Delicious Library

I’ve been meaning to check out Delicious Library for a while, even more so after I went to the Evening at Adler last year.

Well, as usual, I kept putting it off. And then along came the MacHeist bundle which included Delicious Libary, and so I didn’t have any excuses anymore.

Holy crap. What a fantastic application. Wow. This application is exactly why I went back to using Macs (after quite a long hiatus). The concept is simple: catalog your CDs, DVDs, Books, and video games. It’s the execution that is brilliant.

What makes it brilliant is the leverage of the iSight. You see, there’s no typing in titles, song tracks, descriptions, and all that. You just fire up the iSight, and you get a video window “scanner” (complete with red laser lines across the window). Just hold up the bar code on the item and *blip* Delicious Library scans it, looks up the info for the item and imports it into your library.

All the info you could ask for is right there… title, tracks, descriptions, ratings (from Amazon, etc. You can add your own ratings, locations, notes. And best of all, it’s a great, straightfoward interface that takes virtually no time to learn.

Amazing.

This is the kind of application that makes computing a joy. My only regret is that I didn’t play around with it sooner. Now I’m going to go on a rampage, importing everything I own.