Bar codes can be your friends

When bar codes became commonplace, we thought it would only be a matter of time before we'd all be using them to organize everything. That day may finally be near, only 30 years later.

The Flic Scanner Media Organizer builds personal media libraries by scanning and cataloging music, movies and books. Microvision, which manufactures the technology, makes it sound almost too easy to be true: "Scan your items, return to your computer, plug in the scanner and watch the Collectorz.com software work for you." You can retrieve such information as cover art and track information, which can be downloaded to portable devices or shared with friends on the Web.

If you're as poorly organized as we are--and that would be saying a lot--it might be worth springing the $200 to buy on of these. As handheld scanners go, you could do a lot worse on price.

(Photo: Microvision)

[rfelgueiras]

Not new for the mac...

We've been able do this on the mac with Delicious Library for quite some time,
and it works with all the built in iSights in all the macbook/pros, no extra
software needed.

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

[wwwebster]

Readerware

I've been using Readerware for years. Remember those old seemingly useless CueCat scanners? Thanks to XML APIs and a decent client like Readerware it does all this stuff.

http://www.readerware.com/index.html

[srmadman]

I like it!!

I purchased a Flic media organizer after I saw it on the show, and I would like to thank you. It really help me out, I have close too 1000 DVDs. Installation was easy the software was easy to use, and the finished data base was what I was looking for.