Coin collecting software?

If anyone here has a copy of File Maker Pro, I will be more than happy to share empty copies of my coin database.

 

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Midas, I used the info you provided at the Heritage Coins link and its great for me. I will not loose my listing or get it corrupted. Thanks... and it is free!

 

I use Excel, and am thinking about moving to Access in order to scan and post photo's of my coins.

If you have Excel your more than welcome to look over what I use to see if it fits.

 

glaciermi -- I looked at your Excel file. That's a lot of manual input!

 

Ah well.. true, it's a hobby though

 

Here's a screengrab of the coin entry screen for my coin database



It also does list view.

I should point out that the denomination and type fields are both pulldown menus

 

Coin Collecting Software

Contact www.CarlisleDevelopment.com, It is an all inclusive software for any coin and value/buy/sold/ etal.Many applications,...but it costs money!
Nothing worth using , unless you make your own, is free.
I have had it for 3+ years and I upgrade and update every year for my US collection.
Hope this helps.

 

This is blatantly not true. Most good software is, as it happens, to be completely free if someone wants to download it and install it. In fact, I'm fairly certain that this forum is being run on completely free software. Duetch Bank runs nearly half its operations on completely free as in Free Beer software, as well as Free as in Free Speach software.

Are you telling me all this is useless because you can download it for free?

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=aea0zTYvWN0~

 

Believe it or not, mrbrklyn, there are some excellent proprietary software applications available these days. Just because it's free doesn't automatically make it excellent quality

BTW, my desktops run Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows XP, in that order of usage.

 

Actually, I don't believe it. In my expereince not a single paid for and restricted licensed peice of software ever did what I needed it to without problems, going way back to DOS 3.0 and my VIC 20.

 

Well, in my experience, the same could be said for FOSS stuff. Two examples where commercial, proprietary-code products are far better than FOSS alternatives:
-- WYSIWYG HTML editors (which are necessary at times)
-- PIM/contact managers

But we're getting way off topic here...

 

Well

I'm using both right now, although frankly you do not need a WYSIWYG HTML editor. But when you find a multi-funtional hyperthreaded secure application server, with truly flexible window manager pluggin capability like X11 in the proprietory software world, let me know.

Free Software is so much more highly advanced than propreitary systems that the pay for service stuff looks like stone aged technology in comparision. The biggest problem usually facing Free Software applications is how to roll them back to work with the slaveware stuff.


But this is way off topic already. I was just pointing out that claiming that one needs to be paying for software if one wants to get decent stuff is on the face of it absurd. And if you are going to pay for software, your much better off paying for the Free Software.

Ruben

 

...collecting Software

I didn't mean to create a firestorm about the merits, or the lack thereof, as it applys to 'free software'. I only meant that in my experience, I paid for the software and it works very well for me. I suppose I could have used any number of other applications, but my collection is served well by what I bought. I didn't want any interested party to be unprepared if they visited the website I posted and found out the software was not free.
Others can make their own decisions whether to purchase or not.
IMO.
Denny

 

This entire post reminds me of a friend that always bought things from Marshal Fields because if it cost more it must be better. I wasted my time showing him items that were the same brand, size, color, make, model, etc at Marshal Fields and then at Walmart. The prices were astronomically different and his explanation was that at the factories they separate the good stuff and send it to Marshal Fields and the rest goes to places like Walmart. Nuts.
I use Excel for coins and it came with the computer so it just saved me the trouble of finding something else.
I've noticed at coin shows numerous dealers just using a coil ringed binder with lots of scribble notes. I wonder if that was their software.

 

,...collecting software

I agree, you don't always get what you pay for. In addition, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Like someone asked me many years ago, "What is the best wine in the world?" Answer, ... the one you like to drink!!!
...if it works and you like it, it is the best software around.
D

 

Since you ressurected the thread...

...I'll let you know what I decided to go with and how it has gone.

I went with Excel and have not regretted it one bit. It has taken a while to dial in a "master" template page but now I have thouroughly enjoyed entering the data over the past many weeks.

Yes, it has taken a lot of time but next year when I update the values it should go considerably quicker.

And as someone said it has been a labor of love.

Chappy