![]() He noted Delicious Library users have been begging for a new release for years, even though they report being perfectly happy with DL2. "The first thing I learned was: don't wait five years between your releases," Shipley said. We here at Ars have been using it for several weeks and took the opportunity to chat with creator Wil Shipley about what went into D元 and what lessons he learned from it. Briefly previewed by MacRumors earlier this week, some users have already seen what the new D元 has to offer. Nearly five years after the release of DL2, Delicious Library 3 is available to the public via the Mac App Store. The software has evolved some throughout the years-Delicious Library 2 is quite popular nowadays, despite some of its initial drawbacks-leading to pretty eager anticipation for the release of Delicious Library 3. An OS X application first released by Delicious Monster nearly a decade ago, Delicious Library has been a useful tool to those who become obsessive about cataloging their books, DVDs, CDs, and even video games. What I wouldn't have given back then for software like Delicious Library. Back then, I was relegated to creating a giant list of books in a text file along with their ISBNs, basic descriptions, and current lending status- certainly no cover photos-that I would send out to friends via e-mail. I loved collecting books, and it was my early teenage dream to catalogue everything on my Motorola Mac clone (Starmax 3000 FTW!) so I could run a privately owned lending library for my peers out of, well, my parents' house. In alternative, you can download a free trial and see if Fontcase will suit to your needs.When I was a kid, I begged my parents to line the walls of my room with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. ![]() Besides, I’ve only covered a 40% of Fontcase features in this review, there’s a lot of other cool stuff you should consider: Print settings to have a printed preview of your fonts,sharing options to share Fontcase libraries across many computers, plugins.Īnd 42 Euros (60$) is an extremely good price for a software like Fontcase. Sure, it has one big flaw (auto-activation) but I think Bohemian will fix it in the next big update. Think of it as the perfect mix of iTunes, Delicious Library and Little Snapper. In conclusion, Fontcase is one of the best Mac application for fonts managing I’ve ever seen so far. Hope Bohemian will add this feature in future updates. ![]() This happens beacuse Fontcase stores all of its data in an encrypted folder called “Vault” which isn’t syncronized with Font Book.įor this reason, everytime I find some cool fonts I import them in Font Book to auto-activate them in FontExplorer (I still use it for its CS4 integration) and, at the same time, I open them in Fontcase. Well, in my opinion it has one big problem: auto-activation.įirst of all, unlike FontExplorer there’s no auto-activation: this means that you won’t display the fonts imported in FontBook.app but you’ll have to import them again. Another great way to collect your fonts is Smart Albums: assign as many criteria as you wish and the albums will auto-refresh in the future depending on the parameters you’ll enter.Īs you might know, I’m in love with Smart Albums, so I highly reccomend you to use them.ĭespite its great features and cool UI, Fontcase has some flaws. Once you’ve entered all the details you like, you’ll be able to display in the left sidebar, slick and clear. There’s no support to Coverflow yet) activated fonts are marked with a green label, inactive fonts with a grey one and system fonts show a cool “construction” yellow/black line.Ī great way to get a quick glimpse of your fonts status. You can browse your fonts collection through the Library tab in the left sidebar, while fonts are displayed in the main window as squares (the size is adjustable with a slider in the bottom right corner) with the regular style depicting the font’s name (but just as in Finder, you can change the display view to List. 9Īnyway, what Fontcase does, and does it well, is managing your fonts: just like iTunes catalogues and sorts your songs / artists / albums, Fontcase collects your fonts, fonts families, designers and foundries. It is Cocoa brought to the next level, something even Apple would like to do in my opinion (just look at Font Book and its ugly interface). Fontcase’s UI is something I would like to see in every Mac app: clear,slick, simple menus, big previews, quick look, smart albums. And that’s what you’ll notice at first run: interface. Winner of Apple Design Award 2009, Fontcase was created by Bohemian Coding and designed by Laurent Baumann.
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