Our next app is a nifty little application called Delicious Library by a very unique software company called Delicious Monster. Delicious Library is the answer to your problem of keeping track of your books, videos, etc. Come on. You all have loads of books, a mountain of DVDs, and even a few VHS tapes laying around your house, right? If you are like me, you want to be organized enough to have a database of all of those things so you can keep track of who borrowed what book and when. If you are also like me, you mean well, but there aren’t enough hours in the day to actually enter all of the info into a database so you could actually do all of that.

Enter Delicious Library.

The best way to describe this software is that it is an electronic card catalog for your home media collection. It stores records of all of your stuff, and you can check things in and out to your friends, family, neighbors, etc. You’re probably thinking, “So what? I could design a database like that in Filemaker Pro in about 5 minutes.” You’re right. You could. But you’d still have to enter in all of that data. Wouldn’t be easier if you all had a barcode scanner and you could just scan the barcode on the item and have it download information about it on the web? You all have a barcode reader, right?

This is where Delicious Library shines. You can take a camera, like your iSight for example, and have it act as a barcode reader. Just point the camera at the barcode. One it has the barcode, it looks up the material on Amazon and downloads the catalog information as well as the cover art and any reviews. Data entry is now done! Cool, huh?

Check it out. You won’t be sorry.

–Pete