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MacNews - November 2004
Delicious Library
Reviewed by Terry White
T
here comes a time in everyone’s
computing life that they run across
an app that they find simply amazing. I have had plenty of those experiences over the last 20 years. However,
the most recent one for me was when a
colleague showed me Delicious Library!
Delicious Library is a media cataloging
app. It catalogs your Movies, Books,
Audio CDs and Game Console Games.
This is not the first cataloging app for the
Mac by any means. Various apps have
been around for years. There have also
been various templates for FileMaker Pro
also. The problem I had with most other
apps and templates was that I didn’t
want to have to type in all that data
manually. I have been toying around with
various DVD cataloging apps and before
Delicious Library I had settled on DVD
Attaché. When I found DVD Attaché I
thought I was in heaven because all you
have to give it is the title and it looks up
the rest of the info including the box shot
over the Internet. Sort of how iTunes uses
the CDDB to look up CD album/track
information. You basically just type in the
title of your DVD and then it goes out
over the internet and sucks down all the
info about it such as the box shot, actors,
description, DVD special features, etc. etc.
It uses Amazon.com as one of its sources.
DVD Attaché works great and best of
all it’s FREE! It allowed me to catalog my
library of over 270 DVDs
relatively quickly and it will
even build a website for
you to allow others to see
what’s in your collection.
Although the program works as advertised, it doesn’t win any awards for being
a “pretty or elegant” app.
Once I saw Delicious Library I
said, “WHOA! This app looks like an
iLife app.” It looks like it came right out
of Apple. The attention to detail and
design is amazing. However, that wasn’t
the must have feature for me. What blew
me away was the fact that you can not
only add entries via typing in a title and
hitting find, but you can also add entries
to it using your Apple iSight camera to
scan the UPC barcodes on the back
of your DVD cases or books! This was
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Delicious continued from page 2
freakin’ amazing! It actually works VERY
WELL. Simply hold your iSight up to the
barcode on the back of the DVD (CD,
Book or Video Game) and “beep” it
scans it and then looks up the info over
the internet and downloads the info into
your library including the box shot. This
worked so well that I paid the $40 price
to fully activate it immediately. I cataloged
my entire collection in less than an hour
using my iSight.
DVD Attaché is Free and just does
DVDs, so you can’t go wrong with it.
However, for $40, Delicious Library
blows it away. The only things missing
from Delicious Library is there is no web
output feature and it doesn’t capture as
many details as DVD Attaché. These are
two relatively easy things for the makers
of Delicious Library to add and I have
already made my suggestions to them via
email! However, keep in mind that Deli-
cious Library also catalogs Books, Audio
CDs and Game Console Games.
The other thing I didn’t really like
about DVD Attaché was that there was
no way to divide up the library or have
multiple libraries. For example, I wanted
a library with just the kid’s movies and
one with the “grown up” movies (calling
it “adult movies” just didn’t sound right).
With Delicious Library you still only have
one library, however you can create as
many Collections as you want. Think of
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Collections like you would Playlists in
iTunes or Albums in iPhoto. The main
library holds everything, but you can drag
like items into various Collections of your
choice.
Delicious Library does an awesome job of integrating with Address
Book, iCal and iPod too. The people in
your OS X Address Book automatically
show up in Delicious Library. This is so
that if you loan an item out you can just
drag the item and drop it on top of the
contact who borrowed it to keep track
of who has what. It even automatically
creates a little calendar with reminders
for one week later (by default) that this
item should be returned. You guessed it.
It also automatically creates an iCal calendar called “Library Loans” and puts day
events on it for when items are due back.
Once the item has been returned you
simply check it in with a menu command
in Delicious Library and it removes it from
the iCal automatically. If you click on a
contact you can see who has what. That
solves the biggest problem with loaning
books, movies, CDs and DVDs out. In
most cases you forget that it’s loaned out
in the first place and then when it comes
up missing, you can’t even remember who
you loaned it to. Delicious Library syncs
your library with your iPod notes feature
via iSync. This way you can take a copy
of your library with you when you go
shopping to avoid buying items you
already own! Been there, done that!
The only problem that I ran into
was Delicious Library only seems to save
when you quit the App. There is no
Save feature under the File Menu. So if
you catalog 20 items and the app crashes,
you will most likely have to catalog those
20 items again. The app did crash on me
a couple times, however, since I did my
cataloging they have released an updated
version. It hasn’t crashed since. I still rec-
ommend that you quit and relaunch the
app after every 10 items or so just to be
on the safe side.
You can try Delicious Library for
FREE. Your catalog will be limited to 25
entries. I highly recommend that you take
it for a spin. If you like it, you can buy
it for $40 with a purchase feature built
right into the app. Well worth the price.
Download Delicious Library here: http://
www.delicious-monster.com/
Download DVD Attaché here: http://
www.dvdattache.com/index.php
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MacNews - November 2004
A Backup is only as good as the Restore
by Calvin Carson
E
very day my job as a Systems
Analyst is to make sure systems
are backed up and occasionally
fulfill requests for restoration of lost or
damaged data. I have in the past written
articles for MacNews on the need and
ways to backup your Mac. If you are
new to computers or just haven’t been
thinking about it, you may not know how
critical it is to have a good backup of you
system. Those of us that have been in the
“bits and bytes” for some time know but
sometimes forget about backup because
you are busy doing other things. Backup
always seems to be an after thought. A
disaster in your computer’s location could
quickly put you out of business and you
would have lost all of the creativity you
had spent hours and hours to create.
Having a good backup of your Mac,
and storing that backup at a separate
location is important to surviving disasters
when they strike. Let me give you a real
life example.
A client of mine ran a business and
used his computer for that business. He
finished his work one day, did his backup
and took the media he backed up his
machine with home for safe keeping. The
next day he arrived at his office only
to find that someone decided he did
not need his computer any more. (The
computer had been stolen in the night)
So when he saw the empty desktop it
wasn’t a good feeling. He contacted me
and asked what he had to do. I suggested
filing a police report and contacting his
insurance company. After the insurance
company processed his claim, he had
another computer on his desk in 48 hours.
I set up the new machine. Loaded the
programs he normally uses to do his business and RESTORED his data from the
backup media to his computer. He was
up and running again in 2 days.
The reason I told this story is to
show how easy it is to get back up
and running if you have a good backup.
The part that you need to know is that
a “backup is only as good as it’s restore”.
You don’t want to wait till disasters to
try your backup for it’s restore value. If it
doesn’t restore, it isn’t really a backup.
Also, you want to make more than
one copy of the backup. Even though it
may have ran successfully, if the media it
is backup up on goes bad, gets damaged,
or just lost, you are up the creek without a paddle. The way I get around this
problem is like this.
1) Figure out how much exposure
I can tolerate – How much work can I
afford to lose on a normal basis. I figure a
week is about all I would stand.
2) In my case I do a backup every
week. I have two sets of media, Set A &
Set B. I use Set A this week and Set B
the following week. If I have a problem
I can go back a week and restore. If Set
A doesn’t restore, I can go to Set B and
only lose a week of work.
3) Once or twice a year, I do a
restore of some of the data to a blank
space on my hard drive and attempt to
read it to make sure it restores okay. After
testing the restore, I delete the restored
data and free up the drive space.
Using this system works for me. If I
am working on a “special” project that is
more intense, I do a special backup to
keep myself protected during that time.
Again, here are the keys.
1) Backup on a REGULAR basis.
You decide the interval that’s best for
you.
2) Make 2 copies of your backup
at least monthly
3) Test restore your backups to
make sure that they will restore at least
twice a year
4) Store the backup media offsite
from the computer. Safe deposit box,
Family member’s house, desk at work, as
long as the location provides you with
access and security.
This should help to assure you of a
level of security in case something “bad”
should befall you Mac.
Calvin Carson
Macgroup Member 14 years
Systems Analyst EDS
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Contour Design: Showcase: A Cool Case for the iPod
(Revisited)
by Chita Hunter
O
ccasionally, there are times
when a revisit to an item is
necessary.
The item is a sturdy little case for my
armor for the iPods were having
problems with the belt clip breaking.
Remedy can be found with
a call to the manufacturer, Contour Design. Upon contact, they
will ship you out a new belt clip,
“ redesigned and sturdier”, free of
charge. You just have to give them
the necessary particulars. Go to
their web site http://www.contourdesign.com/ for email and phone contact
information.
While you are there, you may notice
several new items relating to the all generation iPods and Mac accessories. The
“Showcase” model now comes in 8 different colors.
http://www.contourmac.com/cdi_
mac/fla_source/mac_products/showcase/
“iSee” is Contour’s completely seethru case for the 1st/2nd generation iPods.
The iSee case has an extra smaller, detachable case for carrying your earphones,
along with non-slip rubber feet, and a
detachable belt clip.
“Showcase 4G”, is the same sturdy
Showcase amour protection, but for the
new Click-wheel iPods.
The Mac accessories vary from
unique media and mice devices to risers
that get your G3/G4 towers off the
floor and your iMac off your desk.
Thanks for the user replacement
information on this iPod item update goes
to MacGroup member Marty Waldman.
Marty was “lucky enough” to have had
clips on two units fail and both times
Contour replaced the units. While being
part of the test group is never fun, Contour is showing great customer service by
updating and standing behind this great
little unit.
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20 Gig iPod, the “Showcase.” For all
the times that I have dropped my iPod
while doing various activities, I have been
extremely grateful to have the “Showcase.”
Some owners of this great little suit of
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MacNews - November 2004
Google: The Missing Manual
Book Review by Art Payne
W
ho would buy or need a
computer book on how to
use a web search engine?
Maybe a person who has ever been
to Yahoo.com and is hit with a hundred
or so choices of where to click to make
an attempt to get what you need, but
to write an entire book on how to use
Google, the world’s simplest and most
accurate search engine. What a waste
was my first thought?
I knew and use some of the features
that lie in the menu above that search box
like “Images” when I am looking for a certain picture or “News” for “Up to The
Minute” stories but since the book was
part of O’Reilly’s “Missing Manual” series
so I knew it would be well written and
good so I figured it would be worthwhile reading. Google: The Missing
Manual goes into detail about how this
“magical” search engine works and some
amazing (and scary) things it can do.
The book opens with a bit of history
about Google, which was a concept of
two Stanford College grad students in
1995 that had an idea to create a search service, free e-mail with 1GB of storage
engine that would rank search results not space.
on data that could be manipulated by
The rest of the book is divided into
web masters but would return results four parts, “Search Techniques”, “The
based on the strength of the Internet Unknown Google”, “Search Tools” and
itself. Their technology looks at how “Google For Webmasters”. Almost all
many sites link to a page primarily and computer users will learn something new
base the resulting rank on that. In 1998, from the “Search Techniques” part of the
the two students dropped out of Stan- book. Chapter One basically describes
ford to pursue Google full time. Run by how Google works with things like
4 employees out of a Menlo Park garage, working within Google’s 10 word limit
Google at that time answered about on search phrases to correctly using wild10,000 search requests per day. Today card searches to get the results you want.
it gets over 250 million requests per day It also gives six very Cool Google tips of
because it is the easy to use and effective. which one I have come to use on a reguThe history section of the book also looks lar basis. Remember how convenient the
at Google’s near future including the IPO Calculator in your OS 9 Apple Menu
of it’s stock once it becomes public and used to be. With the move to OS X, it
the latest craze, the Beta of its GMail is now buried in my Applications folder
MacNews - November 2004 9
and is not important enough to me to
take up icon space on my dock. I found
that Google acts as a calculator by entering numbers in like a search field. Chapter
Two goes into more specific detail on
refining your search to pinpoint the results.
This part of the book will surely make your
time spent computing more productive.
The “Unknown Google” goes into
detail on Images, News Groups, Shopping and Directory searches. Google’s
Image search scours the web for pictures embedded in web pages and lets
you view them without the other page
content. News gathers feeds from news
websites from around the World, minute
by minute and gives you a summary with
links to more information with a click of
your mouse. Google Directory was new
to me. Apparently it is Google categorized by Topics and edited by Humans
instead of computer algorithms. It gives
you a wide topic to start and you can
narrow down your search with each click
of the mouse. Google Groups brings
together users with shared interests in a
News group type feed and gives up info
on how to join, post, and benefit from
these Groups. If you are looking to buy
something you can start your search with
FROOGLE, Google’s accurate shopping search engine that allows you to rank
by Price from high to low among other
unique features.
“Search Tools” section of the book is
set-up basically for Windows users and
describes how to integrate a Google
toolbar into the web browser, a feature we Mac Users already have built
into Safari. It also tells of how to add a
GoogleBar to other browsers like Firefox
and Mozilla.
The final section of the book is
targeted towards Webmasters. It gives
explains and gives tips on how one can
increase Page Rank and visibility with
Google as well as how to make money
with Google’s new advertising program.
Overall the book is an interesting
read and very informative for anyone
who wants to save time and use their
time online more efficiently or for a person
who relies heavily on the Internet as a
source of information. If you are person
with a webpage or website, the book is
worth the price of admission to increase
your Google (and other search engine)
rank.
Google: The Missing Manual
By Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest
May 2004
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN: 0-596-00613-6
311 pages, $19.95 US, $28.95 CA,
£13.95 UK
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Tips and Tricks
by Phyllis Evans
pmevans@mac.com
R
ecently, a request for help for a
recent switcher was posted on
the iBBS. The switcher had a
folder with nearly 5 dozen files that were
done in WordPerfect, and they couldn’t
find anything in Panther that would convert them. I’ve used MacLink Plus to
do some conversions in the past, and it
usually works well. Seeing as DataViz
just released a new version of MacLink
Plus Deluxe, I decided to download the
demo version and give it a try with the
WordPerfect Windows files.
Well, let me tell you, folks, that was
the easiest and fastest conversion I’ve ever
seen. I launched the software, dragged
the folder of files into the work window,
clicked on the convert button, and in
less than a minute had a folder full of
Microsoft Word files (my default setting), complete with all original formatting.
Oh, there was one spreadsheet file (can’t
remember the original creator) that was
converted to Excel. I was so impressed
that I went to the DataViz website and
paid for the upgrade.
New in MacLink Plus 15 are translators to extract text from PDFs, translators
for Word & Excel 2004 and WordPerfect 12, as well as graphic formats, includ-
ing Photoshop files. It will even convert
documents and send them to your iPod.
MLP 15 is $79.99 new or $39.99
for the upgrade from any older version.
Mail folder that resides in the user Library
folder to the desktop and import everything back into the new Mail folder. It
was time consuming, but at least I didn’t
http://www.dataviz.com/
Apple Mail Problems
I have a love-hate relationship with
Apple Mail. I love it when it works and
I hate it when it quits. Sometimes it’s
just a particular message that will make
it quit, but recently anything I did made
it quit. I couldn’t click on anything. The
work-around was to move the entire
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MacNews - November 2004 11
lose any mail. Unfortunately, everything
was marked as unread, so I had to group
select things and umcheck them.
and keep the gunk from accumulating it will be worth it.
The skins run $29.99 for
full size covers and $19.99 for
iBooks and PowerBooks. They
also make some nice iPod skins.
Check them out at http://
www.iskin.com/.
Technical Problems
File this one for future reference! A
friend has had intermittent problems with
the video going wonky on her 17” TiBook.
Of course, it refuses to do it when it’s at
the Apple Store. It was even left there
for an entire week where it behaved
beautifully. Well, it did it again this morning, and her husband managed to grab
some video footage and a couple of still
shots of the screen in action. He loaded it
onto the PowerBook and promptly took
off for the Apple Store, where it finally
did it where an Apple tech could see
it, albeit briefly. Armed with the video,
still shots and an eyewitness to boot, it
looks like it will finally be getting a new
video card.
The moral — next time you have
an intermittent problem, keep a camera
handy to get some video or stills to show
the repair person. Strange noise? Tape
record it. There is nothing like visible or
audible proof that your intermittent problem really exists.
iSkin
I always have a cup of coffee or can
of soda on my desk, and after surviving
several minor splashes, I decided that it
was probably time to buy covers for my
new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and my
iBook. iSkin Inc. makes ultra thin silicone
skins that cover your keyboard completely,
but still allow you to type. While they
do come in a couple of different colors, I
chose to stick with transparent skins.
The one for the iBook is great,
extending about an eighth of an inch
past the edges of the keyboard. While I
haven’t done a lot with it yet, it doesn’t
seem to slow me down any great amount.
Of course, I’m not the fastest typist
around. The added benefit is that when
I’m transporting my iBook, the screen
cover no longer slides out the side. That
bugged me.
The one for my Bluetooth keyboard
is finally starting to grow on me, although
it took a bit to get used to it. I’ve had to
learn to stay away from the edges of keys
and keep my fingers in the middle. Less
resistance. And it’s a hair and lint magnet.
But all in all, if it will protect my keyboard
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Dear Fellow MacGroup Member,
My name is Leonard Mazerov and I want to
remind you that two very significant things have happened to MacGroup-Detroit over the past couple
of months. One: we celebrated our 18th Anniversary. And two: we became a nonprofit
corporation-a so-called 501(C)3 identity under the rules of the IRS.
Both items took a long time to
happen. The 18 year anniversary
took—you guessed it—18 years.
The non-profit corporation status
seemed to take that long. Wow!
What a paper mill that generated!
Needless to say, every member
I’ve spoken with, was pleased with
these two major accomplishments.
Now, in addition to the benefits
spelled out in a recent MacNews
with regard to the 501(C)3 status, we
can also embark on some serious plans for
the future of MacGroup—all of which will
cost money. And with new growth, there is a neverending money battle. Our group has always been
a leader in new ideas as well as the acquisition of
current and exciting equipment. And while we have
been able to keep our membership and renewal dues
(our primary source of income) relatively constant, it
is now time that MacGroup started paying
over budget expenses instead of depending upon our president, Terry White, to
cover them out of his own pocket.
I think the time has come to say
enough of all that. If we want to
be recognized as a “professional”
organization, then let’s be professional! The question then becomes
how, as a member, can I help? I say,
let’s you and I and every member
make a tax deductible donation to
MacGroup so we can continue our
growth and expansion in the world of
Apple computers and ancillary equipment and software. We will all benefit
and that’s the way it should be.
So then, take out your checkbook now and
make a tax deductible donation to the address shown
below. Thanks. MacGroup-Detroit, Inc. P.O. Box
760399 Lathrup Village, MI 48076-0399.
See Leonard’s message via QuickTime at http://macgroup.org/movs/donatetomgd.mov
MacGroup-Detorit Donation Form
Date ______________________
Name __________________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________________
City _________________________ State ______ Zip ___________________
Phone _________________________
Donation Amount $______________
Mail to: MacGroup-Detroit, Inc. • PO Box 760399 • Lathrup Village, MI 48076-0399
*Please check with your tax preparrer to make sure that your donation can be deducted from your taxes!
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Can Help With
Clarisworks, MS Word 5.1, Beginnersgraphics
Adobe FrameMaker, Photoshop,
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Contact via
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Hours Available
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eral Mac support, General DTP, DVD
Authoring, Cross Platform connectivity.
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Utilities, MS Word 5, PageMaker 6, mcbridej@earthlink.net
810-887-3330
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