vBookSorter

Collecting digital volumes (whether e-books, video media, or music files) is an exercise in balancing function with the sheer volume of what is available out there on the net. A stunningly large collection is completely useless if all you can do is sample randomly from the list of files.

A friend of mine shared a DVD once containing about 4 gigs of music files. I found that the flat-file, helter-skelter organization of the material was off-putting to say the least. I would almost rather go to iTunes and pay 99 cents for a track than to wade through that DVD trying to find it.

One application that makes a lot of sense when collecting eBooks is called vBookSorter, created by Vangelis Dimou. This product is a sorter-analyzer that creates an amazingly accurate database of what it looks at in your inbound e-book directory. Combining information in the file name along with the ability to look inside compressed archives, the program renames your files in the outbound directory and creates a database of what is there. The process is entirely under user control, and no files are ever deleted.

There are similar packages out there that do this with music collectionsl, but none seem to work as intuitively as Vadi's gem.


Get version 3 here. Unzip and run the program.

Mike Moore

CB Model Pro Beta

You have got to see this to believe it! The folks at SolidWorks have given us a gem! It's a 3D modeling program a little like Google Sketchup, but specifically for modelling for CAM, Computer-Aided Machining. This thing is a barrel of fun to play with, but it looks like there could be some serious uses for this once it comes out of beta.

See the tool at http://www.cbmodelpro.com/

To the left is a look at the interface with a sample "head" form brought up. Below are some friends I conjured up with just a little dithering around.




This product reminds me a lot of one of the Adobe products. Can't remember what it's called.