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Our programmer Robbert has been working on it behind the scenes for many months now, so we’re happy that we can finally tell you what it is:
Collectorz.com Core
Core is a new system that lets all Collectorz.com users help us improve the quality and completeness of our central online databases. It will replace the current “Submit to Collectorz.com” system. But Core is more than that, as it also lets you report data errors, missing entries and missing barcodes.
The book edition of Collectorz.com Core is live now and fully integrated in today’s 8.1 release of Book Collector for Windows. Read more
The Collectorz.com cataloging software retrieves the details per title from our own databases for movies, music, books, comics and games. New releases instantly hit our top 10, even in pre-release phase or before the movie is released on DVD or Blu-ray.
The database statistics are live and up to date, which gives excellent info on the movies you like, have seen, are on your wish list or just bought on DVD.
This weeks’ top 5 movies from our movie database, according to you:
1. Man on a Ledge
2. Safe House
3. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol
4. Underworld: Awakening
5. Iron Sky
On May 13 we welcomed our 30,000 fan on the Collectorz.com Facebook page.
30.000 likes!
Thirty thousand!
Thank you all for connecting with us on Facebook.
To celebrate, we were giving away cool Collectorz.com goodies: 5 super-rare Collectorz.com bags featuring CC, plus 25 Collectorz.com mousepads (see pic).
A very happy Collectorz.com customer has sent us gifts!
Wow, a big thanks to the Federation Harley-Davidson Clubs Europe in Sweden for sending this surprise.
We have just released a major upgrade for Music Collector for Windows, version 10.
This version brings you improved handling of digital music files, plus many more functional and visual enhancements. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in V10.
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Free Comic Book Day is a single day – the first Saturday in May each year – when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely *FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores.
This year’s FCBD is on Saturday May 5. Use this tool to find a participating comic book store near you.
All major publishers have created a special comic of their heroes for FCBD. All 42 issues have already been added to our comic database for your convenience.
You’ll find them under ‘Free Comic Book Day 2012‘.
We’re ready for May 5!
Our Sunday was spent taking new pictures of our collections for the Collectorz.com website.
We have been using the same pictures for more than 2 years now and it was about time to refresh them. Alwin’s picture is used on the Music, Movie and Game Collector home, I’m on the Comic and Book pages.
We are collectors ourselves. Between us we share close to 800 CDs, 661 DVDs and Blu-rays, 944 comics, 389 books and 528 video games.
And counting of course. 🙂
Yep, it is finally going to happen : Music Collector 10 for Windows and Mac!
Our Windows and Mac programmers Ronald and Patrick are working simultaneously on the New Music Collector and it is going to be a close call who releases first.
But it is Ronald who will release first and wins the X race, Music Collector for Windows will be released early May.
Patrick will follow suit, the major upgrade for Mac will be released by the end of May.
Quote from the article in the Columbia Daily Tribune:
“Hobbyist databases don’t get much better than the Collector Series from Collectorz.com. The brainchild of Alwin Hoogerdijk, this Amsterdam-based publisher has been fine-tuning and expanding his line of specialty PIMs for the past 12 years.”
Local computer consultant Scott A. May reviewed Movie Collector for his own movie collection and liked very much what he saw.
“Managing data doesn’t have to be a dreary chore. In fact, it can be a lot of fun, especially if the information you need to organize pertains to something you find fun.”
You can read the complete story here.
Most of you have probably heard all about this new service in the February 2012 edition of the Collectorz.com Newsletter, but here’s a short summary.
In October 2009, we launched Collectorz.com Connect, our fully online software for cataloging and sharing your collections. By now, many new customers are opting for just Connect to catalog their books, movies, CDs, comics or video games.
On top of that, a lot of users of the desktop software for PC & Mac have added a Connect subscription, to share and manage their collection data online.
However, we are so proud of Connect, that we want even more desktop users to experience the joys of accessing and sharing their collection data online.
I mean, how cool is this!
So we have made a BIG change.
Today is release day of Book Collector 8 for Mac OS X!
All things games site Digitally Downloaded.net reviewed Game Collector.
“Collectorz.com’s Game Collector solves one of the (few) downsides to digitally downloadable games; that you end up with a library of games that you don’t have sitting on a shelf. This can at times make it hard to keep track of everything that you own, especially if you’ve got multiple consoles and stuff stored on a range of devices.”
The reviewer sure had fun entering his own personal collection. After he entered his games, he started playing with the data instead of playing with his new PS Vita 🙂
“So what happens next? Now it’s time to play with the masses of data that you’ve accured. Games can be filtered in whatever way you like, so if you want to get an easy overview of the order in which you really do like your Final Fantasy games, you can filter out that information.”
Read the complete review here.
Our CLZ apps were apps of the day at ARN Australia.
The verdict: “For those who like keeping a personal catalogue of their collections, it really doesn’t get better than this.”
Read the complete review here.
It’s finally happening, a new major version of Book Collector for Mac OS X!
Completely rewritten *from scratch*, with a faster database system,
a more Mac-like user interface and of course, many new features.
And it’s *very* close now, because development is going so smooth that we will be able to release it 3 weeks earlier than originally planned!
Current ETA of Book Collector 8 for Mac is: Tuesday March 6, 2012.
Check out this cool review of Comic Collector and CLZ Comics HD for iPad over at the GVE-Podcast.com.
“Over the years I tried many times to properly catalog my ever-growing comic book collection. Once, when there were only a few hundred, I think I had them in a notebook – problem being that I’d run out of space on a page for additional issues if it wasn’t planned right, and keeping things in numeric order was tedious. Next was a smaller version of my collection on a single sheet of paper, in Word or some word processing program, just listing title and issue number. Convenient to keep in my pocket as a “want-it-got-it” list, but impossible to keep complete or neat, and got lost along the way somewhere. Much later, I developed a spreadsheet to enter in my collection, but the shortcomings were still huge. It was unwieldy, required lots of time to manually enter the numbers (right click, insert line, grrrr…) and was a work in progress as I discovered how tough it was to categorize and then find things again. It couldn’t be carried with me or easily converted into a want list suitable for carrying. With renumbering, new volumes and multiple special editions and deluxe editions, it became evident that just issue numbers weren’t enough – and when you’ve got a collection this size, issue numbers mean increasingly less as the old brain doesn’t connect with all of them anymore. It didn’t take long before I lost interest totally.
Problems solved thanks to Collectorz. Take a peek.”
As you know, Movie Collector 8 for Mac is live and has already received a
number of maintenance builds to fix bugs and tweak the user interface.
Movie Collector 8 for Mac screen shots.
Also, we released a nice update of Comic Collector for Mac (v5.2), introducing
the Backdrops feature, the new toolbar and the Field Defaults screen:
Comic Collector 5 for Mac screen shots
So what’s up next? Read more
Any Music Collector users in the UK and reading Mojo Magazine? You may find our Music Collector ad in the January, February and March issues.
It’s finally here, Movie Collector 8 for Mac OS X!
For Movie Collector 8, we focused on:
** More and better automatic data for movies:
IMDb ratings, movie trailers, movie posters, movie backdrops and more plot summaries (in English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish).
** More and better automatic data for more TV Series and their episodes:
Full episode lists with: titles, air dates, plots, runtimes, writers, directors, guest cast and screen grab images.
( and yes, you *can* use Update Movies Automatically to auto-download the extra data to your existing database entries! )
But that’s not all.
*** The entire Collectorz.com team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012! ***
On Tuesday December 20 we celebrated Christmas at the office. The festive evening started with the unwrapping of presents.
Here is a progress update on our Mac development.
Currently, our focus (and therefore this news update) is on Movie Collector 8 for Mac, which is planned to be released on December 27.
As soon as Movie Collector 8 is live, we’ll start on Book Collector 8 for Mac, which we hope to release before the end of Q1 2012. Next up after that is of course Music Collector, planned for launch late Q2 2012.
Anyway, back to Movie Collector.
We have been sending out our monthly email newsletters since June 2007. One of the best read topics have always been the Meet The Collector stories.
These were short stories from collectors themselves and how they use our software to organize their valuables. Some were long, some short, but they were always a great read.
It’s finally happening, a new major version of Movie Collector for Mac OS X!
And it’s *very* close now: We’re currently aiming for December 27.
Completely rewritten *from scratch*, with a faster database system
a more Mac-like user interface and of course, many new features.
What’s New in V8 for Mac?
- More and better automatic data for MOVIES :
IMDb ratings, movie trailers, movie posters, movie backdrops and
more plot summaries (in english, dutch, french, german and spanish). - More and better automatic data for TV SERIES and their episodes :
Full episode lists with: titles, air dates, plots, runtimes,
writers, directors, guest cast and screen grab images.
Way back when in 1996 Alwin Hoogerdijk, founder of Collectorz.com and my hubby, was sitting on a stack of CDs that were driving him insane. He finally got fed up with trying to remember what he had and where it was. So, he locked himself in a room and started writing a program that would keep track of everything for him.
You see, Alwin is a music lover by nature and a computer programmer by profession.
Inventory is hot. To know exactly what you have is both fun and gives peace of mind. You probably know this already since you have cataloged your shelves and can find your way in your DVDs, books, comics, CDs or games. Of course it took you time and effort to do so, but time well spent.
But did you know that there are people out there who can do it for you?
It’s finally here, Book Collector 8 for Windows!
This may very well be the biggest Book Collector upgrade ever,
as we worked on both program features *and* on better automatic book data.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in V8:
Read more