February Development Report

As you may have seen in my previous post, the user view will soon be given a facelift as well as a functional lift. I can now reveal that full awards integration is coming at the same time. So soon you will know what movies and persons in your collection won domestic and international awards. You will also be able to base your own views on this.

A minor Book Label 2012 update is also in the works and should be released during Q1. The same thing goes for Music Label 2012.

Best,
Johan Petersson

November Development Report

Wow! The Music Label 2012 launch has been great. We are blown away by all the nice feedback. If you haven’t upgraded yet, make sure you take the new version for a spin because we have made some important improvements. You can also read more about the enhancements in this article:
http://www.codeaero.com/music-label/whatsnew.htm

At the moment we are working on minor updates for all three collector’s products. Movie Label, Music Label and Book Label will all get minor updates before the end of the year. There will be some minor enhancements and not only bug fixes. We hope to have them in your hands by Christmas!

We wish you all a wonderful December.

Best,
Johan Petersson

October Development Report

Happy Halloween Everyone!

A lot has happended since the last post a month ago. Book Label 2012 has now been released and is now widely available with an array of enhancements. A new minor update to Password Memory was also released a few days ago.

A minor Movie Label was released too and another one is in the pipeline for release next week. A big enhancement in this new update is much faster cover art retrieval. Apart from that, 7.1.2 contains a number of fixes.

Music Label 2012 is rapidly getting closer to release too. Our beta crew will get access to it within a week. We just need to put a finishing touch on it first. This also means that ordering Music Label 2011 now entitles you to a free update to Music Label 2012 once released.

Best,
Johan Petersson

September Development Report

As the days get shorter we are working hard to light up your fall a little bit with improved products. Book Label 2012 has RTM’ed and the final release is imminent. The biggest enhancements: e-Pub support and text file (csv) import. You should take the application for a spin to find other enhancements and you will also notice the improved performance.

Minor updates are also being worked on for Movie Label, Music Label and Password Memory. Alongside the minor updates, bigger enhancements are being worked on for future updates :)

So make sure you keep an eye on our homepage over the next few weeks to find big and small updates for all our products.

Best,
Johan Petersson

August Development Report

A number of new updates have been released the last few days. All of them are pretty significant. Earlier this month Movie Label 2012 v7.1 was released, packed with core updates and an updated interface. Today a new 7.1 build was released fixing a bug in the anti-piracy wrapper and another one in the PDF export.

Music Label 2011 v17.2 was also released today with many of the core updates that Movie Label got earlier. And yesterday, Password Memory 4.1 was released with an updated interface, new translations and number of minor new enhancements.

A new Book Label 2012 release candidate was compiled yesterday and will be released shortly. This will be the final release candidate and the final release is will come at the end of the month.

Now I’m off to work on improving our products even further.. Enjoy the last weeks and days of summer!

Best,
Johan Petersson

July Development Report

Busiest summer ever? At least it feels like it. We currently have significant updates for all products close to release.

Movie Label and Music Label will be treated with even more performance optimizations, updated report engines, improved export and much more.

Movie Label and Password Memory will get the Office 2010 style ribbon. Music Label will also receive the latest spec ribbon later this year.

Book Label 2012 is also very close to release. The product is set to reach release candidate status on Monday.

If you are a beta crew member, make sure you head over to the beta forums to take the new beta versions for a spin.

The full list of new features added to the new updates will be announced as they are released, so make sure you keep an eye on our homepage.

Best,
Johan Petersson

June Development Report

Movie Label 2012 – we were extremely excited about releasing it and now that you have had a few weeks to play with it, we get the feeling that you appreciate the work we’ve put into it.

We’re already hard at work with the first feature update that will bring you a number of nice enhancements for free. One thing that the new update will bring is the latest version of the ribbon layout (found in Office 2010). Another thing is improved export and a new export format.

Movie Label 2012 with the new ribbon

Movie Label 2012 with the new ribbon

No release date has been set for Movie Label 2012 v7.1 yet but our aim is to release it in July.

Book Label 2012 v4.0 Beta 1 will be released any day now (as a closed beta to our Beta Crew). The final release should come in late July.

Best,
Johan Petersson

New Pricing and Improved Conditions

Don’t know if you have noticed but on May 27th we revised our product pricing and altered the conditions of the product editions.

Our aim was to make it more beneficial for everyone so we started by moving most of the export functionality to the Professional Edition. This led to improved pricing of the Standard Edition: $39.95 (down from $49.95).

We also wanted to improve the conditions for our Professional Edition customers so we decided that one Professional Edition license is now valid for 3 computers (on one network)! This is now in effect for Movie Label 2012, Music Label 2011 and the next version of Book Label will have the same conditions. Note that these new conditions also apply when upgrading from older versions of the products.

Compare this to our competition! :)

Best,
Johan Petersson

May Development Report

Busy times! New updates for all our products are currently being tested in the beta/rc stage. Music Label and Password Memory are soon to receive minor product updates including both minor enhancements and a number of fixes. Movie Label and Book Label are soon due for major updates (that we are extremely excited about).

I’m keeping it short this month but hope I leave you with the feeling of some nice product updates coming your way. And as usual, make sure you send us your suggestions, questions, bug reports and testimonials. We appreciate all feedback and we always try to respond within a few hours.

Best,
Johan Petersson

Optimizing a Database

When you have used our products for a while and a number of database upgrades have been performed due to new versions, the database file will have allocated extra disk space (in order to perform the changes.)

Optimizing your database once in a while, especially if you have a large database, is a good idea. Optimizing (or reconstructing) the database is a very easy task and doing it every other year is more than enough.

All you need to do is to perform a backup and then, right after, restore the same backup. The database will then be reconstructed from the ground up using the backup. This will optimize the disk space used by the database.

As mentioned, this is by no means necessary and you will probably not notice any speed gains. But at least, now you know how to do it.

Best,
Johan Petersson