Daniel R. Allen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Hmmm... Some slashdot readers are just as anal-retentive, I guess;
*>someone pointed to the following site. Check out
*>http://www.readerware.com/ for somebody elses' commerical take on the same
*>problem. Their software looks... interesting. They also extol the
*>virtues of the Qode reader, which is mobile and stores 100 bar-codes at a
*>time.
Well, it's Java and apparently will only run on platforms with Java2. It
looks as though they spent a lot of time on the interface and the
'fisheye' view looks cool but most likely the database is proprietary.
It's cool I suppose, but 50 bucks is an awful lot of dough for a niche
application.
Also, Brent Mihalski has an upcoming article in Dr. Dobb's on-line where
he uses a CueCat and perl to do the same thing in about 40 lines of perl.
*>Is it overly geeky to want to catalog everything?
No, but it's geeky to try and automate it with computers.
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