Collectorz.com Newsletter April 2008
Dear collector,
In this newsletter:
- News: The people behind Collectorz.com
- News: New Mac OS X versions
- News: Again Hello and Goodbye to colleagues
- Meet The Collector: Gary Diana and his movie collection
- Collectorz.com Connect: What's New
News: The people behind Collectorz.com
Last month we already gave you an update on our new and improved website. This is an ongoing project and we've added some new and worth mentioning features.Visit Collectorz.com | About and meet us, the people behind Collectorz.com. Read about our work, our hobbies and our own collections. With pictures of us and our office!
We've also introduced a sitemap so you'll never get lost, and a news and newsletter archive for reference.
We welcome feedback so contact us and let us know what you think of the new website. Use the contact address in the signature.
News: New Mac OS X versions
On April 16 we've released free updates for the Mac OS X editions of Music Collector, Movie Collector and Book Collector.Version 2.1.2 has great new features like the Collectorz.com templates, new toolbar icons, improved support for the CueCat scanner and much more.
You can download the new Mac versions on our Download page.
News: Again Hello and Goodbye to colleagues
At long last we have found our content manager for music. Martin Keur joined us on April 1st.Martin used to work at one of Amsterdam’s biggest music stores. Alas, they had to close down after almost 40 years being the best music shop in town, maybe even in The Netherlands. Luckily Martin sent his resume to us.
With his in depth music knowledge he will bring our database to a higher level. Visit our forum and discuss music and our database with Martin. His forum name is MetalMartin, which explains his taste in music. He is a huge collector himself, owning at least 7.000 CDs. At his home he has a special room filled with CDs and DVDs. His movie knowledge will also come in handy when he works on our online movie database.
This week we said goodbye to AJ de Jager, our content manager for movies and games. AJ always wanted to work in the movie industry and has found THE job. We can only applaud that and wish him all the best in his new career.
His colleagues have taken over his work but we've also hired a new content manager to fill the gap; he will get introduced in the May newsletter.
Meet The Collector: Gary Diana and his movie collection
"I was made aware of your software by a friend of mine. Before I had this, I had made myself an extensive, though cumbersome, spread-sheet, that I used to keep track of many of the same pieces of data for each of my DVDs. I was always trying to tweak it though and make it better because it simply didn't do what I really wanted it to do. Then I purchased your Collectorz.com Movie software and never looked back. It does absolutely EVERYTHING I want done plus a few things I had yet to think of and I have never been more pleased.I have over 1200 titles on regular DVD format and 150+ Blu-ray titles. I guess you can say I am totally addicted to movies. Before the Collectorz.com software, I was constantly buying the same DVD by accident because it was so hard for me to add a new title to my spread-sheet that I was way behind. The barcode scanner allowed me to first catch up then keep up to date. Now I don't buy titles again by accident because I have the complete catalog with me on my laptop and can refer to it if I am in doubt.
The other function that has re-newed my friendships is the loan tracking. Before I had it, I had gotten to the point where I would refuse to loan out my movies any longer because I was loosing them at an incredible rate to folks who swore the DVD was theirs and not mine. Now I can point to the loan out sheet and say, I think you are wrong and they usually don't argue. In fact, they apologize and return it.
Thanks a lot for that as I was really loosing a lot of my friends over this issue.
I just want to close by saying thank you so much for making my obsessive collecting of DVDs and Blu-rays easy to catalog. Thank you for making the change over from PC to Mac possible as well. I was very worried I was going to have to start all over again but from what I read, I should be OK when the new Mac gets here. All I will need to do is get the new Mac version of the software from you and a cable for my CueCat..."
Collectorz.com Connect: What's New
You're used to receiving our monthly favorites of CDs, DVDs, games and comics. Instead of showing these lists here, visit our Connect pages and see what's hot.A quick overview of the latest additions to Connect.
Music Collector Connect
Of course you can't miss Madonna's new album Hard Candy, already in our music database with nice front cover. Other new 2008 releases like R.E.M.'s Accelerate, Leona Lewis' Spirit and the new Counting Crows are available as well.
Movie Collector Connect
Read AJ's last DVD update for the movie database.
Game Collector Connect
What we do on Friday afternoon, when we're not working.
Also check the post about GTA IV (release date April 29) while you're there.
Comic Collector Connect
The new comics available in our online comic database.
- Happy Collecting -
The Collectorz.com team,
Alwin, Ronald, Sven, Henk-Jan, Patrick, Martin, Mark, Alain & Syts
www.collectorz.com
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