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William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "How to make Delicious Library look up items on the UK store" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on November 24, 2009 11:29 to the problem "How to make Delicious Library look up items on the UK store" in Delicious Monster:

Release 2.3.3 should fix this... I just tested the two samples UPCs that "jovike" posted, and the first was found in the UK, the second in the US.

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "Windows Edition" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on November 23, 2009 02:34 to the idea "Windows Edition" in Delicious Monster:

It's very hard to write software for Windows. I don't do it, I'm sorry.

-Wil

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "Delicious Library: A database for books that can't find books." in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on November 23, 2009 02:32 to the question "Delicious Library: A database for books that can't find books." in Delicious Monster:

Raja,

I think what I hear you saying is that you'd like a way to specify a book (or movie or whatever) and have the program tell you what shelve(s) it's on. This is a good idea, I just haven't done it yet.

As others have said, there are a lot of other uses for Delicious Library besides find what shelf a book is on. I designed it around the idea that most people only have, say, one or two different sets of shelves for books, and their books are mostly in some order, so you'd use Delicious Library to help you initially sort your books, but after that you'd know where they were because _you_ set up the system.

Eg, I have a very large sci-fi collection. Delicious Library tells me how to sort the books by my criteria (author then publish date), but if I'm looking for a particular Larry Niven book I just go to my sci-fi shelves and look under "N". I don't boot up Delicious Library for that.

None-the-less, your feature suggestion is a good one. Thank you.

-Wil

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on October 31, 2009 02:10 to the problem "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster:

Thanks to you guys, I've tracked this bug down already -- it was, indeed, a CoreAnimation bug introduced in Snow Leopard, filed as Apple's bug #7354279.

In the meantime, I've added an ugly hack to Delicious Library to avoid their bug, and have pushed out Delicious Library 2.3.2 just for you guys:

http://delicious-monster.com/download...

Please let me know if you still have any problems!

-Wil

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on October 31, 2009 01:42 to the problem "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster:

Hi everyone,

First off, apologies for this bug. Obviously, Snow Leopard is a strange animal, and I've been reeling trying to figure out all of its quirks.

And THANK YOU for your awesome testing and workarounds. These are ABSOLUTELY critical in me finding the bug and killing it.

I'm working on this right now, I'll hopefully have a fix for you in a little bit.

-Wil Shipley

A comment on the problem "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster:

Note to Mike: this won't solve your problem with the iSight, it'll just make your machine run a LOT faster. – William Shipley, on October 31, 2009 01:40

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "How to make Delicious Library look up items on the UK store" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on October 14, 2009 22:35 to the problem "How to make Delicious Library look up items on the UK store" in Delicious Monster:

Unfortunately Amazon UK isn't currently documented to allow us to look items up by EAN (13-digit barcodes), and so even if you've set your preferences to prefer UK, sometimes we have to fall back on other Amazon stores if you scan an EAN.

We have some extra code where we first try to turn the EAN into an Amazon product number by doing a different kind of search, and it's possible this other code isn't working so well any more. Can you post the EAN numbers of some items that are failing to look up in the UK, so I can check?

Thanks,
-Wil

William Shipley replied on October 14, 2009 00:55 to the problem "iSight hangs Delicious Library 2" in Delicious Monster:

Has your iSight ever worked on Snow Leopard? We've seen a few people with driver conflicts that caused this.

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "DL display of items seems very buggy in Snow Leopard" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on September 14, 2009 19:56 to the problem "DL display of items seems very buggy in Snow Leopard" in Delicious Monster:

Hi there,

Sorry for the lack of feedback. I've been working on a 2.3 release to fix the graphical glitches and other compatibility issues since Snow Leopard came out - Apple kind of surprised me here, because their explicit contract when updating the OS is binary compatibility with the previous release, and obviously this didn't happen here.

But Apple has been very nice about working with me on this issue, and as of September 11th we have a beta that works much better under Snow Leopard. I've never seen this brown background bug myself (I saw other glitches, though), so I can't PROMISE it's fixed in 2.3 beta, but I'm optimistic.

Please check out the 2.3 beta if you're having the issue and let me know (here or at support [at] delicious-monster [dot] com if you've previously filed a bug with us) if it's working for you.

Release notes: http://delicious-monster.com/download...
Direct download of 2.3 beta: http://tinyurl.com/6lgnsm

Yours,
-Wil Shipley

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "Slow screen drawing with Snow Leopard" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on September 14, 2009 19:55 to the problem "Slow screen drawing with Snow Leopard" in Delicious Monster:

Hi there,

Sorry for the lack of feedback. I've been working on a 2.3 release to fix the graphical glitches and other compatibility issues since Snow Leopard came out - Apple kind of surprised me here, because their explicit contract when updating the OS is binary compatibility with the previous release, and obviously this didn't happen here.

But Apple has been very nice about working with me on this issue, and as of September 11th we have a beta that works much better under Snow Leopard. I've never seen this brown background bug myself (I saw other glitches, though), so I can't PROMISE it's fixed in 2.3 beta, but I'm optimistic.

Please check out the 2.3 beta if you're having the issue and let me know (here or at support [at] delicious-monster [dot] com if you've previously filed a bug with us) if it's working for you.

Release notes: http://delicious-monster.com/download...
Direct download of 2.3 beta: http://tinyurl.com/6lgnsm

Yours,
-Wil Shipley

William Shipley set one of William Shipley's replies as an official response to "No amazon search results in DL 2.2" in Delicious Monster

William Shipley replied on September 11, 2009 22:18 to the problem "No amazon search results in DL 2.2" in Delicious Monster:

Because Amazon now requires us to put a timestamp on all requests (as of August 15th), your Mac's clock has to be in sync with the rest of the world or you can't look items up. (I'm sorry for this, there's nothing I can do about it.)

Usually the easiest thing is to set your clock automatically: in System Preferences, click on "Date & Time", then check "Set date and time automatically".

The latest version (2.3, now in beta) will detect this error and offer to open System Preferences for you, to make this a bit easier.

-Wil