can choose from a number of categories such as Books, Movies, Albums, Software, Videogame, Toy, Gadgets, Tools and Apparel. If you can’t find the product by typing in its name you can create a custom item and fill in the details. The power of this software and the iSight combined is extra-ordinary!

If you like to brag about what you have in your library then easily publish it to the web. You can use iLife iWeb 08/09 or you can use .Mac. You can select the items that you don’t want your viewers to see and one their website it says:

remember to mark private items with our special flag, so you don’t accidentally let your patients know you’re reading Appendectomies for Dummies.

Another good point to make about this software is that it is fast! Some software is very slow because they try to jam-pack everything possible into it where as delicious library has left out the pointless features and because it is very fast there is no limit to how many items you can store in your library, I was up all night scanning my books and games!

If you are looking to sell something, simply scan it to your library and it will find it’s Amazon rating, how much it was worth as retail price and how much it is worth now. I scanned a book that I bought for around £9.99 ($5.00 approx.) and it is now worth 0.46p (0.20c)!

If you want to print your library off then choose from one of the templates, it’s great! The layout is beautiful and the quality of it is great. It look professional, simple and understandable.

There are many other features I could talk about, but most of them are only discoverable by you and only you can experience the true power of this software. Do I think that it is worth $40 (£20 approx.)? Absolutely! If you believe in value for money then this is a no brainer! It is worth the money and I would highly recommend that you purchase it.

5:19PM

BetterTouchTool

If you have a Apple Magic Mouse, or have requested one for Christmas, you may be interested in the awesome piece of software I've found. 

BetterTouchTool is software for Mac OSX 10.5 or 10.6 and allows functionality that Apple haven't already added to their Magic Mouse built in software. Developed by Boastr, the software is free to install and allows you to use the pinch, 1,2,3 and 4 finger taps along with a whole other bunch of gestures. It also allows you to tweak the mouse a little more than the normal 'System Preferences' defaults.

I recommend you to download and at least try it. Once you have, comment on this post about your experience and how well (or not) it works for you.

Happy Holidays!

Jonny

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9:07PM

Customize with CandyBar

Those of you who have used Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger know that User Interface customization was typically an easy task and allowed you to make your Mac more your own. However, the software that users used to make these graphic changes in the past no longer works on Leopard and above. But have no fear! Candy Bar saves the day with a drag and drop interface to easily change any icon from a standard application icon to a system or volume icon. For just $29, Cnady Bar allows you to use free icon packs from The Iconfactory to change things up a little. Candy Bar also allows the customization of the dock. You can replace the background texture, "landing strip" seperator, lights and arrows and even convert the dock back to the old 2 dimensional version. Candy Bar is a must have for any Mac geek with a need for a personalized touch.

Download a 15 day trial of Candy Bar free from Panic Software and check out itsthurber.com for more reviews and Vlogs from me.

2:36PM

Google Earth, Google Universe, Google Street View, Google...

Earth lite? I was using Google Earth the other day and complained to about the slow loading time and how unnecessary it was to have the software, when you can just go to the Google Maps website and you can see (nearly) the whole world just as if you were standing in a street. 

Google? Why don't you create the software and make Earth more complex for users who need to do more than look around places etc?

Leave a comment on your thoughts

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12:47PM

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft has spoken, so it is written. The next Mac version of Microsoft Office is to be released in late 2010, and it will replace Entourage with Outlook. What’s the point in this switch? Outlook is expected to have more support for Exchange features which does matter if you work in one of the thousands of businesses that uses Exchange. It’s great that Microsoft concerns itself with petty Mac users, but does this have anything to do with the announcement that Mail will have Exchange support in Snow Leopard? Ironic, don’t you think?

 

Other news is there will be Visual Basic support and a new “business addition” of Office. Along with that, there are rumors that Microsoft’s new partnership with Nokia might be leading to a version of Microsoft Office for mobile phones. Microsoft refuses to share any juicy details but only time will tell what they have in store. I don’t know, but if the Zune HD sells well, maybe we’ll be looking at a Zune Mobile.

 

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