Did you know you can suggest new old items for the Facebook application Worthless gifts for print news veterans on the fan page?A comment from Kevin James of Oklahoma City, OK, that he uses the :CueCat, that cat-shaped object that read a barcode and sent you to a web site in the late 1990s, as a Christmas ornament gave us another gift in the application.
At one time, I had two CueCats - one sent to me as a Wired magazine subscriber and another picked up at work as part of a Parade magazine promotion. (Wired, Parade and my work place, the Flint Journal, are all part of Advance Publications. ) You also could get a free :CueCat at a RadioShack.
The idea was that the :CueCat would translate barcodes in articles or ads to web site links so that the user didn't have to write down a web address.
The :cueCat failed, which is probably why there were about 50 like-new ones available on Ebay Thursday, many with a buy-it-now price of $8.99.
Unfortunately, I remember that :cueCat failure everytime I read something about QR codes, the two-dimensional bar codes.
By the way, you will find a shoutout on the fan page to my earlier post that mentions the Facebook application.
I took a lot of unwanted, round Mac mice and use them as ornaments on a small, decorative tree. I put it next to my Mac SE/30 fish tank.
ReplyDeleteSweet. Got a picture somewhere?
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