Using a CueCat outside of LT

Has anyone used their CueCats for things other than Library Thing?

I can't write computer software, but I'd like to catalog my yarn stash, whereabouts of my knitting needles, etc. I tried printing my own barcodes on my inkjet with barcode software but got nothing readable.

Most of the sites I'm finding have been software writers' musings from 2000.

If your CueCat is declawed it acts just like an English Keyboard so you can use it for anything else that is scannable.

I have successfully created, printed out and re-scanned some barcodes. See my LibraryThing CueCat help sheet for some samples (and some instructions I think - I forget what's in there).

With quite a few stumbles along the way, I have today created an Excel spreadsheet to track my yarn stash/knitting projects/needle location with my Cue Cat. (Will convert to Access later on.)

I set up a mail merge in Word and a consecutive numbering worksheet in Excel and can now print out barcodes for all the odd balls of yarn people have given me or for which I tossed the skein label.

I'll probably find that I've duplicated a lot that will be available on Ravelry.com when it comes out of beta, but I've LEARNED how.

Thanks for a very well written PDF, GreyHead! Couldn't have done this without you!

Great - glad to be of help :-)