News: all updates for our software and apps (page 5)
New:
- We changed the “buy now” text link into a big blue button so it’s more clear!
Fixed:
- In some cases logging in to an existing account after starting Free Mode would cause problems with adding.
New:
- We changed the “buy now” text link into a big blue button so it’s more clear!
Fixed:
- In some cases logging in to an existing account after starting Free Mode would cause problems with adding.
CLZ Comics is now free to use up to 250 comic books, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 250 comics? Then subscribe (US $20 per year or US $2 per month) and add as many comics as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 250 comics first!
Fixed:
- In some cases logging in to an existing account after starting Free Mode would cause problems with adding.
Een bericht van CLZ in het Nederlands, dat is raar he?
Voor deze keer maken we een uitzondering, want we willen onze Nederlandse klanten graag uitnodigen op het leukste comic evenement van het jaar:
“Comics in the Middle of Nowhere”, op 8 juni (volgende week zaterdag)
In het dorpje “Middel”, in de buurt van Deventer, organiseren onze vrienden van ShortBox Comics een uniek en gratis comic evenement, gewoon in een weiland in Nederland.
CLZ is aanwezig met 4 mensen en zal gedurende de dag demo’s van de CLZ app geven.
We zouden het leuk vinden om je daar te ontmoeten. We delen gratis CLZ sleutelshangers uit op de CLZ stand!
Hieronder de volledige informatie van de organisatie:
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CLZ Movies is now free to use up to 100 movies, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 movies? Then subscribe (US $20 per year) and add as many albums as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 movies first!
CLZ Music is now free to use up to 100 albums, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 albums? Then subscribe (US $15 per year) and add as many albums as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 albums first!
CLZ Games is now free to use up to 100 games, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 games? Then subscribe (US $20 per year) and add as many games as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 games first!
CLZ Books is now free to use up to 100 books, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 books? Then subscribe (US $15 per year) and add as many books as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 books first!
We’re nearing the end of the month, so let’s go over the CLZ News for May 2024.
This month, we released the fifth and final v9 mobile app: CLZ Music 9.0. In the meantime, CLZ Comics already saw its 9.2 release, with v9.3 coming up soon!
For your computer, the web-based software is getting lots of attention. Two feature updates for Comic Connect, and a big structural improvement to the search features for all Connect flavors.
Finally, there’s still a lot of work going on for our Core projects for movies and games, still checking and replacing thousands of cover images each week. I hope the gamers and movie fans among you are already enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Today’s topics:
- CLZ mobile apps:
- CLZ Music 9.0: Collection tabs, better Add Albums screen, easy people filtering
- CLZ Comics 9.2: Improved “Updated Values” screen, after updating from CovrPrice
- Coming up: CLZ Comics 9.3, with completely revised Pull List features
- Connect web-based software
- Comic Connect: use Edit Multiple to set Creators & Characters
- Comic Connect: Jump to Issue feature (aka “the sniper button”)
- Music/Movie/Book/Games Connect: Improved search behaviour
- CLZ Core updates:
- Core for Games: “Check Covers” project, 92.2% cloud coverage!
- Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 62.8% cloud coverage!
- Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary
- Join the Club CLZ forum, to talk to us and other users!
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NCBD is nigh! We worked on 435 new releases with 195 actual new unique issues. Marvel is releasing a few important titles this week with Hellverine #1, X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 and Avengers: Twilight #6.
Image is releasing a bunch of $1 reprints for big titles from the last few years. Boom! gives us a 3rd issue for Dune: House Corrino. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Return #4 gives us what feels like a final battle, which was what this story was leading up to. Happy reading!
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through the Pull List tab in your trusted Add Comics screen.
BTW: did you know we are working on a complete refresh of this Pull List tab feature? We are also renaming it to “NCBD” to better fit it’s functionality!
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In today’s update, we improved the behaviour after searching using the search box top right.
Previously, when you selected a movie from the “suggestions dropdown”, the software would take you to a separate full screen page showing the details of that movie. This behaviour was a bit annoying as it would take you away from the main screen and you needed to click “Back” on the top left to get back to it. Also, the main screen would then show you the full collection again and would be scrolled back at the top again. Meh..
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In today’s update, we improved the behaviour after searching using the search box top right.
Previously, when you selected a game from the “suggestions dropdown”, the software would take you to a separate full screen page showing the details of that game. This behaviour was a bit annoying as it would take you away from the main screen and you needed to click “Back” on the top left to get back to it. Also, the main screen would then show you the full collection again and would be scrolled back at the top again. Meh..
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In today’s update, we improved the behaviour after searching using the search box top right.
Previously, when you selected a book from the “suggestions dropdown”, the software would take you to a separate full screen page showing the details of that book. This behaviour was a bit annoying as it would take you away from the main screen and you needed to click “Back” on the top left to get back to it. Also, the main screen would then show you the full collection again and would be scrolled back at the top again. Meh..
Read more
In today’s update, we improved the behaviour after searching using the search box top right.
Previously, when you selected an album from the “suggestions dropdown”, the software would take you to a separate full screen page showing the details of that album. This behaviour was a bit annoying as it would take you away from the main screen and you needed to click “Back” on the top left to get back to it. Also, the main screen would then show you the full collection again and would be scrolled back at the top again. Meh..
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A common situation for most users of the Comic Connect web-app: finding a specific issue in your comic database. Up till now, the way to do this was: first find the series (using the search box top right, or the search box above the series folder list), then just scroll down the issue list to find the issue you were looking for. It worked, but could take some time, especially for series with lots of issues.
So to avoid the annoying scrolling part, we created a new “Jump to Issue” feature (aka “the sniper button”)
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The best day of the week has arrived: NCBD!
The CLZ team has worked on 507 new releases, for 244 actual new unique issues. Big week with big titles: Amazing Spider-Man #50. The newest volume has hit a milestone! Something is Killing the Children is back: Hard to fathom that this title is already 5 years old, time flies…
DC’s Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #27 continues their Bat-Mite universe story in this issue.
Happy reading!
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through the Pull List tab in your trusted Add Comics screen.
BTW: did you know we are working on a complete refresh of this Pull List tab feature? We are also renaming it to “NCBD” to better fit it’s functionality!
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Fixed:
- Side menu now goes “over” the list and doesn’t “squash” the list anymore
- In some cases an invisible filter could hide some comics
v9.2: Improved “Updated Values” screen, after updating from CovrPrice
CLZ Comics 9.2 is live and this one is for the CovrPrice subscribers!
After using the “Update Values” tool from the menu, to update the values from CovrPrice, the apps shows you a report of which values have change and by how much. For today’s v9.2 update, we re-designed this report and added some new features:
- Tap a comic to pop up a screen with the full comic details
- Now sort your list by the Value Change or by the Value itself
- Filter the list by Collection Status, e.g. to show In Collection comics only
- The list now includes Variant Descriptions!
- Finally: a completely redesign of the list entries to make it more readable
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Another New Comic Book Day has arrived! We worked on 386 new releases with 182 actual new unique issues. A lot less compared to the last few weeks. Marvel gives us the origin of their most popular New Champion: Maystorm in Ultimate X-Men #3. Doctor Doom also gets a new #1 which has Jonathan Hickman on it as the writer. A new House of Slaughter is here from BOOM! Studios. And DC is slowly ramping up their Absolute Power event with Suicide Squad: Dream team #3. Happy reading!
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through your trusted Add Comics screen. TIP: use the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen to see all this week’s releases in one place!
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CLZ Music 9 Feature Hilite: improvements to the Add Albums screen
Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about another area of improvement in last week’s CLZ Music v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1 about the collection tab-bar, you can read it here).
Today, we are going to discuss the various improvements we implemented for the Add Albums screen:
- Quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
- Search results now also show the number of discs, making it easier to spot multi-disc album entries
- Improved process of combining discs into a multi-disc album
- Adding by Barcode: Faster camera scanner for scanning barcodes
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Last week’s CLZ Music 9.0 update was a big one, with 3 areas of improvement. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do three “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.
Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the new collections tab-bar.
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New Comic Book Day, the best day of the week! We worked on 439 new releases with 200 actual new unique issues. Marvel gives us 6 tie-ins for their Blood Hunt event this week. Ain’t No Grave #1 releases this week from Image Comics, a creation from Skottie Young and Jorge Corona. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees comes to an end with #6. DC Comics’ Batman #147 continues on Amanda Waller’s antics where we get to see a new creation from Failsafe…
All new books are now available in the CLZ Core online database, easily found through your trusted Add Comics screen. TIP: use the Pull List tab in the Add Comics screen to see all this week’s releases in one place!
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Fixed:
- The app could crash on startup
- New items in a pick list would sometimes appear out of view
