News: all updates for our software and apps (page 2)
Adding comics by barcode is one the main features app and an essential part of that is the 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 cameras and computing power.
And the results of his tweaks are amazing. The scanner is now much faster!
The difference in scanning speed will be especially noticable when scanning the longer barcodes seen on modern comics, with a 2 digit or 5 digit extension. Correctly scanning that extension is essential for identifying the exact issue and variant.
We would love to hear how the new scanner works out for you, please let us know in this Club CLZ post here!
A more compact NCBD. With this week we have 476 new releases and 208 actual new unique issues. Ghost Machine is releasing their universe with Rook: Exodus, Redcoat and Geiger getting a new volume. Deadpool is being re-launched along with a new issue for Grim (Boom! Studios). Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Transformers this week, a bunch of reprints for issue 1 through 4 are due this week!
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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This build fixes a couple of crashes that have been reported through our systems.
Since November 2021, CLZ has been providing you Key Comic information for your comics, like first appearances, cameo appearance, deaths, iconic covers, etc.. Up till now, we have been indicating the importance of Key Comics using Major Key (yellow) and Minor Key (blue) designations.
However, starting today, we are renaming Major and Minor and are introducing several extra Key Comic importance levels, so that we can give you a more granular indication of a comic’s importance.
Here’s an overview of the new Key Comic levels, with some examples:
We hope you will enjoy these new key indicators!
Got any questions or feedback? Please post your comment in the special topic on the Club CLZ forum here!
Fixed:
- Sync with CLZ Cloud: A crash could occur during downsyncing
This is Alwin, the CLZ guy, with your CLZ News for March 2024.
This month, the main events were an enormous v9.0 update for the CLZ Games mobile app and a nice CLZ Comics 9.1 update with 2 often requested features. With these alive and kicking, our mobile devs Pim, Bernard are proceeding with v9 updates for the CLZ Books and Music apps!
Also, a big update for all Connect flavors is imminent. AJ and Joe are doing the final testing and fixing at this very moment. Launch next week?
In the meantime, our content team is still checking and correcting lots of video game cover images, and have also proceeded to do the same for movie cover images. The improvements should already be noticeable in your software!
Today’s topics:
- App and software updates:
- CLZ Games 9.0: better Add by Title, Collection tabs, Check Value, etc…
- CLZ Comics v9.1 use Edit Multiple to set Creators & Characters
- Coming up: big “pick lists” update for all Connect flavors
- Coming up: big v9 updates for CLZ Books and CLZ Music
- CLZ Core updates:
- Core for Games: “Wrong Covers” project, 89% cloud coverage!
- Core for Movies: “Wrong Covers” project, 24% cloud coverage!
- Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
- Sign up for the Club CLZ forum, over 3,500 members now!
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New:
- Check Value screen will now highlight titles/barcodes to show if you already have them in your collection (blue = in collection)
- Added 3 new platform icons: MSX, MSX 2 and Atomiswave
Fixed for iOS:
- Search as you Type was not working in the “Check Value” screen (by Title)
- A crash could occur on devices running iOS12
- Update from Core now leaves the value alone (use Update Values to get new values)
Fixed for Android:
- Sync with CLZ Cloud: A crash could occur during downsyncing
- Updating Game Values: A crash would occur on loading the “Updated Values” report
- Unrecognized Barcode: An error would show if no images were found for the barcode
After the huge version 9.0 update back in November 2023, our mobile team has been focusing on two big v9.0 updates for our CLZ Movies and CLZ Games apps.
But… we’re back working on CLZ Comics now, bringing you a nice v9.1 update, with two often requested features:
- Use Edit Multiple to set Creators and Characters for multiple comics in one go
- Tap a creator name in comic details to instantly see all comics he/she worked on
Next to that, we are working to improving the barcode scanning, this is now live for Android in this update. Coming up for iOS.
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NCBD! This week brings us 516 new releases and 223 actual new unique issues. Our eyes are on X-Force #50 and Monstress with both titles having their milestone issue this week. X-Men ’97 #1 to coincide with the show which is now on streaming. Don’t forget to pick up Sam and Twitch: Case Files #1, that’s looking like a good read.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite: Update from Core now lets you replace images
It’s Friday, so this is my fifth and final “CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite” email.
All five v9 Feature Hilites are now available on our CLZ Blog here, including lots of screenshots:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
- Hilite #3: The new Check Value screen
- Hilite #4: Dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”
- Hilite #5: Update from Core now lets you replace images
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This is “CLZ Games 9 Feature Hilite” number FOUR, all about dealing with barcodes that are not found in CLZ Core.
But first, if you missed an earlier feature hilite, you can still read them on our CLZ Blog here:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
- Hilite #3: The new Check Value screen
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Another weekly NCBD, this week brings us 547 new releases and 254 actual new unique issues. It has us excited for Star Wars: Visions – Takashi Okazaki #1 which gives Takashi Okazaki’s spin on the Star Wars Universe and is a continuation from the Star Wars Visions series. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #4 looks promising and don’t forget to pick up DC’s Ape-pril which also looks very a-peel-ing.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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It’s me again, CLZ Alwin, with this week’s third “clz games feature hilite” email. If you missed the first two, you can still read them here:
- Hilite #1: Improved adding games by title
- Hilite #2: The new collections tab-bar
Today’s feature hilite is about the brand-new “Check Value screen!
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Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about the next big feature of last week’s CLZ Games v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1, you can read it here).
Today, we are going to discuss the new collections tab-bar.
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Last week’s CLZ Games 9.0 update was HUGE one, with 5 big new improvements. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do five “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.
Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the improvement to the Add Games screen, in particular the Add by Title part.
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It’s that time again, our weekly New Comic Book Day activities. Today brings 221 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 503 new releases. TMNT almost comes to an end, a new Avengers Twilight releases and Wolverine’s Sabretooth War finishes up.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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v9.0: Improved Add by Title screen, Collection tabs, Check Value screen and more!
Version 9 is here, a huge update for your CLZ Games app. In fact, it may even be the biggest update we ever did for CLZ Games, with many new features and several big improvements.
On top of that, our content team has been working for months to check and correct game cover images, to make sure the cover image exactly matches the barcode (regular editions vs collector’s editions, US vs EU vs JP vs AU covers, etc…).
- Improved Adding Games by Title: big cover images for the various game editions (regional, collector’s editions, etc..), filter releases by Region (US, EU, JP, AU, etc.. )
- New collections tab-bar: switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- New Check Value screen: quickly look up the value of a game, by scanning its barcode or searching by title (requires subscription!)
- Improved Update from Core: now lets you replace cover images with better ones from Core
- Better screens for dealing with “unrecognized barcodes”
- More platforms icons: more platforms now come with their own icons
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There we go again, with our weekly New Comic Book Day festivities 🙂 Today brings 200 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 480 new releases. There is one new issue TMNT issue with a crazy number of variants: 55 !!!
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
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CLZ Alwin here, on this leap day, with the Feb 2024 edition of the CLZ Newsletter.
Of course, the big event this month was the v9.0 release of our CLZ Movies mobile app, which is now live for both iOS and Android. A huge update, with several new features and many big improvements. A similar update is coming up for CLZ Games, check the sneak preview below.
Our web developers are busy preparing a big update for the Connect web-based software, in which we add many improvements to the pick lists screen, for both selecting and managing pick lists.
As for updates this month, Connect is now available in Swedish!
On the Core side, we are making great progress on our Wrong Covers project, resulting in a “Check Covers Cloud Coverage” of 81% now! More info below.
Today’s topics:
- App and software updates:
- CLZ Movies 9.0 is live, for iOS and Android
- Connect: now available in Swedish. Looking for translators!
- Sneak Preview: CLZ Games 9.0
- CLZ Core updates:
- Core for Games: “Wrong Covers” project, 81% cloud coverage!
- Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
- Sign up for the Club CLZ forum, over 3,300 members now!
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An enormous update for the CLZ Games app is coming up within a few weeks, with the following new features and improvements:
- Improved Adding Games by Title: big cover images for the various game editions (regional, collector’s editions, etc..), filter releases by Region (US, EU, JP, AU, etc.. )
- New collections tab-bar: switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
- New Check Value screen: quickly look up the value of a game, by scanning its barcode or searching by title (requires subscription!)
- Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
- More platforms icons: more platforms now come with their own icons
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After a hectic morning, the CLZ content team just finished adding all of today’s new comic releases to our Core online comic database.
In total, today brings 502 new releases for 226 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
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Fixed:
- Sync with CLZ Cloud/Update from Core: Sometimes didn’t download all covers
- Edit Screen: The order of Month/Day would sometimes be wrong (i.e. if your phone was set to German)
- Add Movies: Add button could not be switched back to “In Collection” (if set to a different one)
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. 
Thanks to our translator Peter Stickler, the Connect web-based software is now available in Swedish!
If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:
- Norwegian
- Italian
CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite: new format icons / tap actor name to find all his movies
This is the fourth and final CLZ Movies 9 Feature Hilite email. In this one, I will go over 2 of the smaller improvements of version 9: the added format icon for digital and streaming format and the new ability to tap on actor name in the movie details to instantly see all movies that actor appeared in.
BTW: if you missed the earlier three v9 feature hilite emails, you can still read them on the CLZ Club forum here:
- Improved Adding Movies by Title
- The new Collections Tab Bar
- Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
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