RSSCueCatLibraryThing & CueCats - Catalog your books
John writes -
"LibraryThing lets you catalog your books, but the coolest part, to me, is that they have a feature that lets you repurpose the CueCat, a late-ninties barcode scanner which was hitherto useless dot com schwag. Now you can use it to scan your books into their system! Very cool." - Link.
Related:
- PalmOne Zire + CueCat = Barcode scanner? - Link.
- C.R.T. Cat - Link.
- Dialing from a picture frame - Link.
- LEGO barcode reader - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 5, 2007 07:41 AM
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I wouldn't say that this is not a "hitherto" useless piece of schwag.
In fact, other programs (including book catalogs such as Readerware) had support for the "obfuscated" output of the CueCat within a few weeks of the mass of them hitting the ground. Further, a method for breaking the ofuscation was also quickly found and disseminated, making the CueCat a pretty useful all purpose barcode scanner.
I myself have a couple, but I don't use them because they're the older, non USB version and it's a hassle to keep my PS/2 keyboard daisy chained through it.
Regardless, it is very cool that LibraryThing is selling and supporting the cats now.
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