What is new with YuleLog 2011?

 

• Now on DVD
  • With over 9000 photos, the files are now too large to fit on a CD. Your computer must have a DVD drive in order to install YuleLog 2011
  • This allows one DVD to include both the Mac and Windows versions, so no chance of getting the wrong version!
  • Because of this and due to higher postal rates and more shipping damage forcing me to use more expensive packaging, the shipping price is now $3 for updates.
• Secondary Market Prices come from only one source now.
  • I have chosen one of the largest and best known Secondary Market Dealers as the only source of prices for YuleLog.
  • HookedOnOrnaments.com which is owned and operated by Nicki Pierce was my choice. I have worked with Nicki for many years and admire her web site, knowledge, and the data she has available. No offense to the many other dealers out there who I have worked with over the years, but due to the professional relationship that I have with Nicki, this just made the most sense for me.
  • YuleLog originally started with all of this information coming from one source (remember the Collection Connection?) so this is a change back to what I used to do.
  • The primary reason for this change was because of the huge amount of time it took to gather information from multiple web sites and dealers. They all use different formats for their data and it takes a lot of work to get it configured correctly. I had my sons to help with a lot of this, but they are both off at college now and they don’t have time to help me. Also, I was discovering that a lot of the data was not valid. Some of the web sites were not ever updated and the prices would vary considerably site to site. I feel that one large, popular Secondary Market Dealer’s prices are more useful than the widely varying prices I was getting. As I’ve explained to many people, over the years, the prices in YuleLog are mostly useful to determine what you would expect to pay for ornaments (not counting lucky auctions or yard sale finds) if you were to one stop shop for them. You can’t expect to sell for those prices most of the time.
  • The screens and reports in YuleLog 2011 have been reformatted to reflect a single Secondary Market Price, instead of the low, median, and average prices. This is more typical of what you would have seen in the printed Price Guide books that used to be available.
• YuleLog is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”.
  • It will require a significant rewrite of the program to work with this new Macintosh OS.
  • I am not sure when or if I will be able to make this happen. I have less time to spend with YuleLog than I once did, and I’m not sure what the future holds.