Delicious Library 1.5 Now Available!

Mac OS X Tiger will be on store shelves tomorrow and lots of people are already receiving their pre–ordered copies in the mail. Just in time we have released Delicious Library 1.5. It's a free upgrade and has a bunch of new features that take advantage of a bunch of the cool new Tiger technologies like Spotlight and Dashboard.

Be sure to get Tiger and download Delicious Library 1.5.

I would love to hear what everyone thinks of the Dashboard widget and the release in general — post your thoughts to the comments on this post. Thanks for all your enthusiastic support for the product so far! If you like the release, help spread the word and post about it on your blog. If you need any screenshots or have any questions please shoot me an email.

Get Ready for Delicious Library 1.5

In addition to many other things, the past several months me and everyone else at Delicious Monster have been hard at work on Delicious Library 1.5. We are finally wrapping things up and we'll be releasing it along side Mac OS X Tiger on April 29th. We've been focusing on three major areas: support for Tiger, internationalization, and bug fixes.

Mac OS X Tiger is right around the corner and Delicious Library 1.5 has been optimized to run flawlessly on it. We've even added a few new features to take advantage of the many new, exciting Tiger technologies including Spotlight and Dashboard.

For people living outside of the United States or who speak languages other than English, you are going to love 1.5. It's been fully translated into five other languages and can now natively import items from around the world.

Delicious Library users have been really helpful, tracking down bugs and sending in reports. We have been taking these reports very seriously: reading each one, prioritizing them, and fixing the top issues one by one. With Delicious Library 1.5, we've fixed dozens and dozens of these bugs and have continued to improve performance.

Delicious Library 1.5 will be available on April 29th and will be a completely free upgrade. I think everyone is going to really love this release.

New Blog Design

Welcome to my new blog. I have redesigned the whole site in two new themes, indoors and outdoors. You can select the theme you like best using the theme switcher on the right.

For the indoors theme, I drew the wood desktop using Adobe Photoshop. For the outdoors theme, I took a photo of a soccer field at the near by Magnuson Park.

I also put together two desktop photos to go along with each themes. You can download them here.

Hope everyone enjoys the new look.

UPDATE: The outdoors theme is not supported in Internet Explorer, so if you are using IE the theme switcher will not show up.

Save Arrested Development

One of the greatest TV shows of all time is at risk of being canceled. Arrested Development, winner of 5 Emmy awards, has halted production on the second season after just 18 episodes, 4 short of originally planned 22. Now the rumors are Fox is seriously considering canceling it for good. This must not happen. Arrested Development is by far the greatest TV show I have ever seen. It has a killer cast, a totally original format and unbelievably funny writing and acting.

If you have not seen Arrested Development yet you should go buy or Netflix the first season on DVD right away, you will not regret it. If you already have seen the show then you know what I mean when I say "it must stay on the air". The Arrested Development website has a put up a "Get Arrested Loyalty Oath" trying to raise support for a third season, so everyone should submit your pledge.

UPDATE: My friend Andrew Wilkinson put together this great Arrested Development sound bit mix in Apple's Garage Band. You can check out here.

Blind Trip to Vancouver

I went up to Vancouver, BC this weekend to visit my brother and hang out with some friends. Friday night we went out and got back really late, I went to take my contact lenses out and realized I had forgotten my contact case. I grabbed a glass from the hotel bathroom put some contact solution in followed by my contacts and went to bed.

Saturday morning I got up and went to put my contacts in but the glass I had put them in was empty. I thought about it for a second and then realized where the contacts were: in my stomach. In the middle of the night I had gotten up to get a drink of water. Not thinking anything of it I grabbed the glass next to the bathroom sink, filled it with water, chugged it down and went back to bed. That's right, I drank my contact lenses.

I did not have any backups so I was basically blind to anything more than about 3 feet way the whole weekend. I ended up wearing my friend Andrews glasses, although his prescription is about half of mine, but I was willing to take what I could get.