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Post #184,350 by SpiceWare 11/17/04 2:22:10 PM Reply	I like it I scanned a bunch of items using the iSight, it worked pretty well. Two newly released PS2 did not make a hit, though the older PS2 games I tried worked fine. Books, Mac software, CDs and DVDs all went in without a hitch. [link\|http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/delicious-library.ars\|Ars Technica] has a surprisingly Mac informed review of it(considering they "serve the PC Enthusiast".) Just as physical packaging makes an important first impression for hardware, so too can downloadable software packaging be elevated from utilitarian to a delight. On Mac OS X, the first test of quality downloadable software is this: does it come as a disk image, or is it compressed or packaged using some other standard? While StuffIt, zip, and even tar and friends are all technically compatible with Mac OS X, disk images combine the best features of all of them and have the nicest user experience. ... So let's see how Delicious Library stacks up. First, here's the disk image itself, after being mounted. [image\|http://arstechnica.com/Media/2004/11/5/disk-image-icon.jpg\|\|Disk image icon\|183\|183] Yes, they've even customized the volume icon: a wood-grain theme with the clever Delicious Monster logo branded onto it. The disk opens to reveal a continuation of the theme. [image\|http://arstechnica.com/Media/2004/11/5/disk-image.jpg\|\|Disk image\|404\|546] As is customary, the background image helpfully includes the "installation instructions" (if you can even call them that). I'm pointing these things out not because Delicious Monster is unique among Mac developers in the quality of their artwork and their attention to detail, but because they aren't unique. ... Windows users, think about what your typical download and installation experience is like. How many dialogs are you presented with? What do the file names and icons look like? Do you have to run an installer? What kind of manual clean-up is required afterwards? Linux users, when you look at the carefully laid out disk image contents in the screenshot and links above, think about how far "desktop Linux" has to come before it can even begin to think about details like how single-icon drag-installed applications are arranged in their disk image windows. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #184,366 by inthane-chan 11/17/04 6:36:00 PM Reply	Ars I've been reading them for some time, and they come across to me as a bunch of platform-agnostic, open minded individuals. The forums are about as good as it gets in terms of S/N ratio (excluding here of course) and there are some well-informed people there who are quite willing to help. If I have a wintel problem, that's the first place I go to ask. "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
Post #184,371 by SpiceWare 11/17/04 7:14:04 PM Reply	good to know I'll add them to my sites to frequent :-) Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #184,399 by Ashton 11/18/04 6:29:37 AM Reply	And it's stuff like this.. that causes me to eschew the Mac forum for weeks at a time. Oh and.. seeing a friend's Powerbook; watching a DVD on it w/ external speaker/amp. She needs to get her e-mail back 'home' (is on an emergency trip to LA / no web access). I mention to a fellow IWEr that, "it's Blue-Tooth enabled - so why didn't it display the Google page and log her in, at the local Inet-Cafe?". He sez, "umm, you need a little plug-in card called Airport." I go home. Hear next day that she scored the card, apparently at a good price ($80?) plugged it in. Went back to Cafe: got e-mail. No Call-Home-with-S/N.. No INSTALL NO B.S. Now she's going to give me the e-Machine I set up for her a couple years back.. but.. do I even care?? Powerbooks should require a triplicate DEA Rx, as should nicotine. I don't NEED another computer! damn it. But ... ... Stop telling me this stuff!
Post #184,400 by pwhysall 11/18/04 7:03:56 AM Reply	/me nods on the Airport/Bluetooth thing. I plugged the Airport card into the iBook (10.3.5 at the time), powered up, and it prompted me to choose a wireless network. That was it. With the DBT-120 Bluetooth adapter it was a similar story. Plug it in, and start the process of pairing a device. No fuss, no mess. Windows and Linux have equally shitty Bluetooth implementations, but for different reasons. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]
Post #184,732 by admin 11/21/04 11:59:51 PM Reply	"Clever logo" [link\|http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/\|http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/] Looks like a cleverly plagiarized logo to me. :-P Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #184,740 by Meerkat 11/22/04 3:10:14 AM Reply	That's why it's clever... ...they modified it just enough so they wouldn't get sued. :) (At least, so far) Either that or Apple will do a Konfabulator to Delicious Library, and call it Tasty Bookshelves, or something... Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #185,114 by pwhysall 11/26/04 11:45:58 AM Reply	I hope so Konfabulator rapidly flattened my iBook with 256MB. (widgets slurp up huge amounts of memory when you're not looking) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home]

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