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Welcome to the Home page for GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog.
| Software to Manage Your Mineral Collection!
GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog is powerful database software
to manage your collection -- written by a mineral collector for mineral collectors.
GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog is unique software,
custom designed specifically for cataloging the simplest to the most sophisticated of mineral collections.
Upgrade to Version 2.20a Added on December 5, 2009
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GneissWare™
Mineral Catalog
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$99.00
New Demo Version
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You can catalog and manage personal, club, school or museum collections.
GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog provides the tools needed to manage small to very
large collections of specimens effectively. Some of its capabilities include:
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Mineralogy - Primary and accessory minerals, and variety.
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Purchase Info - How acquired, price/value, date, and from whom acquired.
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Appraisal Info - Appraiser, date and value.
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Size - General size, and specific measurements for specimen and main crystal using metric or english units.
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Weight - Specific weight for specimen using metric or english units. (NEW)
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Systematics - Chemical classification, Strunz and Dana numbers, chemical formula, and crystallography.
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Properties - Pick from a customizable list (e.g., twins, habits, etc.), or enter fully searchable text.
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Notes - Add up to 64,000 characters of notes and ex-collection info to each specimen.
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Photos - Add JPG photo to each specimen.
And, add JPG photos to each locality (NEW)
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Reports - Produce reports using a powerful report selection engine to select items to print using one to many characteristics.
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Labels - Produce standard labels (TN, miniature, small and large cabinet) using the same powerful report selection engine.
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Extensive Locality Info - A separate locality database stores mine names, mining districts/regions, geographic features,
counties, states/provinces, countries, continents, and up to 64,000 characters of notes for each locality. Nearly 400 localities are preloaded.
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3800+ Predefined Minerals - Mineral names, chemical formula and classification, Dana and Strunz classification, mineral group,
crystallography, pseudo-forms, IMA approved and/or discredited, and a "common" flag are preloaded and fully customizable.
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Many Lookup Tables Ease Data Entry - 14 fully customizable lookup tables come preloaded to simplify and standardize data entry -
including lists of mineral groups; crystallography; specimen type, size, status, and quality; 203 countries; and 3,458 states/provinces.
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Internet Support - Lookups into Mindat.org for both minerals and localities. (NEW)
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System Requirements:
Windows NT, 2000, and XP
This version is now mostly Vista compatible, except for one feature--selecting
photos for the catalog using picture thumbnails. A workaround is
in this new version, but thumbnail photos are not available under Vista.
GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog is not currently
compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows.
GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog has not yet
been tested under Windows 7. |
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The Trial version is a fully functioning copy of GneissWare® Mineral Catalog.
It is limited to adding no more than 10 specimens into the
catalog. Purchasing will remove this limitation. |
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For Information on Localities, We Use and Recommend:
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For Print Previews and Control, and to
Create PDF files from GneissWare™
Mineral Catalog (and all other Windows programs), we recommend FinePrint and pdfFactory.
Free Trial versions are available at:
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For a tour of features and examples of GneissWare™ Mineral Catalog, please use the
Feature Tour link.
Many, if not most, of the improvements over the past
15
years are a direct result of the many suggestions
from our customers. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.
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