Probably not the place to mention it, this being an NT forum and all, but this http://www.delicious-monster.com/ for the Mac is excellent.
It uses the built in camera on your Macbook and scans the barodes in directly. It then does a look up on the code and gives you the item and a small photo. Maybe this would help, if you have a Mac! Gavin. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps not directly to the point, but last year I got interested in > cataloging my books, and found this: > > http://zgrossbart.blogspot.com/2007/11/library-problem.html > > Which led me to these: > > http://www.microvision.com/barcode/products/rov_scanner.html > http://koha.org/ > http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/02/dijalog.html > http://open-ils.org/ > > This is probably overkill, and perhaps not directly on target for what > you want, but it should give you some ideas... > > Kurt > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This one is really a big [ot], sorry, but maybe one of you have heard of > > some software like this. > > > > Basically, my roommate, he is running some kind of pseudo-business > punting > > off music cds on ebay. Gets them in massive boxes wholesale then > one-offs > > em. Problem is he cant organize any better then tying his shoes. I have > no > > real financial interest in this venture, but he insists there is no more > > efficient way to do this, and I have a vendetta to prove him wrong. > > > > The stuff is all on shelves, but only alphabetized by the first character > of > > its title. So the whole shelf for "B" could have 100 discs in no > particular > > order. It is really a mess. > > > > It would be awesome if there was a software that would allow me to use > some > > kind of laser barcode scanner, say, maybe I could tell the software > "Shelf > > A1", then just scan every disc on that shelf, and have it look it up > online > > somehow, then catalogue it in a database, so then we could query > so-and-so > > artist name or cd name, and it returns the shelf it is on. > > > > Anyone run into this before? I'm trialing a few programs right now, but > > thought I might ask the group here :-) > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
