Software and app updates released in 2011 (page 2)
Our clz.com domain is now the new home of the Collectorz.com mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. Currently, only the CLZ Barry product site is on the clz.com domain, but we will soon movie the product pages of all other CLZ mobile apps here.
Just a quick message to Barry Club members to let you know that Apple has approved our CLZ Barry 1.0.2 build and it’s now live in the App Store.
This build 2 fixes the crashes some Comic Collector users have reported, plus a couple of other problems (full What’s New list is included below).
If you own an iPhone 3G or better, iPod touch 4th gen or an iPad 2,
then now’s the time to buy Barry.
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Great news: our CLZ Barry wireless barcode scanner app
has just been approved by Apple and is now live in the App Store!
Finally you can scan barcodes with your phone’s camera and
wirelessly send them to your PC or Mac, to any program,
any text box, including of course all Collectorz software!
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Movie Collector 8 was reviewed by Harry Thomas of the San Antonio Express-News.
“I had bypassed upgrading my Movie Collector database software from version 6 to 7 because I didn’t see any point in it. The new features they were advertising weren’t necessary for my collection. But when they announced version 8 a few weeks ago, something caught my eye: the addition of trailers.
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Our current Mac OS X developer Dinh has been offered a great job in San Francisco (congrats!) and thus will be leaving Collectorz.com.
Which means we are looking for a new Mac OS X developer to help us finalize the new Comic Collector for Mac and to create major upgrades of the Mac editions of Movie, Book and Music Collector.
Are you experienced in Mac OS X programming, or fluent in iOS development, or a smart programmer interested in Mac development? Then read on…
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It’s been a while since the last Barry news, so time for an update:
ETA ???
During all the V8 chaos, Pim, AJ and Sven continued their work on CLZ Barry.
And I am happy to announce that the iPhone edition is almost finished.
We’re planning to submit it to Apple tomorrow.
After that, Pim will focus on the Android edition, trying to finish that one
as soon as possible. However, we probably can’t stick to our plan to release
both editions simultaneously.
It would be crazy to deliberately hold back the release of the iPhone edition.
I think we’ll just release the iPhone app as soon as Apple give us the “go”,
then launch the Android app when ready, probably 2 or 3 weeks later.
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On Tuesday (4 days ago), we launched Movie Collector V8 for Windows. Since then, over 5,000 users have already upgraded to the new version!
Not surprisingly, because the list of shiny new features is huge. However, the list is getting longer.
You see, one day after the release a smart user sent us a brilliant suggestion that we just had to implement:
* Why can’t we use the movie backdrops as the background for the details panel?
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Yes, it’s finally available: Movie Collector for Windows!
When users send us feature requests for a new version of Movie Collector,
most of the suggestions tend to be about the Add Movies Automatically feature
and the automatically downloaded data from our online movie database.
So for Movie Collector 8, that is what we focused on:
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On June 28 one of our customers tweeted “@collectorz I am loving the Comic software and scanner. Cannot find in the instructions how to catalog without re-reading old issues ;-)”
This resulted in comments like ” I have that problem myself – though I’m not complaining about it” and “It must be an epidemic. I’m suffering that disease as well”.
Being a collector too, I suffer from that illness as well.
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2 questions we were getting more and more often:
- How can I buy multiple licenses or barcode scanners in one go? (preferably at a discount)
- Can I get some extra discount if I buy Movie Collector and Book Collector at the same time?
Not anymore. As of yesterday, our Collectorz.com shop has built-in and automatically applied Quantity and Bundle discounts.
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On July 12, just 2 weeks from now, we will release a major upgrade of
Movie Collector for Windows: V8.
The V8 Preview Page already contains some teaser screen shots, but in a few days V8 Club members will receive full details about the first big improvement in V8.
To make sure you receive that email, and to get access to the Preview Page …
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CLZ Barry is our new wireless barcode scanner app for iPhone and Android.
Scan barcodes with your mobile phone’s built-in camera, then instantly beam them to your Windows or Mac OS X computer.
This week, we will send the first preview email to all Barry Club members,
with more feature information and of course, new screen shots.
Make sure you don’t miss out on this email and join the Barry Club now:
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Last week, we told you about a “secret” project we were working on:
Project B. We also gave you a hint, the Project B logo (on the left).
This post generated many guesses on Facebook and Twitter,
and we were happy to see that most of you guessed correctly:
Project B is a wireless barcode scanner app. And it’s called:
CLZ Barry !
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There’s two big projects going on at the Collectorz.com HQ. Ronald, Robbert, Sven, Martin, Rowdy and Alain are working on the biggest one.
But next to that, Pim, AJ and Alwin are working on a completely new Collectorz.com product. Let’s call it Project B for now.
We won’t tell you what it is yet, but here’s a hint: the logo / icon.
More information will be revealed next week, when we’ll start the Project B Preview Club. Keep an eye on your inbox for the Club invitation.
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We’ve started implementing the Collectorz.com characters on our website and banners. AJ has created several new ads and Alwin has added Mickie and CeCe to the Movie Collection Software and Comic Collection Software homepages.
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After creating Mickie, we had to figure out how we wanted her to appear in our DVD database ads and banners. We normally use horizontal, vertical and square format material so she should strike a pose fitting the screen size.
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We finally did it. We released Comic Collector for Mac. Phew… Certainly the most problematic project in Collectorz.com history. But it’s live, and users love it! The full story in topic 3 below.
The topics today:
- Online database survery – The results
- The Collectorz.com promo babes
- Comic Collector for Mac OS X is live!
- Life after Comic Collector for Mac …
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In our April newsletter, we asked for your feedback on our online databases, the databases that provide the data and images for your Add Automatically screen.
We created 5 surveys, one for each database, and asked you to rate a list of possible problems, choosing from “Not a problem for me”, “Could be improved” and “Yeah, this sucks!”.
We’re happy that a lot of people took the time to complete these surveys. We received 3,251 responses!
Thank you all for you help!
We have created nice bar charts of the responses we received for all 5 surveys, with orange bars for “Not a problem”, blue bars for “Could be improved” and purple bars for “Yeah, this sucks!”.
Looking at the charts below, we’re happy to see a lot of orange and only small purple areas. It seems that overall, you all are quite happy with the results of our online databases. 🙂
Read on for results in more details, for each of the five online databases.
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Comic Collector users know her for quite some time: CeCe. She is our action heroine and features in the comic cataloguing software, on banners, ads and on the website. She brings our software to life and that is why we asked the creator of CeCe, LoopyDave, to give her four siblings for the DVD, CD, book and game collection software.
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Yes, after many months of programming and testing, and several delays,
it has finally arrived: Comic Collector for Mac OS X!
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