‘Look and feel’ is kind of an outmoded concept, I think.” “ Although Delicious Library was the first to do it, we didn’t try to copyright the idea of wooden shelves, or of showing books photo-realistically. So, of course they looked around, found the best interface for displaying books (Delicious Library’s shelves), and said: yup, this is what we’re doing,” he went on to say. “ But the thing about iBooks is, it’s a book-reader. Notably, he says, “ Mike Matas was a UI designer on the iPad, Lucas Newman is an iPhone / iPad engineer, and Tim Omernick was an iPhone / iPad engineer but left a while ago to work on games independently.” Update: Shipley has responded with some lengthy comments. You may wonder why Apple didn’t just hire Shipley if they poached his whole team? “ They couldn’t afford to hire me,” he writes. We’ve reached out to Shipley to confirm those hires and will update if we hear back.īack in July, you may recall that Shipley had to kill the Delicious Library iPhone app because of a change to Amazon’s APIs for pulling product data. But if Apple really did hire much of Shipley’s team then just re-create the look, that’s a little shady. Still, as Shipley notes, iBooks is only for eBooks while Delicious Monster is for all types of media, and has much more functionality. Not only that, but it’s not like this is a little-known app that Apple may have missed: it has won the Apple Design Award twice, and been a runner-up one other time. I mean, the bookshelf view in iBooks is nearly identical to the main bookshelf view used in Delicious Library. Flattery?” While Shipley tries to play it off as not that big of a deal, clearly he’s pretty upset about it. Later, he added, “I guess it’s not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product’s look. “ No, Apple didn’t license iBooks from me. In fact, Shipley was quite vocal on Twitter during the keynote today about the situation. The only problem? His shop didn’t make it. I’m not the only one who thought that either. Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley thought the same thing. You'll be limited to, I believe, 25 items, but that's enough to get a sense of the program's capabilities.When Apple was demoing its new iBooks application for the iPad today during their keynote address, I just kept thinking to myself: this simply must have been designed by Delicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library. And if you've never used Delicious Library, check out the demo to see everything its capable of doing. Suffice it to say that if you liked version one, you'll probably love version two. There are tons of other changes in version two as well this page on the Delicious Library site does a much better job of covering them all than I ever could. I certainly haven't noticed any slowness while using the program. Between the use of CoreAnimation, a change to a SQL database back-end, and other behind-the-scenes changes, speed is no longer an issue, even (apparently) for those with thousands of items in their collections. One of my complaints with the previous version of DL was that it got slow, even with my moderately-sized collection. There are strong links between iTunes and DL2, so much so that changes in iTunes song info, for instance, are automatically read into DL2. The program now uses CoreAnimation to display your library, which provides for fast scrolling and resizing, as well as some nifty animations when you add or delete items from the library. However, I don't use this feature at all, so I'm not in the best position to comment on it. snippets of reviews from Amazon and recommendations (again, from Amazon) for other related items that you may like.įor those who loan out items in their collection, it seems like the loan-and-return interface is now easier to use. You can see a synposis of the item from Amazon detailed info such as publication date, retail price, purchase date, etc. The user interface has been overhauled, replacing the sidebar of version one with a lower window pane that presents a variety of information related to the selected item. In addition to the original categories, new categories allow you to track tools, toys, software, gadgets, and clothing. Version 2 picks up where version one left off, with a slew of new features and performance tweaks. Your collection is then displayed with virtual representations of the books, movies, etc., using images that are also downloaded from the web. At the time, Delicious Library let you easily catalog your books, movies, music, and video games - it could read bar codes using an iSight camera, and then look up data for those bar codes on the web, greatly simplifying the task of creating a digital version of your collection. The first version of Delicious Library was a Pick of the Week way back in 2004.
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