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Delicioius Monster released version 2 of their Library software. Delicious Library 1 was a nice looking app. It was a good way to manage your stuff and show off how cool it looks on a shelf. Except you couldn’t really show anyone other than looking at your screen. Now version 2 lets you export your library to the web and view others’ libraries right in the app. Other than that, the upgrades are minor and long over due. I still find the PC knockoff MediaMan to be more functional for me, like adding items directly into distinct categories like DVDs and Blu-rays instead of adding them to Movies, creating a shelf for Blu-rays and dragging each one over. The other thing that bugs me about DL is not being able to change the case size of items. DL1 had the wrong size for PS3 games forever, and never bothered to change it with a simple update until 2 came out. And now Dreamcast games are still the wrong size. MediaMan lets you change the size of any item. However the export feature is lacking and certainly doesn’t look as nice as DL.

Check out my library.

I’m trying to decide what to use for photos. I currently have Gallery on this site, but I don’t like it too much anymore. I think I fiddled with it too much. Since I bought a MacBook Pro recently and also have an iPhone, I was thinking of paying for a .Mac account. Everything integrates nicely that way. But I just checked out my Flickr account after years of non activity, and it says I have a Pro account because I’m a AT&T Yahoo! Internet customer.

So now I can’t decide. Mac web gallery is really pretty. Flickr is functional, unlimited, and currently free for me.

Today I was adding my DVDs and books to Delicious Library on my Mac. When you add an item, a voice will say the name of the item you just added. When I added Harry Potter stuff, it would say the title as usual, but after a short pause a whisper voice will say ‘Voldemort’. It was really creepy and caught me by surprise. I’m a little freaked out now.

Turns out it’s an easter egg. If you add Star Wars, it does the same thing except says ‘I am your father’. Less creepy but cool.

I got my very first laptop which happens to be my first Mac as well. I got the MacBook Pro with a 25% discount through my girlfriend’s co-worker’s cousin who is an Apple employee. That’s a big savings on a $2000 machine, and I also had some store credit from the iPhone rebate thing. So after tax it was about $1600. So far, I like it. It’s much faster than my desktop PC. I haven’t done too much with it yet. Not like I do much on my PC either. But it’s nice to surf from the bed or bring it around the house to chat while I watch TV.

Sounds like an expensive Internet machine, but I plan to do some things. I got the iPhone SDK and might see if I can develop something. It’s been awhile since I did any programming. I also played a bit with Garageband and mixing up some NiN songs. There’s lots of things I like about Macs. How pretty and simple apps are to use. The OS also has a lot of neat features built in that Windows doesn’t have built in. But most of these things are possible on Windows through third party apps and modifications. That’s the great thing about Windows, the development community I think is much greater and you’ll always have multiple options for everything. But those few Apple apps are just cooler than most Windows apps.