Collectorz.com Newsletter November 2007
Dear collector,
In this newsletter:
- News: Major updates for the main Collectorz.com triplet
- News: New Collectorz.com Affiliate program
- Meet The Collector: Genoveva Hopman and her book collection
- Top Tip: Submit your collection to our databases
- Your favorite CDs, DVDs, games and comics
News: Major updates for the main Collectorz.com triplet
In the last couple of months, we have released major upgrades for Movie Collector, Book Collector and Music Collector for Windows. The Music Collector 8 upgrade contains several new features that are of great use to every collector, so we introduced them in Movie Collector 5.3 and Book Collector 5.1 too. These are:- Improved Search features: New Filter screen allowing brackets, AND/OR/NOT, equal, contains, greater, less, wildcards. Save filters and use them at any time.
- Improved field selection screens: Simpler selection of fields for Columns, Sorting and Folders. Save you favorite field combinations and switch between them.
- Automatic Capitalization of Titles.
- Automatic Sort Titles.
Next to the Windows updates, we've also released new Leopard (OS X 10.5) compatible Mac editions for Music, Movie and Book Collector.
News: New Collectorz.com Affiliate program
We have introduced a new Collectorz.com Affiliate program. Partner up with us and make easy money promoting our software on your website or blog. You'll receive a 15 % commission on every sale.You can pick from a variety of banners, buttons and skyscrapers, all with your unique affiliate ID in it. At any time you can monitor your affiliate account and check the statistics on your earnings.
Click here to read more about our program and see the new Collectorz.com banners; we have a set for each software title.
Signing up for the program is easy and free, you can start making money today!
Meet The Collector: Genoveva Hopman and her book collection
'For the times they are a-changin', that certainly applies to Genoveva and her book collection. Some 20 years ago, she started working with a cataloging tool under DOS. The DOS program continued running even though she upgraded to Windows machines. She stopped using the DOS relic eventually but her books kept coming in: she bought them, received them as gifts or inherited piles of them. Enter Book Collector.Genoveva's book collection is huge, she owns thousands of them. She has already added a thousand books to Book Collector and continues to do so until the last one is cataloged. All books are neatly organized by genre: literature, thrillers, history, psychology, psychiatry or reference guides. As Genoveva says: 'I'm living in a bookcase.'
Genoveva lives in Almelo, The Netherlands and is a writer herself. Of course you'll find her own books in Book Collector as well!
Top Tip: Submit your collection to our databases
At Collectorz.com we are maintaining our own online databases for DVDs, CDs, comics and games. This way we can ensure stability, data quality and coverage. These media databases are maintained through submissions from you, the users of the programs. A lot of users are really meticulous about product data and take the effort to complete missing data in their own database. By submitting these perfect product entries back to our databases we can improve the existing data or add new items to it.It's easy to submit your database to us, just use the 'Submit to Collectorz.com database' option in the Edit menu of Music, Movie, Game or Comic Collector. Note that only general information is submitted to our databases, not personal fields like notes, ratings, purchase price, store etc.
Your favorite CDs, DVDs, games and comics
Eagles's new CD Long Road Out Of Eden jumped right into first place in our music list. The top 3 comic series is still the same, they only swap positions between themselves.Your favorites:
Top 3 DVDs:
1. Transformers
2. Spider-Man 3
3. Ratatouille
[ more ]
Top 3 games:
1. Halo 3 [Xbox 360]
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare [Xbox 360]
3. Gears of War [Xbox 360]
[ more ]
Top 3 comic series:
1. The Uncanny X-Men [Marvel]
2. Countdown [DC Comics]
3. X-Men [Marvel]
[ more ]
Top 3 CDs:
1. Long Road Out Of Eden - Eagles
2. Magic - Bruce Springsteen
3. Greatest Hits - Queen
[ more ]
- Happy Collecting -
The Collectorz.com team,
Alwin, Bernard, Ronald, Sven, Henk-Jan, AJ, Mark, Vinnie & Syts
www.collectorz.com
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