Once again apologies for the time it took to bring GuruLib back. A new CPU, extra heat sink and an additional cooling fan hopefully should prevent this failure in future. Thank you for your patience and I hope to build a reserve money in future for maintenance. If you find this service useful you may donate here

Sorry for this delayed response. I have been trying to find enough money to buy a new processor and UPS for GuruLib. Due to overheating since the cooling fan was not adequate for the Athlon X2 processor GuruLib’s main CPU failed and additionally, the APC UPS that was my power supply backup needs a battery change. The total cost was around $320. I managed to save some money and I have all the hardware available now. I will try to bring GuruLib back soon. All the data is safe and I have been backing up the contents all the time. One again sorry for this delayed response. I hope you all understand the pain of being in school and finding some additional income to run the website.

A cool touch screen interface is coming for GuruLib. Checkout the touch screen demo video.

Still working on fixing some of the bugs in the new interface. I bought the touch screen for $90 from ebay. It has a maximum resolution of 1024×740.

Selling some of our stuff to raise money for GuruLib. Local pickup preferred. Mailing is an option but the buyer has to pay for the postage.

Our internet service provider has major breakdown causing GuruLib to go out of service. I sincerely apologize for this disruption. The latest estimate from the internet service provider to get the service back is Aug 6th. Once again sorry for the inconvenience.

Sorry for the interruption that GuruLib suffered last day. GuruLib was down for almost 12 hours. The server failed but all the data is safe. The data is regularly backed up and also the database is replicated. So there was no corruption of data. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

Its been a while since the last major feature addition to GuruLib. Pressure of PhD is finally getting on me. One year ago I quit a comfortable job at Garmin for pursuing a PhD in computer Engineering. Honeymoon period is finally over and I have to start churning out papers. My advisor is on my tail imploring me to “start working 24 hours like a dog”. My specific research is on indoor localization using wireless. Lately, I had some inspiration and finally put together enough material for a paper. I hope the conferences that I am planning to send the paper will find my ideas interesting enough for publication.

Sorry to go on ranting about my problems. Anyway this post is to let you all know that I am still working on fixing bugs in GuruLib and keeping it going healthy. I use GuruLib daily to catalog the collection of research papers on my subject of interest.

The detail view was completly rewritten. The new feature allows resizing of columns, a new cover flow feature etc. You can watch all the new features in action in this short YouTube video below

Or you could checkout my library here

GuruLib community was expanded to add the clouds, search and tools section. Clouds give a daily snapshot of popular genres, authors, actors, artist, directors etc. on GuruLib. The search tab allows you to search members, title, genre, author etc. The tools section will list utilities that are useful for your home library.

Spring break is fast approaching that means we will be off. Hope you all are enjoying a the nice weather.

You may instantly add a movie or book to your GuruLib wishlist by sending a message from your cellphone with the subject as the ISBN or UPC code to barcode@gurulib.com

For e.g. If you want to add “World is Flat” from your cellphone just send a message with subject 9780374292881 to barcode@gurulib.com

You may either use the 10 digit ISBN, 13 digit ISBN, 12 digit UPC or Amazon’s ASIN code in the subject line

Before you can start adding titles this way, you need to register your cellphone number with GuruLib. This can be done at the settings page. Registration process allows GuruLib to identify the GuruLib account to add the book or movie when a message comes from your cellphone.

This feature was available for some time but I get quite a lot of email about adding this functionality to GuruLib.