Video vault: Macworld visit with Intelliscanner

Digging into the Macworld Expo video vault on this holiday Monday (in the US, we're celebrating Presidents' Day), here's a quick interview with Paul Scandariato from Intelliscanner showing off the Intelliscanner mini hardware. The demo shows how quickly you can use the mini to scan your media or books; it's easy to plug back in and offload your scans to Intelliscanner's Media app or to your collections app of choice, just the thing for your spring organization projects. You can also get preprinted barcode stickers for your own inventory planning, or print out your own if you like.

The mini was a big hit with showgoers who shopped at the booth, and it's available online from Intelliscanner for $179 (with the Media Collector software package) or $249 (adds Assets, Kitchen, Wine and Comics collector modules). While both Delicious Library and Bruji's Pedia series of organizers support scanning of barcodes via the built-in iSight, for substantial collections a standalone scanner is going to save you time and aggravation.

Read on for the video. The iPhone-friendly YouTube version is here.

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Digging into the Macworld Expo video vault on this holiday Monday (in the US, we're celebrating Presidents' Day), here's a quick interview...

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Tanner Osborn

what's the deal? let's get some new posts out sometime today

February 17 2009 at 10:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cygfrydd Llewellyn

I'd be more impressed if the scanner were Bluetooth (or WiFi), and didn't have to be physically tethered to download its scans. May as well pick up a CueCat for $15 off eBay, and toss together a quick DB in Filemaker Pro.

@yg

February 17 2009 at 10:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

If someone could come up with a simple $39 UPC scanner, I'd wager they'd make a boat of cash. This is a $180+ luxury item unless I can work it into a business decision. That's not very likely right this minute. Best of luck to them, though.

February 17 2009 at 10:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dingis

@michael
Opticon is set to release an OPN2002 in the states sometime soon that does both batch and bluetooth scanning and should be a relatively cheap option. The big problem with most BlueTooth scanners on the market is the low cost (sub $300) run in serial port profile mode as opposed to HID mode.
http://www.posguys.com/barcode-scanner_3/ has more info if you're interested.

February 17 2009 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Edward

I cannot agree more, actually I wrote a similar post weeks ago

Edward

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February 17 2009 at 3:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean Peters

"Presidents' Day"? The holiday is called "Washington's Birthday", just like it says in the link you put in the article yourself! The whole "Presidents Day" thing was cooked up by marketing types and has nothing to do with the federal holiday. Most states celebrate it as Washington's Birthday too.

Yeah, I know, off topic... whatever

February 16 2009 at 10:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ken

I use the Daneizo lending software at my work and it is the greatest!

February 16 2009 at 9:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dingis

Looks like a rebadged Opticon OPN2001. Which can be had for about 120 dollars from most point of sale retailers. The software is pretty cool since the scanner only stores barcode and timestamp data.

February 16 2009 at 9:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Michael

That's exactly what I thought, too.

I'm using the OPN-2001 together with Collectorz Movie (http://www.collectorz.com/opticon-opn-2001-barcode-scanner.php) and it works great. Well, sometimes I wish it had Bluetooth as well so I wouldn't need to hook it up to the USB Cable for managing single items, but it is already great the way it is and a huge timesaver for keeping track of hundreds of DVD and CDs.

So the question is not really how well the device works (it works great - in particular on a Mac where I didn't have to install any drivers as opposed to the Windows installation instructions and the driver CD I received), but how good is the software that they bundle with it - and how well does it match your needs.

Bye,
Michael

February 17 2009 at 6:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply