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If you were looking for an excellent movie cataloger, then, as the navigator says, “you have arrived at your destination” :) This is the official page of one of the most popular and oldest (developing since 2003) movie cataloger All My Movies. We recommend that you immediately try the program in action, because over the years we have implemented almost all possible functionality. Here's a button for real movie buffs:

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The main thing you need to know is that All My Movies automatically downloads information about films from Kinopoisk, IMDb, TheMovieDB.org, and about TV series from TheTVDB.com. That is, you can do it on your computer with minimal effort. In addition, the program can upload information (most importantly - photos!) for people - actors, directors, etc.

What you can use All My Movies for

• of course, for cataloging a collection of films (video files, DVDs, Blu-rays, even VHS!) and TV series
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• to create a beautiful movie catalog for the Dune media player and others

Key features of All My Movies

Previously, there was a long list of cataloguer features that few people read. Guys, over 10+ years of development we have implemented so many things that most likely you will definitely have enough :) Just try the program - install it. If you suddenly don’t find something, write to our technical support and we will definitely tell you and show you how to do what you want.

Of course, all sorts of movie groupings, sorting, search, export, import, printing, a bunch of different options for displaying a collection of movies, etc. are available. All this is very customizable, you really will have a personal catalog of films - the way you want it.

The version you download from the site is a trial version. It works exactly the same as the licensed one, but only for 30 days. And you won’t be able to create new collections, but you can do whatever you want with the demo collection. All added films will not disappear anywhere after purchasing a license - don’t be afraid, they are yours!

System requirements

Our cataloging program works on almost any computer with Windows® installed Vista/7/8/10. There are no special requirements.

Working with documents takes a lot of time from users, especially office workers. But there are many programs that can significantly optimize manual labor when working with documents by automating some processes. Many of these solutions are easy to use, very convenient and inexpensive, and therefore available to a wide range of users. Such programs will be discussed in this article.

Document organization

Users who have to deal with a large number of electronic documents are well aware of the situation when, even despite a strict system of catalogs and subdirectories, it takes a lot of time to find the right document. One of the options for solving this problem is to use a special cataloging program, the main task of which is to organize and sort data, which ultimately ensures a quick search for the necessary information. There are a huge variety of such catalogers on the market, and all of them are focused on cataloging either disks, folders and files, or some highly specialized information (movies, coins, stamps, etc.). Any universal cataloger that allows you to catalog folders and files of different types is suitable for cataloging documents. The best among such solutions is the WhereIsIt package (http://www.whereisit-soft.com/), but it is quite expensive, and its capabilities are clearly redundant for many users. For most people, using the WinCatalog Standard package will be sufficient.

Another way is to combine related documents into complex hierarchically structured documents stored inside data files corresponding to these structures. In such structured documents, it is much more convenient to navigate and find the information you need thanks to both structuring and advanced search capabilities within the document. In addition, such structuring allows you to perform external searches and search for documents based on fragments of the text included in them. For example, the Maple package is designed for creating hierarchically structured documents.

WinCatalog Standard

Developer: WinCatalog.com

Distribution size: 1.62 MB

Work under control: Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT 4.0/XP

Distribution method: http://www.wincatalog.com/ru/download/wincatalogs10ru.exe)

Price: 200 rub.

WinCatalog Standard is an easy-to-use multifunctional cataloger with a clear Russian-language interface (Fig. 1). The package allows you to catalog data from any storage media that can be connected to a computer: floppy disks, hard and network drives, regular CDs and audio disks, Zip disks, etc. With its help, you can sort and organize any folders and files, regardless of their location. You can enter data into the catalog either manually (directly into virtual folders) or by scanning disks (including Zip archives located there) - in this case, for ease of orientation, folders and files extracted from disks are better then sorted into virtual folders, which, thanks to the support drag & drop operations will not take much time.

Rice. 1. WinCatalog Standard interface

General catalog management is easy and convenient. Dividing data into thematic folders greatly simplifies orientation, and the placement of folders and their nested elements can be easily changed by simply dragging and dropping. Advanced search (by name, comment, size and modification date; Fig. 2), supporting Boolean operations and the ability to select a specific folder for search, and also taking into account keywords (they can be prudently added to individual directory elements), allows you to quickly find the desired document , and find duplicates - remove duplicate elements from the collection. Exporting all or part of the documentation catalog to a CVS file makes it possible to process the data in another application (for example, MS Excel), and exporting to an HTML file is convenient for printing the catalog.

Rice. 2. Search documents in WinCatalog Standard

Maple 6.25

Developer: Crystal Office Systems

Distribution size: Maple - 5.3 MB, Maple Professional - 5.89 MB

Work under control: Windows (all versions)

Distribution method: shareware (30-day demo version: Maple - http://www.crystaloffice.com/maple.exe, Maple Professional - http://www.crystaloffice.com/maplepro.exe)

Price: Maple - $21.95, Maple Professional - $30.95

Maple is an easy-to-use document manager that allows you to combine diverse materials into hierarchical structures and ultimately obtain structured documents: business plans, reports, analytical notes, brochures, etc. In such hierarchical document trees, diverse information is presented more clearly, and finding any document is much easier than with standard cataloging. To view documents created in Maple, you need a special viewer, Maple Reader, which can be downloaded for free at: http://www.crystaloffice.com/mreader.exe (2.51 MB). The package has a user-friendly interface (Fig. 3) and is so easy to learn that even the lack of Russian localization of the program will not be an obstacle for most users, and therefore this solution can be recommended to the widest audience.

Rice. 3. Maple program interface

The manager is available in two versions: basic Maple and extended Maple Professional. Among the fundamental differences of the extended version is the presence of such additional functions as document search, grammar checking, file encryption and backup of hierarchical structures.

The basis of any document in Maple is a hierarchical tree of nodes, the level of nesting of subnodes in which, as well as their number, is unlimited. Each node is a separate document containing not only text (typed directly, pasted from the clipboard or imported from documents in RTF, DOC, WRI and HTML formats), but also tabular material, graphs, links to basic fragments of the final document or files, and etc. When preparing documents, it is possible to use a standard set of functions for working with text: changing the font type and size, creating lists, formatting paragraphs, using styles, etc. Integration with MS Word allows you to use the spell checker built into MS Word to check grammar and search for synonyms not only on English, but also in Russian. The built-in backup system provides the ability to create compressed backup copies of hierarchical documents (in ZIP and CAB formats). The built-in encryption wizard helps you encrypt sensitive documents using the Blowfish cryptographic algorithm. And the Finder search module allows you to quickly find the necessary documents by name fragment, author, comments, content (Fig. 4), etc.

Rice. 4. Search documents by content
in them the text in Maple

Quick access to documents

The technology of computer preparation of documents assumes that the created documents are subsequently used repeatedly. For example, when developing a new document, you may need one or two paragraphs from yesterday’s document, or the new document is generally a copy of the old one, but with changed variable information, etc.

Unfortunately, the user cannot always remember the name of an important document created the day before yesterday, and sometimes does not have the slightest idea of ​​where to look for it. Of course, you need to give documents meaningful names and save them, adhering to clear cataloging, but, alas, it happens otherwise, due to haste, distracting calls, etc. As a result, searching for the required document can take a lot of precious time - after all, it is not at all a fact that you will be able to open it through the Windows list of links to the latest documents accessible through the Start menu. The fact is that this list:

• limited to 15 documents - this means that the probability of including documents, for example, a week ago is practically zero;
• does not allow you to locate a document if you remember part of the text, but forgot the file name;
• does not include documents of the same name (but at the same time different) saved under the same name, but in different folders, which is important, for example, when working together on a document with the formation of several of its versions.

There is another problem - the list of recent documents provided in Windows is one of the channels for leaking confidential data, since any user (including an attacker) can use it to find out about the nature of the owner’s computer activity. Therefore, it is recommended to clean this list regularly, for example, using utilities for removing “junk” data from the disk. As a result, a seemingly paradoxical situation arises: if a user regularly destroys information about recently used documents for security purposes, then he is deprived of quick access to them, and otherwise he risks becoming a victim of attackers. However, there is a way out - you can use the specialized utility ActualDoc, which expands the capabilities of Windows in terms of working with the latest documents.

If the required document was created a long time ago and therefore cannot appear in the list of recently opened documents (both built into Windows and in the ActualDoc list), then you will have to resort to searching for it. Another problem arises here - as a rule, the user does not remember the name of the document (as well as the date of its creation), but he knows which keywords appear in the text. This means that you need to search for a document by fragments of the text included in it - alas, although this task can be solved using the built-in tools of Windows or, for example, Word, it is very mediocre. And the point is not only that such a search is not entirely obvious and is performed slowly - sometimes you can live with this. What is more important is that not all files will be found - the morphological features of the Russian language will not be taken into account during the search, so files in which the searched words have a different case ending will remain unfound. At the same time, specialized search utilities such as “Snoop” (http://www.isleuthhound.com/ru/), Superior Search (http://superiorsearch.ru/), “Archivarius 3000” and Phoenix Search (http ://indexlab.net/), can quickly find the necessary documents regardless of their location. The most attractive among the mentioned solutions in terms of price/quality ratio seems to us to be the Archivarius 3000 package.

ActualDoc 3.5

Developer: Flexigen Software

Distribution size: Standard - 4.1 MB, Professional - 3.6 MB

Work under control: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Distribution method: Standard - freeware (http://www.flexigensoft.com/files/download/actualdoc-standard.exe), Professional - shareware (14-day demo version - http://www.flexigensoft.com/files/download/ actualdoc.exe)

Price: Standard - free, Professional - $19.95

ActualDoc is a recent document manager that remembers used documents and provides quick and secure access to them. The program is simple and intuitive, has a user-friendly interface with support for the Russian language (Fig. 5) and requires virtually no time to master, especially since it is accompanied by a comprehensive help system, and therefore can become an indispensable tool for both professionals and home users.

Rice. 5. ActualDoc program interface

ActualDoc keeps track of the download of an unlimited number of documents within a user-specified period (60 days by default), supports more than 40 file formats (text and graphic files, MS Office documents and HTML documents, PDF files, etc.) and allows you to quickly download any of them. Finding the required document in the program environment is not a problem. If the scroll of documents she has memorized is relatively small, then you can select the document directly from the list. Otherwise, it would be wiser to first limit the list of possible candidates by filtering it (filtering by time is possible). O interval, by extension and category) or search by document name (in general) or by a fragment of the text included in it (however, searching in Russian text is not always successful). There is another way to quickly open the desired document - through built-in bookmarks (the same as in Internet Explorer; Fig. 6), which can be assigned to individual frequently used documents and significantly speed up access to them, since there is no need to search. The selected document is available in the built-in viewer - for viewing, searching and copying, as well as in an external application - for editing and can be used for complete processing, selective copying of information from it, or for sending the document by e-mail. At the same time, the list of documents itself can be hidden from prying eyes and protected by a password - in this case, recently used files will not be displayed in the menu Start -> Documents.

Rice. 6. Opening a document via a bookmark
in ActualDoc

The package comes in two versions: the free basic Standard and the paid Professional. The free version does not allow you to view documents in built-in viewers, use the search function (as a result, you can only search for documents visually, viewing the full or filtered list), create custom categories and edit bookmarks.

Archivist 3000 (3.82)

Developer: Likasoft

Distribution size: 3 MB

Work under control: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Distribution method: shareware (30-day demo version - http://www.likasoft.com/download/arch3000-ru.exe)

Price: student license - 195 rubles, personal license - 295 rubles, commercial license - 900 rubles.

« Archivist 3000 is the optimal solution for quickly searching documents in 18 different languages ​​(including Russian, English, German and French), aimed at a wide range of users. The program provides instant access to documents located on your hard drive, network and removable drives (CD, DVD, ZIP, etc.), and can work with all popular types of documents (PDF files, MS Office documents, text files, etc. .). It can search in archives (ZIP, RAR, etc.), in email messages (Outlook, Outlook Express, The Bat!, etc.) and files attached to them. In addition, searching in the Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino databases and in the ICQ, Odigo IM and Miranda IM message databases is supported.

Along with regular search by keyword or set of keywords, the program supports an advanced search mode using logical functions and can search for documents not only by content, but also by file name, modification date, size, document type, encoding, etc. ( Fig. 7). Thanks to full Unicode support, searches are performed correctly not only in documents in one language, but also in multilingual ones (for example, with text in Russian and German simultaneously). It is possible to remotely search for documents via the Internet with subsequent access to the found documents through any Internet browser, for example, Internet Explorer. Search results can be presented in excerpt mode, when the most significant (relevant) fragments of selected documents are displayed with highlighting of the found words, and in table mode, when brief information about the documents is displayed (Fig. 8), by which they can be sorted.

Rice. 7. Search for documents in the Archivist 3000 environment

Rice. 8. Options for presenting search results
in "Archivarius 3000"

Filling out standard documents

Preparation of standard documents takes up a significant part of the time of those users who, as part of their duties, are involved in the preparation of various documentation in insurance companies, banks, notary offices, companies providing various types of services, etc. As a rule, such documents are created in the Word text editor based on initially developed basic documents, in which some variable information is simply replaced. There is nothing complicated about this, but with large volumes of documentation, errors are inevitable - you can, for example, accidentally enter data in the wrong place where it is supposed to be, or erase several words of the document, etc. Therefore, it is desirable that only those fields in which data must be entered are open for input, and all other text is blocked. The developers have provided the ability to create such documents in Word. It is enough to develop a series of templates for all standard documents used in the organization, for each template to prohibit changing permanent data (command Tools -> Set protection -> Prohibit any changes except entering data into form fields) and train users to create documents using templates. For standard documents, where there is relatively little variable information, such templates will be quite sufficient to significantly speed up the process of document preparation and reduce the risk of errors.

However, in practice, many standard documents are used in which variable information takes up up to half the volume, and some of the variable data is repeated several times in one form or another (Fig. 9) - for example, full name. in different cases, words for entered dates or amounts, etc. In this case, using Word templates does not help much, since filling out documents even using templates will take a lot of time, because all variable data will have to be entered manually.

Rice. 9. Example of a document with a large volume
variable information

There is one more feature of the preparation of standard documents - often it is necessary to prepare not one document, but several at once (for example, to draw up a bank agreement on opening a depositary, three or four types of agreements are needed for signature). Thus, the same information has to be entered into different documents, which also takes a lot of time, and the likelihood of making an error increases accordingly. You can prepare such documents much faster using specialized applications designed to automate the process of preparing standard documents, such as AutoDoc or Blitz Document. These applications are also based on the use of templates, which, unlike ordinary Word templates, not only allow you to enter data into the fields provided for this (for which the user needs to fill out a set of forms with data), but are also able to transform the entered data in a programmed way, for example can replace numbers in words, declension of words and phrases according to grammatical cases, etc. As a result, the necessary documents are filled out quickly, and the number of errors that can be made is an order of magnitude less than when preparing them traditionally in Word. In addition, creating standard documents through specialized solutions is also attractive because all created documents are automatically cataloged and finding any of them in the future is not a problem, and the user is not required to know the intricacies of document preparation, because all legal nuances are already taken into account in the templates.

AutoDoc 1.2

Developer: EleWise

Distribution size: 6 MB

Work under control: Windows 2000/XP/2003

Distribution method: shareware (functionally limited demo version - http://www.auto-doc.ru/download/autodoc/AutoDoc_Demo.exe)

Price:"AvtoDoc-Personal" - 1980 rubles, "AvtoDoc-Server" - 2980 rubles, "AvtoDoc-Client" - 1490 rubles.

"AutoDoc" is a program that allows you to automate and speed up the process of filling out standard documents using templates created using MS Word and maintaining an archive of documents and records made using these templates. The process of generating new documents in it is extremely automated - just select the desired business scenario from the general list of scenarios (a business scenario means a customized template) and fill out the input form with the required data (Fig. 10). The created document can be viewed, saved, printed, or opened in Word for further editing.

Rice. 10. Creating a document using the “AutoDoc” script

The number of built-in scripts is small (Fig. 11), but can be expanded with custom scripts, the creation process of which is presented in detail and clearly in the help and is fully controlled by the wizard, and therefore is accessible to most users. Developing a new script involves performing five steps: entering the name of the script, creating a template, defining variables, setting up and testing the script and saving it for further editing (Fig. 12). At first glance, preparing a template may cause some difficulties, since it must be created manually in Word, and this requires knowledge of a scripting language. But in practice, everything is much simpler - it is enough to understand that variables are entered in curly brackets, and the $ sign is placed in front of them; all other text is printed in the usual way (Fig. 13). New templates can be created not only from scratch, but also based on existing templates or ready-made documents - in the first case, you just need to change the script settings and test it with the changed settings, and in the second, open a ready-made document, replace changing information with variables and specify it program as a template. Variables can be of several types, including those that allow:

• enter data into several fields at once: full name, passport data, organization details, etc.;
• select a variable value from a set of values;
• perform various operations and transformations: calculate the percentage of a number or VAT of an amount, convert a number into a string, enter the current date, etc.;
• indicate a word or phrase in a certain case, etc.

Documents created according to AutoDoc business scenarios are saved in the form of clearly structured records, and therefore at any time you can find the desired document by filtering or searching, view it, print it, regenerate or delete it.

Rice. 11. “AutoDoc” window with a list of built-in groups
business scenarios

Rice. 12. Development of a new script in AutoDoc

Rice. 13. Example of template text in “AutoDoc”,
in which four variables appear: “number”,
“month”, “organization” and “full name”

The program is supplied in two versions: single-user - "AvtoDoc-Personal" and multi-user (network), represented by two modules - "AvtoDoc-Server" and "AvtoDoc-Client". In the single-user version, all components of the system are located on the local computer, and in the multi-user version, the database of scripts, templates and records is installed on the server, and on user computers only the client part is installed, which allows the use of all AutoDoc materials stored on the server.

Blitz Document 3.4.1

Developer: BlitzSoft

Distribution size: 991 KB

Work under control: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Distribution method: shareware (functionally limited demo version - http://blitz-doc.ru/insblitz.exe)

Price: 500 rub.

Blitz Document is a compact program for automatically creating standard documents using script templates. It allows you to quickly generate documents based on built-in templates, the number of which is more than 30 (Fig. 14), or custom scripts that can be developed based on built-in templates or empty layouts. Creating a document using a ready-made script is extremely simple - just select the type of script and follow the instructions of the wizard, who will conscientiously guide the user through all stages of document preparation (Fig. 15). The finished document can be viewed, printed, edited in the built-in text editor (both variable and constant data can be corrected) or opened for editing in Word.

Rice. 14. List of built-in Blitz Document scripts

Rice. 15. Creating a scripted document
Blitz Document

The development of created templates is somewhat more complicated, but will also be within the capabilities of most users. True, mastering this feature will take some time, since, unfortunately, the reference information included with the program is designed for sufficiently trained users (it is very sparse and does not contain any illustrations or examples). Technically, creating a new template consists of two stages: selecting a built-in template or layout on the basis of which a new template will be developed, and sequential adjustment of the constant and variable data included in it (Fig. 16). Constant data is entered in its real form, but not directly into the text, but through dialog boxes. Variable information is also adjusted during the dialogue and is no longer entered directly, but is replaced by variables with wildcard labels, designed taking into account the scripting language used in the program. Scripts can not only display the text entered during document generation, but also change it using a system of data substitution or transformation commands. For example, it is provided:

Rice. 16. Development of a new template based on the layout
in Blitz Document

• Declension of words and phrases according to grammatical cases;
• converting numbers to strings;
• converting calendar dates into strings;
• carrying out any calculations used in legal and business documents;
• changing the text depending on the value of the entered data, etc.

Documents created using Blitz Document are saved in structured accounting journals - this allows you to quickly navigate through the documentation and almost instantly gain access to the necessary materials, for example, in order to print them. In addition, documents can be grouped into virtual files, which is convenient for quick access to materials related to a specific subject or object appearing in the database.

OCR text in scanned documents

Users who often have to convert paper documents (pages of a book, newspaper, magazine or fax) into an electronic editable format cannot do without a character recognition system, or OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system, designed to automatically enter text from paper documents into a computer. Theoretically, you can use the FineReader program from ABBYY or CuneiForm from Cognitive Technologies - both are reliable in operation and have high recognition accuracy. But the FineReader package has a simplified and affordable version for home users, ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Home Edition, which makes it more attractive to a wider audience.

ABBYY FineReader 8.0

Developer: ABBYY Software

Distribution size: 40.5 MB

Work under control: Windows 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP

Distribution method: shareware (there is no demo version of FineReader Home Edition, a functionally limited demo version of FineReader Professional Edition - http://www.abbyy.ru/download/?param=45793)

Price: FineReader Home Edition - 990 RUR, FineReader Professional Edition - 3750 RUR.

ABBYY FineReader is an ideal solution for recognizing documents in which not only the text, but also the design is recognized, which ensures accurate transmission of tables, pictures and text division into columns (Fig. 17). The program is easy to use, can recognize multilingual (179 languages ​​are supported) and multi-page documents. It is possible to recognize the entire document or its individual pages. The result can be saved in one of the common formats: RTF, DOC, XLS, HTML, TXT or PDF. It is possible to save recognition results step by step to eliminate errors. Export of recognition results directly to Microsoft Word, Excel, Lotus Word Pro, Corel WordPerect and Adobe Acrobat has been implemented. The built-in spell checker (for 36 languages) will help speed up checking the result, and integration with Microsoft Word allows you to call the program directly from Word, without being distracted from working with the text.

Rice. 17. Result of document recognition
in ABBYY FineReader Home Edition

The program is presented in two versions: FineReader Home Edition, designed for beginners, and FineReader Professional Edition, aimed at professionals. The professional version allows you to manage recognition parameters (change the mode, perform recognition with training) and has a richer set of recognition functions (recognition of PDF files, texts captured with a digital camera, etc.). In addition, the Professional Edition provides more different saving formats, added the ability to recognize barcodes and quickly recognize screenshots using the Screenshot Reader utility.

Converting documents from PDF format

All technical documentation is supplied today in PDF format, in which the free Adobe Acrobat Reader utility is used to view documents. But quite often there is a need to use fragments of PDF files when preparing your own documents or editing materials in PDF format (for example, an article, contract, report, etc.). In the first case, you will need to extract fragments of text and/or images from PDF files (theoretically, this can be done using the built-in tools of Acrobat Reader, but with very mediocre results). In the second case, you will have to convert PDF documents into an editable format (for example, into Word format) while maintaining the design of the original document, which is not even provided for in Acrobat Reader. In such cases, special utilities will come to the rescue, of which the most attractive packages are ABBYY PDF Transformer and PDF2Word (http://www.toppdf.com/pdf2word/index.html). We will look at the first of them - although it is more expensive, it has a Russian-language interface and allows you to convert PDF files into several editable formats, and can correctly recognize not only English, but also Russian text.

ABBYY PDF Transformer 2.0

Developer: ABBYY Software

Distribution size: 52 MB

Work under control: Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher)/XP/Server 2003

Distribution method: shareware (15-day demo version - http://www.abbyy.ru/pdftransformer/?param=35957)

Price: 1490 rub.

ABBYY PDF Transformer is a utility for converting PDF documents into Microsoft Word document formats (Fig. 18), Excel, as well as HTML and TXT files. The package has an intuitive interface and is very easy to use, so even novice users will be able to master it.

ABBYY PDF Transformer can convert any PDF files, including files without a text layer (such files are most often obtained from scanned documents and represent an image of text), and correctly processes PDF files containing any combination of supported languages ​​(including Russian and English). The utility accurately preserves the design of the source document (pictures, tables, column layout, links) and allows you to manage conversion and saving options. For example, you can clearly define areas that should be perceived by the program as text or as an image (which is important for PDF files with complex design), save the finished document with the same design as in the original, or as a column of text (with or without pictures - optional) etc. If necessary, it is possible to selectively convert individual pages or even their fragments. In addition, ABBYY PDF Transformer can also perform reverse conversion, allowing you to create PDF files from Microsoft Word documents, Excel tables, PowerPoint presentations, Visio diagrams and HTML files, as well as from almost any application that supports printing a document (this is implemented via virtual printer PDF-XChange for ABBYY PDF Transformer 2.0).

Why do you need high-speed and unlimited traffic Internet? If you answer without hesitation: “to download movies,” then this review is written just for you. Fortunately, the speed of an Internet connection, at which a film is on your hard drive in just a few minutes, has long ceased to be a rarity, thanks to which you can always quickly find a fresh movie for tonight if nothing worthwhile is shown on TV. What to do with the film after it has been watched? There are probably three options: delete it, leave it lying around on your hard drive, or burn it to a CD/DVD. If you most often resort to the second or third options, then you will probably very soon encounter a problem that sooner or later overtakes any collector: how not to get confused in all this wealth? How can you remember whether you have a particular film in your collection, and if so, where to find it? Film cataloging programs will help answer all these questions. Since the choice of such software is quite large, in this review we limited ourselves to only a few utilities, selected by us according to two criteria: the presence of a Russian interface and free status.

Movienizer 1.9

Developer: Movienizer
Distribution size: 6 MB
Spreading: free Despite the fact that Movienizer is one of the youngest movie catalogers, it has already gained considerable popularity. However, this is not surprising - the program is quite functional, but at the same time absolutely free, which is rare for programs of this kind. Another important advantage is support for several interface languages, including Russian. Almost every cataloger uses its own format for storing data. Because of this, users often find themselves hostage to one program or another. Once they start keeping track of collections in one of them, they are simply unable to try another solution, since entering information again is quite tedious. The creators of Movienizer offered an excellent solution - automatic conversion of databases of other programs into the format of this cataloger. When you first launch Movienizer, it searches for files with databases and, having found them, offers to convert its format. Popular applications such as All My Movies, Ant Movie Catalog, EMDB and others are supported. Support for some programs is provided in the form of add-ons, so if the utility you used previously was not found, it makes sense to look at the Movienizer website and look for the appropriate plugin.

Movienizer's interface strongly resembles a browser, and working with the database is most similar to navigating a website. Using the toolbar, you can quickly open the program's home page, return to the pages of previously viewed movies, open a search window, play a movie with an external or built-in player, etc.

On the initial page of the program you can see the total number of films and personalities in the database, quickly go to the last added or last changed films, and perform a search. The working area of ​​the program contains text information regarding films, graphics (frames, covers, etc.), as well as links. It is the latter that constantly makes you think that you are working on the Internet, and not with an offline database. Links are created automatically when you add various information about films. For example, when you enter information about the year a movie was released, the numbers are automatically converted into a link. Click on it and you will be taken to a page where all the films released this year are collected. The same applies to all the personalities who took part in the creation of the film - actors, directors, screenwriters, etc. Genres are also presented in the form of links. The collection is shown as an alphabetical list on a special narrow panel on the left side of the program window. At the user's request, you can view all films or only those whose names begin with the selected letter of the alphabet. The collection can also be presented in the form of a tree structure. Each movie page has several convenient buttons that help you manage your collection. With their help, you can indicate that this film is currently in a collection or given to a friend, that it is wanted, that it has already been watched, and also that you are ready to sell it.

Adding movies is implemented quite conveniently. You can add them by name, by barcode, and also indicate to the program the path to the file on the disk or by inserting a DVD into the drive. Since Movienizer works with several large Russian-language online movie databases, one of the most convenient ways to add movies is by title. It is enough to enter one or more words that appear in the title, and the program will try to obtain all the information about the feed from the Internet. The search takes a few minutes, after which you can see the found films that fully or partially match the request.

Once you select one of them, you will have to wait a little longer while the data is downloaded. If necessary, you can configure some data loading parameters, for example, the maximum number of images, the maximum number of characters in the description, etc.

EMDB 0.80

Developer: Wicked & Wild
Distribution size: 890 kb
Spreading: free EMDB (an abbreviation for Eric's Movie Database) is another free cataloger that can claim to be the user's choice. In addition to its free status, the program has another important advantage - it is constantly updated and improved. EMDB has a Russian interface, however The translation is not always correct and incomplete, so even if you select Russian, you can find English names of options.

EMDB will be of interest, first of all, to those who collect foreign films. The fact is that the program works with one and only online database - IMDB.com. This is a database in which descriptions of all films (even domestic ones) are presented in English, so information in Russian has to be added to film cards manually. EMDB has a lot of fields for entering information. You can specify the media on which the film is recorded, the languages ​​in which it has subtitles, the presence of menus and bonuses on the DVD. If your collection is dominated by rips, then you can specify the path to the file on the disk, as well as the source from which the conversion was made - DVD, Blu-ray, video cassette, etc. For each film, there are fields with which you can indicate that the film has been watched, is in the collection, or that you just want to purchase it. In the main window of the program, by default, a list of all films in the collection is displayed, but if you wish, you can, for example, display only those that have not yet been viewed, or those that you are going to buy. In general, flexible interface customization is one of the strengths of EMDB. The display of information in the main window can be customized at your own discretion by choosing both the color scheme and what information will be displayed. The program has a rental manager, so you can use it to keep track of discs that you have loaned to friends. EMDB remembers when discs were borrowed and returned, and keeps a rental history. Finally, it is worth noting such an important feature as data backup. You will need it, first of all, if you want to transfer the movie database to another computer or reinstall the system. Backups can be performed manually, as well as automatically - weekly or monthly.

ArchiVid 2.4.09

Developer: Kuribko Konstantin
Distribution size: 1.4 MB
Spreading: free ArchiVid is another rapidly developing cataloguer that remains free. The developer offers two download options - an EXE installer or an archive with all the files necessary for the program to work. If you choose the second option, then ArchiVid is very convenient to use on a USB drive, since in this case installation is not required. One of the interesting features of the program is the automatic addition of technical information about the file to the movie card. This opportunity will be convenient, first of all, for those who download movies from the Internet rather than buy DVDs. It is enough to specify the path to the video file, and ArchiVid will analyze it, and then add information about it to the database, including file size, video duration, image resolution, codec used to compress the video, etc. And if you specify the program the folder in which films are stored, the process can be automated as much as possible. In this case, cards for all films detected by the program will be created and filled out automatically.

The program interface is presented in the form of a table that includes several columns: the name of the film, its number in the collection, the presence of a description, the presence of graphics, etc. The display of columns can be controlled by hiding or, conversely, displaying information that interests you. It’s convenient that you can sort by each column. To quickly search for films in the collection, you can use filters and categories. The user can create filters using any information about the film: year of release, genre, presence of a description, codec used to compress the video, etc. As for categories, they are displayed in the main program window in the form of a tree. Categories can be created based on criteria such as watched/unwatched film, favorite film, loaned to a friend, etc. You can create categories manually. The same film can be classified into several categories. Like other catalogers, ArchiVid supports online databases, making it easy to fill out movie cards. Despite the fact that the program works with several large databases, it may happen that the movie you need is not in any of them. In this case, you can use one of the convenient features of the program - a quick search for a movie in the Google search engine by its name.

Conclusion

It is unlikely that a collection can be of any value if even its owner does not know what exactly is in it, and therefore cannot find anything in it. This is why cataloging programs are necessary for everyone who values ​​and treasures their films. It is worth spending time once on compiling a database, and in the future you will always be able to find the answer to the question: “What to watch tonight?”

It will help you organize your music collection and learn more about your favorite artists and albums. With the help of the program you can:

• Catalog music albums in any format: vinyl discs, Audio CD, MP3, FLAC, APE, OGG and others.
• Create an illustrated music catalog with album covers, song lists, reviews.
• Become a music expert.
• Upload discographies, biographies and photos of your favorite artists.

Musicnizer stores information about your music collection that is important to you. This is your personal music encyclopedia. Try it!

Organize your music collection

If you don't know where your favorite audio disc went, just launch Musicnizer. The program has special fields for disk number and location, so you can specify the exact location of your disks. The built-in loan manager will help you keep track of the CDs you give to your friends to listen to. With Musicnizer, you don't have to wonder if you had a certain album, and if so, where it is now. Moreover, you will be able to create lists of albums that you plan to buy or download.

Illustrated music catalog

Music expert

One of the most interesting features of Musicnizer is its ability to find connections between artists and albums. Album reviews, interesting facts, discographies will help you learn more about the world of music and discover previously unfamiliar but noteworthy albums. With Musicnizer you will remember when this or that group was formed, what albums it released, where its members went later, and much more. At some point, you will notice that your friends ask you in surprise: how can you know all this?

Information about the performers

Without musicians, music could hardly exist, but most programs that work with music databases ignore this fact and display artists only as a minor addition to the album information. Musicnizer takes a different approach: artists have their own place in the catalog, and the program tries to provide the most complete information about them. Depending on the download settings you choose, Musicnizer can download the selected artist's full discography, photos, biography and other important facts. Open albums that are not yet in your collection, download information about them to see if they might interest you.

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