Freeware barcode scanner utility

Many of you may be familiar with the cuecat barcode scanner being given away at Radio Shack and elsewhere. It reads most types of barcodes including UPC, ISBN and even the tracking numbers on UPS packages. The software that comes with the cuecat is supposed to be snoopware--it is designed to send everything you scan to an internet database, which points you to a web site related to the product you just scanned. I never installed the driver software, but instead wrote a VB program that reads the output of the scanner, displays the data in a text box, and optionally automatically copies it to the clipboard without generating any network traffic. Enjoy!