Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
A mix between an encyclopedia of movies, a video collection manager and a store catalog
Coollector Movie Database is a unique type of program that's useful even for the movie lovers who don't own many videos. Yes, you can manage your video collection, with lots of details. But you can also remember all the movies you've seen, how much you liked them, the movies you wish to see, etc...
Discovering new movies of interest is as simple as going to your favorite actors/directors, inspecting their movies you haven't seen, and using our rating and fame meters to know if those movies are good or bad, popular or obscure.
Coollector Movie Database is much fun to use, because you don't start with some dull empty database. On the contrary, the program includes a huge encyclopedia of movies & series, combined with a database of existing videos.
You download... you have all that ! Now, all that remains for you to do, is to personalize that data, by rating the movies and persons, marking the videos you own, those you loaned, etc... Coollector is a great tool, a piece of software like no other and child-play to use.
Discovering new movies of interest is as simple as going to your favorite actors/directors, inspecting their movies you haven't seen, and using our rating and fame meters to know if those movies are good or bad, popular or obscure.
Coollector Movie Database is much fun to use, because you don't start with some dull empty database. On the contrary, the program includes a huge encyclopedia of movies & series, combined with a database of existing videos.
You download... you have all that ! Now, all that remains for you to do, is to personalize that data, by rating the movies and persons, marking the videos you own, those you loaned, etc... Coollector is a great tool, a piece of software like no other and child-play to use.
Here are some key features of "Coollector":
ENCYCLOPEDIA collection manager:
· Personalized encyclopedia.
· At a glance, you see what you already know, like, dislike, what you own, loaned, etc...
· It's an unprecedented perspective on your cinematographical culture and tastes.
· Helps you visualize who are your favorite directors, actors, etc...
· Easier to locate must-see movies.
COLLECTION MANAGER shopping tool:
· If there's a video you'd like to purchase, it is only one click away.
· When you enter a video in your collection, it can be as simple as ripping all the technical details from the corresponding video in store.
· During catalog updates, you get special notice when a video release involves a person that you had put under "video surveillance".
SHOPPING TOOL collection manager:
· It becomes impossible to inadvertantly buy a DVD you already own, or from a director that you don't like.
· Some online stores offer a wishlist service. Now, your have 1 wishlist for all the stores.
SHOPPING TOOL encyclopedia:
· Browsing store catalogs within Coollector is much more conveniant than browsing them online.
· It's faster, and you can perform more powerful searches.
· Coollector is organized in a (more natural) movie-centric way: if there are 2 DVD and 1 VHS of a movie, Coollector shows 1 movie available in 3 medias.
· With Coollector, packs of movies are well broken into single movies.
ENCYCLOPEDIA collection manager:
· Personalized encyclopedia.
· At a glance, you see what you already know, like, dislike, what you own, loaned, etc...
· It's an unprecedented perspective on your cinematographical culture and tastes.
· Helps you visualize who are your favorite directors, actors, etc...
· Easier to locate must-see movies.
COLLECTION MANAGER shopping tool:
· If there's a video you'd like to purchase, it is only one click away.
· When you enter a video in your collection, it can be as simple as ripping all the technical details from the corresponding video in store.
· During catalog updates, you get special notice when a video release involves a person that you had put under "video surveillance".
SHOPPING TOOL collection manager:
· It becomes impossible to inadvertantly buy a DVD you already own, or from a director that you don't like.
· Some online stores offer a wishlist service. Now, your have 1 wishlist for all the stores.
SHOPPING TOOL encyclopedia:
· Browsing store catalogs within Coollector is much more conveniant than browsing them online.
· It's faster, and you can perform more powerful searches.
· Coollector is organized in a (more natural) movie-centric way: if there are 2 DVD and 1 VHS of a movie, Coollector shows 1 movie available in 3 medias.
· With Coollector, packs of movies are well broken into single movies.
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Winamp 5 Full 5.623
You shouldn't call yourself a computer user if you haven't tried Winamp until now. Because Winamp is more than a leader, it's the undisputed king of the multimedia player world.
Winamp is basically the easiest way to play any kind of multimedia file and, more importantly, it can do that through a simple and very pleasant interface.
Its fifth generation benefits from the same “Modern” skin support we've seen since version 3.0, along with support for up to 20 color themes for even greater personalization.
The user interface retains the attributes that made Winamp one of the most popular applications all over the world: it has clear and smartly positioned buttons to allow perfect control over the multimedia files listed in the adjacent playlist window.
Installation lets you configure many of Winamp's features, including file associations (a thing which can be changed later as well), but also allows you to choose which components you wish to deploy on your computer.
As you can see, Softpedia has marked Winamp as ad-supported because the installer attempts to change the default search engine for browsers and even tries to copy some additional files which are not required by the application to work.
Winamp is compatible with the majority of multimedia files out there and during our test we had absolutely no problem to play all the files we had on our computers. Plus, it provides access to the huge Shoutcast Radio Stations collection so listening to some good music is just a matter of clicks.
Beside the audio and video player capabilities, Winamp can also burn selected audio files to CDs and can also rip discs in several formats, including AAC, MP3, WMA and WAV. Pretty useful if you have tons of music CDs, isn't it?
Last but not least, Winamp can easily be converted into a real portable media player manager, as it can detect connected gadgets to allow you to transfer music in a matter of seconds. It doesn't support iPod Touch and iPhone though, but it remains however one of the most powerful tools of its kind.
Our testing proved that the free version of Winamp can easily face any challenge, but those who're looking for some more advanced functions can always choose the Pro version.
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