Easily catalog your CD collection with Catalog

We have lots and lots of CDs and DVDs here at work, each bearing research archives that date back to 1990. Thousands of workhseets and graphs across hundreds of students and nearly two decades reside on carefully backed up removable media. If I need to quickly gather the data from a certain research project conducted with a certain subject in 1992, I have a good idea of where to start searching. With Catalog by Neometric Software, however, I know precisely where my data is.

Pop a CD or (data) DVD into your Mac, and Catalog makes a quick index of its contents. Now, when you need to find that one file or piece of information, Catalog tells you exactly what disc it's on, and where on that disk you'll find it. Nice. At home, I've got a slew of old Macaddict Magazine CDs. Finding that once piece of shareware just got that much easier. I'm really loving this little app.

Catalog can be purchased for $20US, and requires Mac OS 10.3 or later. As an added bonus, Scott at Wishingline has created a Backup 3 plugin for Catalog that he has made available for free. Sweet.