Unicode symbols

On one software catalog site in Chine I have found a small description of our product: Collection Studio 是一款收藏记录软件，可以帮你记录你的收藏品的信息，并通过不同的视图来显示你所有或部分收藏品的特点。(共享软件). I hope there goes only positive remarks

But browsing that site, I thought about one small problem - CollectionStudio has no support of Unicode symbols, therefore we have no interface translation on Chinese nor in Persian or in Arabic language. Further more it is not so easy to use mixed language characters in document on PC with different installed or selected interface language. This makes inconvenience for many of our users. I believe that we will change this situation may be not in next version, but during this year for sure.

Stay tuned.

Posted by serge, 19 Januar 2010. Post has 0 comments.
Chinese language unicode

Country flags

Many our users suggest newer flags for omitted countries in our CollectionStudio database. We always try to add them in new release. But it takes some time. Therefore our users have suggested to add possibility to manage country flags within CollectionStudio without building of the new version.

This is rather good suggestion (and we will implemented this one day); But we think that CS should have more setup for work with collectibles comparing to the work with information properties of collectible parameters. Yes, it is more convenient to have a list of countries with flags, the view is more nice-looking, but these flags add no additional information by itself.

When CollectionStudio starts, we want that our users will concentrate on the list of their collectibles or on its sampling. They need lots of fetch tools, special sort procedures, export and import, synchronization, check lists, light boxes, grouping and so on. This is a aim of each CS versions during all years that CS is available online.

Hmm, what we are talking about?... country flags! Here they are:

A pie chart of all the colours used in all of the world's sovereign-state flags.

Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined.

Posted by serge, 28 Oktober 2009. Post has 0 comments.
country CS flag

5 years cake

Our long celebration of the 5 years that Collection Studio is online comes to the end. For this special event we had a holiday cake in our small development team:

After the "cut" you will see a small cake animation (700k), created by our photoshop guru and designer Nadine...

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Posted by serge, 27 Oktober 2009. Post has 2 comments.
5 years cake

5 years online

Today, we celebrate 5 online years of the Collection Studio. In 2004, 17 September, the first public version of the CollectionStudio 1.27 was uploaded on the www.collectionstudio.com web-site. Yes, it was five years ago:

At first steps the program was written as a special tool for amateur banknote and coins collectors and now according to lot of changes, users’ suggestions from the entire World, new features and tools, according to support additional collectibles, including custom collectible, CS became very powerful software. It became a Studio, not a regular software or second-rate application.

All this essential improvements were reached only using your support, my dear users. And it was very important for us, to hear from you every your opinion and suggestions. Therefore from today and all next 30 days, we will provide a special offer for every new customer of our collectors’ software. Just use the following coupon code: SAND-68J8.

Let’s celebrate this great day together!

Posted by serge, 17 September 2009. Post has 0 comments.
5 years offer release