Norm Copeland's dashboard

When I got first DL there was one thing I wished for and that was the ability for multiple users/macs in a family to share the same database. I really want the ability for my wife to be able to add and update the library without having to change computers or log into my account.

Now that the iPhone is out make that two items on my wish list with the second being a fully accessible library on the phone.

It seems to me that solving the multiple user problem would help in solving the iPhone problem. If a syncing system for DL2 was written so that multiple DL2s can sync their databases together then writing a version of DL2 that runs on the iPhone/iTouch should be easier to manage.

One should not have to transfer that much data when syncing. Sure the initial sync might take a while, who cares, but once it's done later syncs should only take a few seconds. After all just how much data would you really change during a session?

I don't know what's use to manage the database in DL2 but the iPhone has SQLite as a standard part of the SDK. I would not expect a 5000 item database slowing SQLite down much.

BTW, there is now something like DL available for the iPhone, it's call StuffRadar. I would think that getting a sync-able version of DL on the phone would increase the bottom line although you might have to port the Windows, yuck.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

William Shipley,

In case you haven't already tried, Delicious Library successfully deconvolves and scans a barcode taken with the iPhone camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5EY8b...
http://code.google.com/p/zxing/issues...

Maybe you could port the deconvolution algorithm, create a small barcode scanning library on top of the iPhone SDK and license it to other developers. There are a bunch of cool potential applications for 1d barcode scanning on the iPhone so I'm sure you'd get a lot of interest.

Thanks,
Jefferson

Wifi sync over Bonjour would be sublime! – MDNZ, on August 22, 2008 06:58

@Ed, FB only accesses the still camera, not video. – MDNZ, on August 22, 2008 06:57

If FaceBook can access the camera, why can't DL? Not so concerned with browsing the library so much as adding to it.... – Ed, on August 21, 2008 12:55

Any sort of simple export to the iPhone would be much appreciated. Some of us don't want to publish to the Web, even if no one can see the information. It would be terrific if it's searchable; if not, just about anything elegant will do the trick for those of us anxious to carry around our collections for reference or insurance purposes.

Norm, we had to disable incoming emails from Verizon because they were causing a lot of duplicate posts and notifications for our users. This problem has happened twice before, so now we are waiting on them to fix it. One workaround some users have tried is to send a picture message without the picture in order to update. Emails from vzwpix.com have not been problematic thus far, so they have not been blocked. You can read a little bit more about it in this thread:

http://getsatisfaction.com/brightkite...

I hope that helps some.

This is something we have been looking at! ;)