News: all updates for our software and apps (page 15)

Yesterday, Youtuber Mystic (over 700 thousand subscribers) featured our CLZ Games app in a video where he is cataloging his games and checking their values.

Fixed:

• Several small Add Screen stability issues

Fixed:

• Several small Add Screen stability issues
• Sorting problems for certain fields
• Details panel would not show Chorus in specific cases

Fixed:

• Sorting problems for certain fields
• Several small Add Screen stability issues

Fixed:

• Sorting problems for certain fields
• Several small Add Screen stability issues

Fixed:

• Sorting problems for certain fields
• Several small Add Screen stability issues

Introduced in November 2021, the Update Key Info tool is one the biggest and most popular features of the Comic Collector software. It automatically gives you crucial information about your collection, that is, which of your comics are major keys, which ones are minor keys. Of course, it also tells you why, for example: first appearances of characters, deaths, cameo appearances, first team appearances, origins, iconic cover art, etc…

However, since we introduced this feature, one of the most requested improvements has become:

“After updating my key info, I would like to see WHICH comics were updated and WHAT has changed.”

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Fixed:

• Adding Albums by CDID didn’t allow you to select multiple results and add them “as multi-disc album” anymore.
• The alphabet bar wasn’t working correctly for albums with multiple artists where the name started with a number.
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• The program will now ask you if you’re sure you want to overwrite an existing file when using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” (this was already working for other export/save options).

Fixed:

• Add Movies screen: When adding “by IMDb”, the result list always kept the last searched IMDb result.
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• The program will now ask you if you’re sure you want to overwrite an existing file when using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” (this was already working for other export/save options).

Fixed

• When using “Update Value” on a game, it would sometimes grab the wrong value (e.g. loose+box while you asked for loose+manual)
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• When using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” the program will check if the file already exists.

Fixed:

• Update from Core Settings: The “Variant Description” field would reset to “leave as is” after restarting the program.
• Edit Screen: The “grader notes” field will now resize in height when you resize the edit screen.
• Edit Screen: when adding “local other files” on Links tab, and selecting multiple files in one go, it would just add multiple copies of the same file.
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• When using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” the program will check if the file already exists.

Fixed:

• Add Books screen could give an “Access Violation” error in 32-bits mode.
• When searching for a pseudonym of an author using the search (top right) in your main screen, hitting Enter would not produce the right results.
• Edit Screen: The “Signed By” field now grows in height when resizing it.
• Edit Screen: when adding “local other files” on Links tab, and selecting multiple files in one go, it would just add multiple copies of the same file.
• Dark Skin: In the Folder panel, we’ve made the barchart color a bit brighter.
• In the Pre-fill popup you could not select an “empty” item for pick lists.
• Sorting your list by date wasn’t always working properly.
• When using “Export to XML” or “Save Database As” the program will check if the file already exists.

On this last day of the month, let me (Alwin) give you an overview of this month’s releases, in the March 2023 edition of the CLZ newsletter.

This month was all about the full roll-out of our new “CLZ Scanner” barcode scanner app and about a cool new look for slabbed comics in our comic tools:

• New in March 2023::
  • 5 updates for the desktop software with support for our new CLZ Scanner app
  • New look for slabbed comics and 3 new slab related fields for all comic tools
• What’s cooking?
  • Multi-level folders for the CLZ mobile apps
  • Translations for the Connect web-based software
  • Two-factor authentication on CLZ Accounts

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As announced last weekend, here it is, Game Collector version 23.2 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

Also new in this version: Improved support for barcodes that were used over multiple series.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Games screen of the Game Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned games to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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As announced last weekend, here it is, Music Collector version 23 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

Also new in this version: Improved support for barcodes that were used over multiple series.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Music screen of the Music Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned albums to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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Fixed:

• An “Access Violation” error could pop up when switching from the “Series” tab to the “Barcode” tab in the Add Comics screen!

As announced last weekend, here it is, Movie Collector version 23.2 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

Also new in this version: Improved support for barcodes that were used over multiple series.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Movies screen of the Movie Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned movies to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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As announced last weekend, here it is, Comic Collector version 23.5 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

Also new in this version: Improved support for barcodes that were used over multiple series.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Comics screen of the Comic Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned comics to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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As announced last weekend, here it is, Book Collector version 23.1 for Windows, with full support for our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!

And as indicated earlier, support for the old CLZ Barry scanner app has now been removed.

What is CLZ Scanner?

The aptly-named “CLZ Scanner” is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less. It is an app that you use on your phone to scan barcodes and then instantly send those scanned barcodes to the Add Books screen of the Book Collector software running on your computer. From there, you can then easily and comfortably add the scanned books to your computer software.

CLZ Scanner replaces the old CLZ Barry app.

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Version 23.4 is here, a big update that is all about slabbed comics!

More and more Comic Collector users are using the app to catalog slabbed comics (CGC, CBCS, PGX, etc..). So let’s take our slab support to the next level!
Here’s what’s new in Comic Collector today:

• Three new slab-related fields: Label Type, Page Quality and Custom Label.
• A cool new look for your slabs in the Details Panel (“Flex” template only!)
• Four new options for the Grade field: NG, PG, CVR and ART.
• A new setting “For raw comics, show Grade as letters”

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Fixed:

• Sorting by value didn’t work for raw comics without a grade set
• Adding or Updating values for comics without grade didn’t fetch a value
• Fixed colors for generated slab label of Qualified Grade, Signature Series Restored, Signature Series Conserved

Version 8.3 is here, a big update that is all about slabbed comics!

More and more CLZ Comics users are using the app to catalog slabbed comics (CGC, CBCS, PGX, etc..). So let’s take our slab support to the next level!
Here’s what’s new in CLZ Comics 8.3:

• A cool new look for your slabs in Card View and the comic details page.
• Three new slab-related fields: Label Type, Page Quality and Custom Label.
• Four new options for the Grade field: NG, PG, CVR and ART.
• A new setting “For raw comics, show Grade as letters”

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Now live in your web-based Comic Connect software, a big update that is all about slabbed comics!

More and more CLZ Comics users are using the app to catalog slabbed comics (CGC, CBCS, PGX, etc..). So let’s take our slab support to the next level!
Here’s what’s new in Comic Connect today:

• Three new slab-related fields: Label Type, Page Quality and Custom Label.
• A cool new look for your slabs in Card View and Details Panel.
• Four new options for the Grade field: NG, PG, CVR and ART.
• A new setting “For raw comics, show Grade as letters”

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This is the Feb 2023 edition of the CLZ Newsletter, as always brought to you by CLZ Alwin.

This month, we were finally able to complete a project that a large part of the CLZ team had been working on for several months:
Our completely new, build from scratch, CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app!
The app itself is now available in the iOS App Store and Android Play Store and support for the CLZ Scanner app is already live in the Connect web-based software.

Sadly though, last week’s email to all Connect subscribers, happily announcing the CLZ Scanner, with instructions for “getting started”, has been the most misunderstood email I have written in many years…
That is, judging from the responses I have received. I have seen confusion, I have seen frustration, I have seen complaints, I have seen anger… one guy even threatened me of reporting my company to TrustPilot for being “harsh on seniors and people with medical issues”…
All that because we made a new and better barcode scanner app to replace CLZ Barry 🙁

I am still not entirely sure where I went wrong, but I will try to explain CLZ Scanner better in this newsletter and in future CLZ Scanner reminder emails. In any case, my apologies for all the confusion and frustration I caused!

In other news: CLZ is now on Instagram! I hired a 5-man full-time social media team to manage this new social channel, so here we go!
Just kidding of course, this is just a nice side-project for our comic content guys Taco and Justin 🙂 Let’s see where they takes us!

• New in Feb 2023::
  • Our new “CLZ Scanner” app is live!
  • CLZ Comics is now on Instagram!
• What’s cooking?
  • More slab-related fields for all comic products
  • Translations for the Connect web-based software
  • Multi-level folders for the CLZ mobile apps
  • Two-factor authentication on CLZ Accounts

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This is CLZ Alwin, with the first 2023 CLZ Newsletter.
Remember that in last month’s newsletter I had no releases to report on, because of the quiet December month? Well, we’re back on track, with 6 big releases in January. Two for the Collector desktop software, 2 for the Connect web-based software and 2 for the CLZ mobile apps!

And we have some interesting projects going on that will result in even bigger releases soon (check under What’s cooking below):

• Released in Jan 2023:
  • Book Collector 23.0 / CLZ Books 8.0 / Book Connect: 7 new data fields!
  • Comic Collector 23.3: Improved Pull List and new “Discover” mode!
  • CLZ Comics 8.2 / Comic Connnect: New report after Updating Key Info
• What’s cooking?
  • More slab-related fields for all comic products
  • New “CLZ Scanner” app, to replace CLZ Barry
  • Translations for the Connect web-based software
  • Multi-level folders for the CLZ mobile apps
  • Two-factor authentication on CLZ Accounts

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