WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005
Two Cool Things

First, I've been able to add an RSS feed to this site, thanks to some help from Mike Waddell. For a while, I've been using bloglines.com to aggregate all my news sites, and it's really neat to finally have a feed for everyone else to use. The interface is easy to use, no more checking 30 sites a day for news, no sir, it's all at one place.

Second, I borrowed Mike's cuecat and scanned in all the books I own at my office, all 147. It reads the ISBN on the back and saves it to a file, which we can then use with Books for Laura's Mac and make a catalog of all our books. It's great for record-keeping needs, like insurance, or just to have a list of books so we know what we already own and can find a book quickly. Now, it's time to scan the books, CDs and DVDs from home. Technology is amazing.

Posted by Mark @ 5:03 PM CDT [Previous] [Next]
Replies: 2 comments
I just bought a CueCat on eBay. :) I decided that they're probably going to become harder to find as time goes on, and they're still the cheapest barcode scanner in existance.

I paid $15 for the cat (modified to USB already), and $5 shipping. I figured £10 for USB barcode scanner was worth it.

:)

Thanks!

M

Posted by Matt @ 03/16/2005 07:09 AM CDT
Wish I had picked up a cuecat from RadioShack when they had the promotion. If you have a camcorder, give Delicious Library a try.
Posted by Rich @ 03/14/2005 04:32 PM CDT