Kris Black Digital Studio

My wife and I decided that we need to make more room for our daughter’s toys and books in the house so we decided to back up some of our books on our shelves in the studio. We share our studio with our daughter’s playroom and this would allow us to accommodate the gifts and things that the grandparents love to buy.

Before packing up the books I decided that I should put to good use Delicious Library, available for the Mac only. I fired up Delicious Library and used my built-in iSight web camera to scan the bar codes for instant gratification of filling the books cover art and details from Amazon.com.

I do have one complaint. It’s such a minor issue that I hate even mentioning this but it’s really bugging me. The shape, size and dimensions of the books are not accurate on screen. I know that the guys at Delicious Monster use the format (paperback, hardback, and even comic book) to determine how the book will display in Delicious Library.

The Calvin and Hobbes books above are not displayed accurately. If you are familiar with these books (and I know a lot of people are) you will recognize that the are not printed in portrait orientation, but rather in landscape. Thus, Delicious Library distorts the cover.

Well, other than this one issue I really love Delicious Library. Head on over to the Delicious Monster Web site and check out Delicious Library. Who knows, maybe version 2 will have a solution for this.

Correo is a new open-source mail client for OS X. Correo combines two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.

Current list of features are:

• Create multiple mail accounts (POP and IMAP);
• Reply, Forward, and write new messages (via SMTP); and
  
• Ability to setupinterface for 2 column split view or 3 column view.
  

There are many planned features for the mail client, including:

• plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization);
• tabbed window interface;
• address book support;
• keychain access; and
  
• various other to-be-determined features.

Download Correo 0.1 to test it out. A word to the cautious: Be Careful! This is a 0.1 application, meaning its a brand, spanking new beta. Mke sure you have a back-up of your Mac just in case something weird happens. You can read the wiki for support and development information.

Correo is currently in the early stages of development, and the latest release for the application is the 0.1 release.

Correo - a new mail client for OS X

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