It took quite some time and lots of documentation going back and forth, but at long last the Collectorz.com brand is R. This means we are now a registered trademark and are allowed to use the R in all our communication: Collectorz.com®.
Cool.

Martin Keur joined us on April 1st. Martin used to work at one of Amsterdam’s biggest music stores Boudisque. Alas, they had to close down after almost 40 years being the best music shop in town, maybe even in The Netherlands. Luckily Martin sent his resume to us.

With his in depth music knowledge he will bring our database to a higher level. Visit our forum and discuss music and our database with Martin. His forum name is MetalMartin, which explains his taste in music. He is a huge collector himself, owning at least 6.000 CDs. At his home he has a special room filled with CDs and DVDs. His movie knowledge will also come in handy when he works on our online movie database.
We’re very happy with Martin joining our team.

The Collectorz.com website has a new look!
In this redesign, we aimed for a clean look and a clear navigation structure. The new site is easier on the eye and focuses more on what's important: telling you everything there is to know about our software. To achieve this, we removed the quite colorful menu on the left, replacing it with a simple horizontal menu at the top. This created more room for feature descriptions and lots of large screenshots.

Press release

DIGISTORE COLLABORATES WITH COLLECTORZ.COM TO PROVIDE ULTIMATE DVD AND CD CATALOGING

Wilmington, Del.- Digistore Solutions, an internationally known supplier of optical digital asset management products and solutions, announced today that Collectorz.com’s Music Collector and Movie Collector software now provide fully integrated support for Digistore’s Centurion CD disc storage system.

When used in conjunction with the Collectorz.com software, customers can link CD and/or DVD discs in their databases to slots within the Centurion CD, use the program’s browse and search features to find the disc they are searching for, and automatically rotate and eject desired discs. The software can even keep track of the exact location of movies and music when multiple Centurion CD devices are linked together.

“Collectorz.com has developed a quick and easy solution to catalog music and movies, which is extremely helpful to users trying to locate a particular disc within a carousel storage system like the Centurion CD,” said Victor Foo, Chief Executive Officer of Digistore Solutions. “By ensuring compatibility of the Collectorz.com software with the Centurion CD, we are providing customers the peace of mind of knowing that the fully integrated support will allow them to use both products together without complexity, unnecessary incompatibilities, system glitches or other costly and time-consuming problems.”

Collectorz.com
Collectorz.com Music Collector 8.1 and Movie Collector 5.4 are the latest versions of the company’s innovative line of cataloging software that allow customers to catalog their entire media collections. Catalog your CD and DVD collection automatically and download information like artist, title, release year, genre and cover images. Browse, search, print or export your collection to a website or iPod and take a list with you to the store to prevent duplicate purchases.

“We have been developing our cataloging software since 2000,” said Alwin Hoogerdijk, CEO Collectorz.com. "The Centurion CD support is a great addition to Music and Movie Collector. This hardware solution is a perfect fit for the target audience of our cataloging software: home users who are serious about organizing their CD and DVD collection."

The Collectorz.com series also offers cataloging software for books, comics, video games, digital photos and MP3 files. Licensed review copies of Movie and/or Music Collector are available on request. Contact Sytske Hermans at syts at collectorz dot com.

Centurion CD
Digistore Solutions Centurion CD is the industry’s first affordable, intelligent disc storage system, providing users with a 100-disc capacity per unit. By stacking multiple units, users can manage as many as 127,000 discs from a single-user interface, enabling the safest and most convenient method of data storage and retrieval. Centurion CD offers quick and simple loading of optical media with easy access to large inventories of data and multimedia information. Proprietary software offers a list of all currently stored discs while an built in keyword search capability provides access to information with only partial file names needed. Internet connectivity can be used to catalog files. Password protection restricts rights of use to only those people who are supposed to have access to information.

About Digistore Solutions
Digistore Solutions (S) Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore with its US headquarters in Wilmington, DE, delivers worldwide enterprise-class storage solutions and services that keep business-critical information and applications accessible. The company delivers the advantages of business continuity through automation with information protection, application availability and storage management solutions. Digistore Solutions is an emerging market leader in data storage and is already providing solutions to a wide range of business and market segments. Services range from the commencement of a customer’s planning process through to successful implementation. US operations focus on both direct sales and aggressive channel availability.

Our lunch table is really getting crowded: we’ve hired two new colleagues. At the same time we had to say goodbye to our movie database admin Vincent Tempelaar.
Vinnie only worked part time at our office next to his study at the Aviation Academy. Today is his first day at his course at Air Traffic Control in Brussels, Belgium. Obviously, this can’t be combined with his work at our office so our ways parted but not without a huge farewell drink at the local Irish Pub.

To replace Vinnie, we’ve hired Alain Vleesch du Bois. Alain is a 3rd year student at the School of Economics Amsterdam. He is knee-deep into movies, which is a big plus if you’re processing them all day.

Patrick Machielse is our second new colleague, although he is no stranger. He has been working freelance at our office since August 2007, to further develop and maintain our Mac software.
We’re delighted that we could persuade Patrick to come and join our programming team!

In the last couple of days we have released new versions of Music Collector, Movie Collector and Book Collector.

Book Collector 5.2 brings you:
- Improved support for the CueCat barcode scanner
- New "Compact" templates for previewing results in Add Automatically screens
- New "Full Cover" templates, in Blue and Black styles
- New "On Order" value for In Collection Status
- And more...

Check the full list of new version 5 features here. The 5.2 specific new features can be viewed on the What's New page.

Check out the What’s New pages for the new features of Music Collector 8.1 and Movie Collector 5.4.

Next to product specific features both titles bring you:
- Support for Centurion CD carousel devices
- Improved support for the CueCat barcode scanner
- New "Compact Preview" and "Full Cover" templates
- New "On Order" value for In Collection Status
- And more!

For a quick overview of Music Collector 8.1 and Movie Collector 5.4, visit the features pages including screenshots.

Wanted: Content Manager (for movies, music & games)

About us
Software company Bitz & Pixelz develops software for the consumer market worldwide. Its flagship product line is the Collectorz.com® brand.
Collectorz.com® is a range of cataloging tools for managing large personal collections of CDs, DVDs, books, comics and video games. Catalog is made easy and fun because all product information is downloaded through our own online databases for movies, games, music and comics.

Your job
We have a job opening for a Content Manager, someone who can help us maintain and further develop our online databases for CDs, DVDs and video games.
It is your job to process data submissions, sent in by our customers. You’ll also add new releases to our databases for which you’ll search for the correct information. Existing movie, music and game data gets updated if necessary. Next to these responsibilities you’re an active contributor to the Connect websites, the homes of the product databases.

You
The ideal candidate has a strong passion for movies, music (perhaps even classical music) and owns an Xbox, Wii or PS3. You are a fast but exact worker with an eye for details. You are of course an internet expert. The English language has no secrets for you, but at the office we speak Dutch.
You enjoy working in a small team and your input is much appreciated. Only with your help can we upgrade our databases and tools. The Connect blog welcomes your posts about the last movie you’ve seen or the latest CD on your iPod. Amsterdam or direct surroundings is your hometown and you can work for us for at least 32 hours per week.

Our offer
At Bitz & Pixelz you’ll find a small but dedicated team of 8 people. We offer an informal and pleasant work environment with daily collective lunches and the Friday gaming competition on our Wii or Xbox360. Our office in the center of Amsterdam is well located and can be easily reached by public transport, car or bike.

If you recognize yourself in this position, please forward your resume and career motivations to Sytske Hermans at jobz at bitzandpixelz dot com.
Of course you can phone as well if you want more details before you apply. The phone number is 020 772 4411.

The Collectorz.com® software.
The Collectorz.com® Connect pages.

Acquisition as a result of this application is not appreciated nor wanted.

2008 has only just begun and we’re already on full programming speed! We have just released a major upgrade of Comic Collector: version 4.

A short summary of the new features:
- New fields: Crossover, Story-Arc and Imprint, all three automatically downloaded from our online database. New creator role Cover Painter, new "On Order" value for In Collection Status. Add Interior Art images using the new Links tab page.
- Add Automatically screen: Improved layout, plus new Favorites tab for bookmarking your favorite series.
- Improved look: New toolbar icons, new templates for main screen, Add Automatically, printing and exporting, improved layout of Edit Comic screen.
- And much more: Better search features, save filters/columns/sort orders, new Help file, etc..

For an overview of the great new features of Comic Collector 4, check the What's New page including screenshots.

We’re quite proud of our new version 4 and we enjoyed creating it; we hope you like it as much as we do.

The Connect pages are the homes of the Collectorz.com online databases for movies, comics, music and games. These databases are used in the Add Automatically feature in our software products.
We have just published our new redesigned Connect sites for movies, games and comics; Music Collector Connect will follow soon.
Just visit and browse the new Connect pages, lots of new features and info to be found on movies, games and comics.

We have just released a major upgrade for Music Collector for Windows, version 8.

A short summary of the new features in Music Collector 8:
- Improved Search features: New Filter screen allowing brackets, AND/OR/NOT, equal, contains, greater, less, regexp. Save filters and use them at any time.
- Improved field selection screen: Simpler selection of fields for Columns, Sorting or Folders. Save your favorite field combinations and switch between them.
- Database changes: Improved support for classical music, multiple studios, new fields for Composition, Chorus, Subtitle, Tags and Original Release date, etc...
- Plus: Automatic Sort Titles, network support, new templates, improved Add Automatically and Edit screens, improved loan manager and more...

For an overview of the great new features of Music Collector 8, check the What's New page, including screenshots.

We have just released our new Affiliate Program.
Partner up with us and make easy money promoting our software on your website or blog. You’ll receive a 15 % commission on every sale.
You can pick from a variety of banners, buttons and skyscrapers, all with your unique affiliate ID in it. At any time you can monitor your affiliate account and check the statistics on your earnings.

Click here to read more about our program and see the new Collectorz.com banners; we have a set for each software title.
Signing up for the program is easy and free, you can start making money today!

After seven years, co-founder Mark-Jan Harte has decided to leave the company.
Bitz & Pixelz is doing very well, and co-founder Alwin Hoogerdijk will continue to run the company in much the same way. He has a lot of ideas to further develop the Collectorz.com products by enhancing features of the existing software as well as creating the new Connect sites.

Mark-Jan has very much enjoyed developing the products and growing the company to its current level; now the time has arrived for him to pursue a new challenge. This will be software in the field of applied machine learning / artificial intelligence, which has always been an interest of his.
We wish Mark-Jan all the best with his new venture.

Yesterday was the first day at our office for our colleague Sven Spillekom. Sven is our new Web Developer and joined our programming team.

He will develop a new web based interface for our online databases for CDs, DVDs, comics and games. For two reasons: for you to manage your collection online and to start an active online collectors’ community.
Sven has a Bachelor degree in Information Engineering from the Hogeschool Amsterdam. He is completely into internet and PHP programming which started of as a hobby but grew into his job. Of course it’s not always ‘work and no play’, Sven watches lots of TV series and is a music addict, so he knows what collecting is all about.

The great new version 5 features of Movie Collector are now available in Book Collector 5 for Windows too.

A short summary of the new features:
- Full ISBN-13 support
- Improved Loan Management
- Improved Network Support: new read-only mode automatically prevents concurrent editing
- Improved Add Books Automatically screens
- New "Book Collector 5" Details View Template, in 3 different looks
- Improved Edit Book screen layout, including e-Book and Audio Book support
- New print templates for printing Avery labels
- And much more...

Check the full What's New page for a complete overview of all the new features.

Job opening at Bitz & Pixelz: Web Developer

Software Company Bitz & Pixelz (Amsterdam based) develops software for the consumer market worldwide. There are two product lines: B&P Games and Collectorz.com.
Collectorz.com is a range of seven unique cataloging tools for managing large personal collections of CDs, DVDs, books, comics, video games, audio files and digital photos. Adding items to the database is quick and easy, using several online information sources including our own online databases for movies, music, games and comics. All relevant data is downloaded with a minimum of typing needed.

Our development team consists of four software engineers. We have a vacancy for a Web Developer, to develop a new web based interface to our online databases. For two reasons: for our customers to manage their collections online and to start an active online collectors’ community.

Your key responsibilities:
- To design and program the new web based functionality
- To create solutions that take into account performance, security and usability
- To actively contribute to the technical innovation of our products

The requirements:
- Experience with web development (HTML/PHP/MySQL)
- Experience with scalable websites using a SQL back-end system
- Experience and affinity with user interface and user-interaction design
- Experience with Java script and AJAX will be an advantage
- You have a strong analytic capability with an eye for detail
- 2-3 years work experience as a Web Developer

The details:
- This is a position for 32 hours per week or more
- A competitive salary in accordance with your experience
- You live in or close to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or are willing to move here

At Bitz & Pixelz you will find a small but dedicated team of 9 people. We offer an informal and pleasant work environment with short communication lines. Your contribution to our team will make a real difference. Our office in the center of Amsterdam is well located and can be easily reached by public transport, car or bike.

Contact information:
If you are qualified for and interested in this position, please forward your resume and career motivations to Sytske Hermans at syts at bitzandpixelz dot com.

Of course you can phone as well if you want more details before you apply: +3120 772 4411.

Acquisition as a result of this application is not appreciated.

We are happy to announce the release of Movie Collector 5 for Windows.

This major upgrade of Movie Collector has a lot of great new features:
- Support for TV Series and Box Sets, download episode titles from Collectorz.com
- Add links to movie files (DivX, Xvid, WMV) and start them from the details panel
- Windows Media Center support: browse your movie and start linked movie files (PRO only)
- Improved Add Automatically and Edit Movie screens
- Improved look: new toolbar icons and new Details View templates
- And much more...

You can find a full What's New list here (including screenshots).

The Collectorz.com online databases for CDs, DVDs, comics and video games are growing steadily. Our database admins AJ (movies, games), Mark (comics, music) and Syts (music, movies) are daily processing humongous amounts of submissions. To speed up the process we’ve hired a new database admin and he started working today.
Vincent Tempelaar, Vinnie for friends & family, works on the online movie database. He is a 21 year old student and in his 3rd year at the Aviation Academy. He is also studying a short course of Philosophy, to get more insight in people’s actions and thoughts.

Good news: a fourth programmer joined our development team. It took some time to find one but today Ronald Kats started his first day at the office.
Ronald has many years of programming experience and used to work with Alwin and Bernard at a multimedia company some years ago. They go back a long way and we’re very happy with him teaming up with us.

Today we’ve released 2.0 updates for the Mac OS X editions of Music Collector, Book Collector and Movie Collector.
Several new features were added but the most important ones are:
- Integrated support for the Collectorz.com laser barcode scanner.
- Export to iPod Notes (Pro edition only)
- The use of the Collectorz.com online databases for automatically adding CDs and DVDs

In the last couple of months we've been working on the Vista compatibility of our Collectorz.com products. All seven of them have been released from December through January and are now Vista compliant.
Next to the Vista compatibility, new features were added as well and some minor bugs were fixed.

As mentioned in August 2006, we were nominated for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The Fast 50 recognizes the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the Netherlands. The winners are selected on turn-over growth percentage over the last 5 years (2001-2005).
Read more about us and the other companies in the book ‘Technologie Toppers 06|07’, published today. The book is available in Dutch and English.

We have been working with our own online databases for movies, CDs, video games and comics for quite some time now. Each database has its own top 50 of most popular titles as indicated by the number of requests through the Collectorz.com software. These top 50s are refreshed on a weekly basis.
With the start of 2007, we can now see what the most popular movies, CDs, comics and video games were for 2006. Check out the most popular titles of 2006 per category.

Top 3 movies:
1. Batman Begins
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Top 3 CDs:
1. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
2. Beatles: Love
3. Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms

Top 3 comic series:
1. Batman
2. The Uncanny X-Men
3. 52

Top 3 video games
1. Halo 2 (Xbox)
2. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
3. Half-Life 2 (PC)

Today we celebrated 6 years of Bitz & Pixelz. We invited friends, network and families to celebrate our 6th birthday and, at the same time, did the housewarming of our new office.
We can look back on years of product development and a steady growth of products, new people and office size :-). More importantly, we have so many ideas for our existing and for new software products. So it is back to work after the cake and beer! Check out our website regularly to see what the next year will bring.

We have moved our online payments to Bibit, one of the leading providers of secure electronic payment services. The most important reason for us to switch to Bibit is the availability of local payment methods and local currencies.
Before this switch you could only pay in US Dollars and Euros, but we now also support the British pound.
Country specific payment methods for several European countries have been added to our ordering page, for example the British Solo Card, the French Virement bancaire, the German Banküberweisung, the Austrian Paybox and iDeal for The Netherlands.
All country specific payment options are shown on the secure ordering page. Here you choose which one you want to use in ordering our Collectorz.com products.

We have been nominated for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2006.
The Fast 50 recognizes the 50 fastest growing technology companies in The Netherlands. The winners are selected on turn-over growth percentage over the last 5 years (2001-2005). On September 28 the winners will be announced during a gala dinner and award ceremony here in Amsterdam.

Today we have moved all our stuff to a bigger office within this building. We are now with 8 people and our old grounds became too small.
Luckily for us there were bigger offices available in this huge building, a former hospital in the center of Amsterdam, near the Leidseplein. Instead of demolishing it, it is now used as a building for hundreds of (small) companies. We only had to move all our computers 1 floor up so we were up and running in no time. We are very happy with this new place and expect to stay here for a long time.
(note that we are record holders moving: 6 times in 6 years).

With the release of Comic Collector 3.0 we introduced our own Collectorz.com Comic database.
It lets you add new comics to your database by just typing the Series name and selecting the issues you own. The program will then automatically download all comic data (including publisher, date, credits and characters) plus the cover images. You can also use the online database to update existing database entries.
The comic database is built and maintained using data and images submitted by our customers. We employ one full-time database admin to process these submissions.

Music Collector and Movie Collector now support the Ziotek CD/DVD Carousel system. This is a jukebox-like device that can store up to 150 disks. Connect it via USB to your PC, and you can locate and eject the right disk from within Music and Movie Collector. Read more about this cool gadget for storing CDs and DVDs on the Collectorz.com website.

We keep on improving our products and we're proud to announce our new Export to iPod Notes feature.
It lets you export your list to the Notes section of your iPod. Browse your collection on your iPod while in the store and check what you already own, right there on the spot. Take your list with you at all times and avoid duplicate purchases.
The Export to iPod Notes feature is available in the PRO editions of Music Collector, Movie Collector, Book Collector, Game Collector and Comic Collector.

Over the years a lot of customers asked for translated versions of our Collectorz.com software. We wanted to offer more languages besides English, but we knew this would be a major project which required a lot of structural changes to the software. But at long last we started the multi language project and we are happy to announce the release of several of our products with multi language support.
Check out our information pages for the available languages but next to English and Dutch you'll find German, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.

We have hired two new people: Athan-Jon de Jager and Mark van den Anker.
Mark and AJ are going to help us maintain our new media databases for movies, games and comics. AJ is in charge of the movie and game database, Mark is our dedicated comic admin. With their help, we hope to keep up with the overwhelming amount of submissions.

We are happy to announce that version 2.0 of Game Collector is available now. The main addition in this release is the new Collectorz.com Game database for downloading game data.
The new Collectorz.com info source in Game Collector is our own online game database system. We introduced this database to ensure stability, data quality and coverage.
Check out the most popular games, as indicated by the number of requests from our Game Collector users.

Today we celebrated our 5th anniversary. Of course, we have been working on the Collectorz.com software since 1996 (in our spare time). But the official launch of the company was in November 2000. On 11-11 we had a serious gathering of merry people at the office, enjoying food and drinks.

On November 5 and 6 the annual European Shareware Conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium. We will be attending with four people and hope to meet a lot of colleagues and get new ideas. We value these meetings, that is why we are one of the sponsors.

We are happy to announce that version 4.8 of Movie Collector is available now. The main addition in this release is the new Collectorz.com Movie database for downloading movie data.
The new Collectorz.com info source in Movie Collector is our own online movie database system. We introduced this database to ensure stability, data quality and coverage.The movie database is built and maintained using data and images submitted by our customers. We employ one full-time database admin to process these submissions.
Check out the most popular movies, as indicated by the number of requests from our Movie Collector users.

All our Collectorz.com cataloging tools now have their unique set of toolbar graphics. Each of the seven Collectorz.com catalogers has its own set of tailor made toolbar icons and the new graphic design helps clarify the function of each toolbar button.
The new toolbar is fully user-configurable; add any menu option you want and choose the size of the button.

We are happy to announce new upgrades of our Music, Movie, Book and Game Collector programs, with fully integrated support for the Flic laser barcode scanner
The Flic laser bar code scanner is manufactured by Microvision.

Sytske Hermans joined our company. She has several years of experience in marketing and PR. At Bitz & Pixelz, she is going to be responsible for setting up and maintaining our own media databases. Next to that, she is going to help us with the marketing and PR of the Collectorz.com products.

After 4 years of being a 2 person company, we decided we needed an extra programmer to help us with the development of existing and new products.
Bernard Kroes joined us and started working on a new, seventh, product in the Collectorz.com series: Photo Collector.

This week, we started using a ticketing system (Cerberus) for all support email accounts. Cerberus will help us streamline the handling of support questions, by keeping track of conversations, pending tickets, passing tickets from first-line support (Peter Gadzinski) to the developers, etc...
Nothing will change for our users, you can just send your email to one of the standard support@ email addresses and Cerberus will pick it up. A ticket number (e.g. [muc #FGH-84373-273]) will appear in the Subject line of our replies. When replying to our emails, please leave this ticket number intact, so that Cerberus can keep track of the conversation.

On November 6 and 7, the annual European Shareware Conference will be held in Strasbourg, France. Mark-Jan Harte of Bitz & Pixelz will be presenting the first session of the conference, Alwin Hoogerdijk will be in several panels throughout the conference.

We moved our office to a new location, in the AOC office building at the WG Plein, near the center of Amsterdam. Our new office is twice as big as our previous one, with a large glass wall at one end, making it a very nice place to work.

Collectorz.com has grown into a 6-product series, offering cataloging software for music, movies, MP3 files, books, comics and video games. The products are very successful and revenues have grown considerably. However, so has the amount of time spent on customer support. We have outsourced the first line support to Peter Gadzinski of Crossover Computing, located in Toronto, Canada.

We have just moved all Bitz & Pixelz websites to our own dedicated server at pair.com.
Due to the growing popularity of the Collectorz.com programs, we were nearing the limits of our previous shared server hosting solution. The new dedicated server will offer better performance, reliability and bandwidth.

Next week, from July 14 to July 19, Alwin Hoogerdijk and Mark-Jan Harte of Collectorz.com will be attending the Shareware Industry Conference, in Rochester, NY, USA.
The SIC is always a great opportunity to meet other independent software developers and to learn about the latest news in the shareware business. We are looking forward to it.
Of course, we will be online the entire period, so the processing of orders and the handling of support issues will continue as normal :-)

On 8 and 9 December the 3rd European Shareware Conference will take place in Cologne, Germany. Bitz & Pixelz is one of the sponsors of the event.

Of course we will be there too. Both Mark-Jan Harte and Alwin Hoogerdijk of Bitz & Pixelz will be speaking at the conference.
For more info, go here: euroconference.org

On Collectorz.com we finally dropped the old Discus forum and moved to a new cool phpBB2 based forum.
More info about the new forum and about accessing the old forum can be found in our posting in the new Announcements section

This week the Shareware Industry Conference 2003 will take place in Rochester NY, USA. Bitz & Pixelz is one of the sponsors of SIC 2003. Alwin Hoogerdijk of Bitz & Pixelz will also be present at the event.

The SIAF awards are the Oscars of the shareware industry, and we're happy that our program Collectorz.com Movie Collector has been nominated in the "Best Hobby or Personal Interest" category.
Look here for a list of all nominees

Bitz & Pixelz is planning to expand its product catalog. We will be creating new products ourselves, but we are also interested in buying programs from other developers.
So if you have created a cool program and are willing to sell the rights (including source code) for a good price, contact us.

On 8 and 9 November the 2nd European Shareware Conference will take place in Cologne, Germany. Collectorz.com is one of the sponsors of the event.

Of course we will be there too. Mark-Jan Harte of Collectorz.com will even be one of the speakers at the conference.
For more info, go here: euroconference.org

A completely redesigned version of the Canasta website is now live. This new website has been designed by Johan van der Wouden of Studio Joyo.

From 16 - 22 July we attended the Shareware Industry Conference in St. Louis, USA. We had a lot of ideas while being there, so watch out for new features in the Collectorz.com products in the near future!

Yes, we moved our office again, we now have an office on the 3rd floor of a nice building near the Vondelpark.

The May 13 edition of the UK Sunday Times recommends Music Collector:
Q: Is there any software that can keep track of my music CD collection?
A: I would recommend Music Collector, which costs £17 from www.collectorz.com (free trial available). Install it and then insert your discs one at a time into your CD drive. The software scans each disc in a matter of seconds, and then automatically downloads and catalogues the content information about it via the internet - hey presto, no typing needed. It also has a host of features that make it ideal for those with large music collections.

We moved our office again, staying in Amsterdam, but now in another office building at the other side of the city: the Amsterdam Science Park.

After continuing problems at Interland, we decided to move all our websites to pair.com. The bitzandpixelz.com domain is the first to be moved to the new pair.com server. Performance seems to be a LOT better than at Interland, let's hope it stays that way.

After the redesign of the Collectorz.com website we finally came around to the Bitz&Pixelz site. It has been designed by Gaudi Hoedaya. Note our mascot, Robbie the robot!

The Collectorz.com website has been redesigned to make the information more accessible. We have also rewritten most of the content. The new site has been designed by Johan van der Woude of Studio Joyo. Ruud Laan helped us with the programming.

We have moved our office from Hilversum to Amsterdam, to the ABC-building on the Donker Curtiusstraat. This is much closer to home and saves us a lot of time traveling and especially traffic jam.

We have founded our company Bitz & Pixelz and were in need of a 'real' office. After years of working from home we have moved our stuff to a nice office in Hilversum. Our neighbours are Softmachine, an international multi media publishing company.