Comments on: CueCat hack

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 06 May 2006 20:59:22 +0000

Have a pair of modded cue cats, but Tiger is being difficult. It insists on identifying them as keyboards, and wants to check the layout by having me hit specific keys… and they ( apple ) appear to have fallen victim to windows-itis in that it wont _let_ me use the device until I go through the impossible configuration garbage.

How do I get around this?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:53:35 +0000

iBot is a Firewire Camera from Orange Micro
I thought it might be a nice addition to my Mac but I’ve used it very rarely and only now with DL that it seams to have been a waste of the 200.00 ?

http://www.firewire-....com/images/ibot.jpg

now a discontinued model…:(

DL, I love it it.:P Its better than the homemade database I made in Filemaker and I didn’t even have pictures in mine, just title date bought price etc a basic inventory stationary file modified and tweaked.
I have a large collection and knowing whom has parts of it out on loan helps. I haven’t exported it to HTML as I don’t want the world to know what I own…

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:37:51 +0000

That’s great to hear, Joe. Glad to be of help. Hey, what’s an iBot? Do you like Delicious Library? Haven’t used it in quite some time. I really wanted to be able to publish my library into HTML pages, but at the time it couldn’t do that.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:13:36 +0000

This hint worked super with the Cat. No. 68-1966
USB version just well I popped the #5 pin up with a utility knife blade and moved it all the way up from the surface with a small set of tweasers…
Plugged it in and scanned a DVD into Delicious Library and up popped the info and I’m happy…. Faster than my iBot Firewire Camera! (which also works very well in DL)

By: patty

patty — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:35:19 +0000

good to know that you are now free to scan your own groceries just for fun.

jftr, i have never heard of a cue cat…you are a rare bird (or at least an engineering one)…

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone know how to hack the 1966 model USB Cuecats? I bought two of them, but the usual hacks don’t seem to work.

By: icerabbit

icerabbit — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I remember those. Can’t you use them to keep track of your cds, movies etc if you give them to friends, like libraries & videostores do?

By: James

James — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh how spyware has changed.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well cool, Karen! I’m so glad I could help. I hope it was clean enough from that pic which side was the pin one side of the chip. Just for posterity’s sake, pin one of the chip is oriented away from that 4-pin connector which holds the cable.

Should be clear from the last picture. If you need any more help, give me a holler.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! Thanks so much for your pics! I am a non-electronics-abled middle-aged mom, trying to figure out how to mod an old usb cuecat to scan grocery coupons. I found lots of sites that told me to lift pin 5, but with 16 little metal doohickeys, i didn’t know how to count them to get number 5. Your photo solved the riddle! YAY!