News: all updates for our software and apps (News) (page 5)
We have just released version 1.1 updates for all our Androids apps.
IMPORTANT:
These 1.1 updates are *only* available in the Android Market.
If you originally purchased your Android app(s) via the Android Market, then you can just use the Market on your device to update to v1.1.
However: if you original bought your app via the shop on the Collectorz.com website, you will have to re-download from the Market to get version 1.1. Read on for more details about this.
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It is live: the Android edition of CLZ Barry!
Finally you can scan barcodes with your Android’s camera and wirelessly send them to your PC or Mac, to any program, any text box, including of course all Collectorz software!
Buy the CLZ Barry app for Android ( US $7.99 ) here,
or just search for “clz barry” in the Android Market on your device itself.
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On February 15 2011, we launched Comic Collector 5 for Windows. It introduced the possibility to add comics by barcode, an improved Add Auto screen, automatic Preview Art, the new Find Cover Online tool and much more.
Of course we continue to improve our software, so yesterday we released version 5.1.
And by the way, the image above is the New startup “splash” screen featuring CeCe!
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A quick progress update on CLZ Barry for Android: The Android is coming along nicely. Almost all functionality has been implemented now.
The ETA is still: Tuesday September 13.
At the moment, Pim and AJ are focusing on the look and feel. Because of that, the app has finally reached a state where we could make a couple of screen shots that are quite close to the final look.
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Yes, we’re upgrading the hardware of the Collectorz.com central online database server again.
This server is the host of all five online media databases, for movies, books, music, comic books and video games.
In other words, this central machine is the source of all search results, the items details and all cover images that you get when using your Add Automatically screen.
Our Connect web-apps, the online editions of our software, are also located on this database server.
And finally, it runs the online part of the CLZ Barry system. It is this machine that generates your Barry ID for you and what lets Barry and Buddy “talk to each other”.
You can imagine how important this server is to us and to you all, our customers 🙂 Ensuring this system is fast and always up and running is essential. So that’s why we’re giving it more powerrr !
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In last year’s major upgrades for all Windows edition, we introduced the Find Cover feature. A simple way to find missing cover images using a Google Images search. Just point and click to add found images to your database entries.
This feature has proven to be very popular, so this week we added it to all Connect editions.
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Here’s a cool video showing how CLZ Barry can be used with the Collectorz.com programs.
Like what you see? Then get CLZ Barry for iPhone/iPad here
or just to go the App Store on your iPhone or iPad and search for “clz barry”.
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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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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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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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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