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Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about another area of improvement in last week’s CLZ Books v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1 about the collection tab-bar, you can read it here).
Today, we are going to discuss the improvements we did to the Add Books screen:
Adding Books: quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
The main change to the Add Books screen is that we dropped the Preview page, you know, the full screen page where you could preview book details of a selected book entry from the results list. That page was quite slow and outdated looking and cause a lot of back and forth tapping between results and the Preview page.
We replaced the Preview page with a quick and small “Confirm” popup, that slides in, in-place, from the bottom and shows the exact details you need to know if this is the edition you want to add. Easier and snappier!
Add by ISBN: Faster camera barcode scanner for scanning ISBN barcodes
Adding books by scanning ISBN barcodes is one the main features of the app. An essential part of adding by ISBN is the built-in camera barcode scanner.
For this update, our mobile app developer Pim has spent a few days optimizing that camera barcode scanner. The idea was to make better use of the power of today’s devices, both in terms of camera resolution and computing power.
And the results of his tweaks are amazing. Adding by ISBN is now much faster, as the scanner picks up the barcode you point at much quicker.
Last week’s CLZ Books 9.0 update was big one, with 3 areas of improvement. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do three “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.
Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the new collections tab-bar.
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v9.0: Collection tabs, better Add Books and “ISBN not found” screens
A big update v9.0 update for your CLZ Books app today, with many new features and improvements!
Here’s the full list of What’s New:
- New collections tab-bar: easily switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- Adding Books: quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
- Add by ISBN: Better screens for dealing with “ISBN not found” situations
- Add by ISBN: Faster camera barcode scanner for scanning ISBN barcodes
- New setting “Show Read-It” for showing/hiding Read-It eye icons from list and details
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A small update for your CLZ Games app today, in which we rectify a big mistake we make in version 9.0 (two mistakes in fact). Also, we improved the camera barcode scanner and introduced a new setting for customizing your app.
Summary of today’s changes:
- Game values are back in the Add Games screen
- Check Values screen now accessible for “grandfathered” users too
- Faster camera barcode scanner for adding games by barcode
- New setting in Settings screen “Show Completed”
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The best day of the week: NCBD! Quite a difference compared to last week. We have worked on 545 new releases and 255 actual new unique issues.
Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance #2 releases this week. This gives us a continuation of what was hinted at in the previous issue: The Hood (Parker Robbins) as Ghost Rider! After a slight delay, Moon Man sees their #2 releasing this week. A few facsimiles are also due this week, don’t forget to pick those up if you get the chance!
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through your trusted Add Comics screen.
TIP: use the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen to see all this week’s releases in one place!
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For this update, we have improved the camera barcode scanner, to make better use of the power of today’s devices, both in terms of camera resolution and computing power.
The scanning should now be faster, that is, it should be quicker in picking up the barcode from the camera image. The difference is most noticeable when scanning the longer 12+2 and 12+5 digit barcode found on today’s comic books.
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Are you ready for some nice Comic Connect updates? Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks, as multiple improvements and new features are coming up. Today is the first one, a special addition for CovrPrice subscribers:
Value Totals for any issue list
A common request from CovrPrice subscribers has been: How can I see the total value for a Series? Or per Storage Box? Or per Publisher?
So here’s our solution: a CovrPrice value total is now always showing at the top, next to the issue counter!
Combined with the Folder tool, this gives you values for any sub-selection of your collection you can think of, per Series, or per Storage Box, per Cover Artist, per Grading Company, per Tag, etc…
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v9.1 Add cover images for “unrecognized barcodes” / Update cover images from Core
Just over two months ago, we released a huge v9.0 upgrade for the CLZ Movies app. But today, we’re back already, with a v9.1 update with two improvements related to cover images, a nice new setting for further customizing your app and finally, an improvement to the barcode scanner.
- Add cover images for “Unrecognized Barcodes”
- Update from Core now also let you REPLACE cover images
- New “Hide Seen It” setting
- Faster barcode scanner
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NCBD! Not as many as the previous weeks, we have worked on 395 new releases and 158 actual new unique issues.
Rat City releases this week which gives us a Spider-Man 2099/ Batman Beyond spin on the Spawn universe. Another Disney character has been added to Dynamite’s comic title roster: Hercules! Edge of Spider-Verse gives us a new Spider-Man variant but this time in space. Issue 2 of Batman / Dylan Dog releases this week, that has been a solid read so far!
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through your trusted Add Comics screen.
TIP: use the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen to see all this week’s releases in one place!
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A big update for your Music Connect web-based software today, which is all about pick list fields.
Pick list fields (and the pick lists behind them) are an important part of your music database. These are the fields in the Edit screen that let you pick from a list of possible values, with that list being fully configurable by you the user.
Examples of pick list fields are Location, Owner, Genres and Tags (both multi value pick list fields), but also Artist and Label.
Now, a lot of the questions we usually get about Music Connect are related to pick list fields and can usually be answered with:
“Just use the Manage Pick Lists screen”
Renaming Locations, Merging duplicate Artists, fixing artist sort problems, fixing typos in musician names, etc… it is all done in the Manage Pick Lists (MPL) screen. An important and powerful screen, but… not so easy to find if you don’t know where to look or don’t even know what to look for.
With today’s Connect update, we are making this a lot easier: We have improved the Manage Pick Lists screen itself AND made it more accessible / discoverable:
In short:
- Improved Manage Pick Lists (MPL) screen
- Easy access to the MPL screen right from the folder panel
- Refreshed Edit Comic screen, with better pick list fields and direct MPL access
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