Coolect Digital Media Management Software

In the age of digital video, audio and photography it’s easy to accumulate a large collection of media files on your computer, but they can be difficult to organize and handle. As I’ve seen with the Coolect Digital Media Management Software, there’s no reason to have a jumbled mess of media files on your computer anymore.

What is Coolect?
Coolect brings together all of your digital media into a single software application and allows you to search, edit, connect items, and create interactive media albums.

What can Coolect do?
Coolect is all about making connections. You can use it to connect people to photographs, journaling to an event, photographs to a video clip and so much more. Simply import your media into the software, make connections between the appropriate people, events, journaling, audio clips and video clips, and you’ll be able to:

• Assign Meaning - Assign descriptions, titles, and meaning to your media files and connect them to related items.


• Conduct Searches - Search through all of your media with keywords in a simple drag-and-drop search box.


• Play Music - Play a collection of music files by choosing a category of songs from your audio files and pressing play. You can even add a slideshow of photos to go along with it!


• Create Albums – Design an interactive digital album to share, full of pictures, music, sound clips, video clips, and journaling. You can burn them to a CD or e-mail the albums to family and friends.


• Browse by Connections - Surf through your life by using the unique Nexus to follow a web of connections including photos, journaling, video and audio. It’s a completely customized and interactive scrapbook.


• Watch Videos – Watch video clips in Coolect and then see the photos and journaling that go with it.


• Make Slideshows - Play a slideshow of photographs from your search results. For example, search for your daughter, and instantly see a slideshow of all the photos connected to her.

Who should use Coolect?
Coolect is perfect for families with digital video and still cameras, but it’s also a great way to organize media for many additional situations. You can use it to organize all aspects of life. A few examples of people who would love Coolect include:

• Scrapbookers – Organize your layouts (whether digital or scanned) and albums with Coolect. Connect layouts to people, photographs to layouts, layouts to events, and your journaling to the layouts. Then put them together to create a digital version of your physical album and e-mail it to friends and family. It’s a great way to share your work!


• Organization/Family Historians – A historian for any sort of club, sorority, church, school or even your own family would find Coolect very helpful. You can easily collect pictures, audio and video, keep track of events, and have contact information for all of the people involved in the organization—all in one place. Creating end-of-the year or special-event presentations and slideshows is a breeze.


• Travelers – Quickly and easily document your travels with Coolect. Manage your vacation photographs, itineraries, journal entries, dates, names and places.


• Music Lovers – Organize a collection of music files, and play them by artist, by genre, or by your own playlist collections.


• Graphic Artists – Connect images to companies, graphics to projects, and project requirements to assignments.

Even more people who can benefit from using Coolect include crafters, personal computer users, digital videographers, teachers, and professionals. If you have media files to organize and connect, Coolect can do it.

As a person who both scrapbooks and uses digital photography and video, I’ve found Coolect to be a great way to help me keep track of dates and journaling, and to help me find related photographs when I want to create layouts and mini albums.

Is Coolect easy to use?
By using these four simple steps, you can create a personalized web of connected information and media files:

The Coolect video tour and written help guides will walk you step-by-step through how to use the Coolect software, making it easy to understand. If at any time you get confused about how something works, just click on the “Show Me” button and you’ll be brought to a video that shows how to use that section of the software.

I found that after watching the videos, I was able to very quickly try out the software and begin using it.

How can I get Coolect?
If your computer fits the system requirements listed below, you can use Coolect and begin making connections and organizing your media files today.

• Windows XP Home or Professional
• 1.5 Ghz CPU Processor
• 256 Mb Memory
• 300 Mb HardDisk space
• 3D-capable Graphics Card (Preferred)

Coolect offers a free trial version so you can check it out for yourself. The full version of Coolect is only $39.95.

Coolect is a great solution for organizing, managing, and connecting your media files. You can learn more about Coolect by visiting their web site at Coolect.com.