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Computerize Your Assets - Extended

Maintain a Complete Home Inventory!

Quick! Close your eyes! Now describe everything that's around you in the room. Should be easy to do - it's your stuff and you see it every day, right?

As it turns out, it's really quite hard to recall everything you own, which is exactly what you would need to do if you wanted insurance to cover your losses as a result of a fire, flood, or other catastrophe. In fact, even if you do remember the basics, in order to make a rock solid insurance claim you're going to need even more -- make, model, serial... you get the idea.

The best way to be absolutely certain that you have a proper accounting of your home inventory is with Computerize Your Assets. It's a revolutionary program that makes it simple to document and catalog all of your personal assets, down to your last compact disc!

Computerize Your Assets is so easy to use you'll be up and running in minutes! You can keep track of an unlimited number of items stored in an unlimited number of rooms, and you can create categories to match your own personal situation. You can include digital photos and video of your items, and you can even scan in warranty and insurance documentation! Even your credit cards are covered by the program - just enter account statements and contact numbers to create a go-to resource should you ever lose your wallet. Computerize Your Assets even comes with a handy search function that allows you to pull up all of the information on a particular item just by entering its name.

Do you have several furnished apartments, a small business, a vacation home, or a city getaway? Worry not, the Extended Version of Computerize Your Assets also includes the ability to manage multiple properties at once!

The Extended Version of Computerize Your Assets also features the new Estate Planning function! Do you ever worry about conflicts over who's supposed to receive what out of your collection of valuables? Visions of friends and loved ones fighting each other over what your intentions were? Well, with the Extended Version of Computerize Your Assets, all you need to do is create a list of designated recipients, select one, and checkbox all of the things that you intend to give to that person "if anything happens". Plus, the reports produced from this information are perfect for submitting to an estate planner or attorney!

Once you have your entire life cataloged in Computerize Your Assets, you can view your inventory by exporting the data to a spreadsheet file, displaying a visual graph by category or location, or producing a summary or detail report, which is extremely useful for filing insurance claims. And, even though Computerize Your Assets contains an inventory of everything you own, no need to worry - all of your data can be safely encrypted, and secure offsite backup is as easy as a single button push!

Please note: today's promotion is for the Extended Version of Computerize Your Assets. Take a look at the comparison chart to see exactly what you're getting.

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  • Build and maintain a complete inventory of your personal assets.
  • Augment your inventory with photos, videos, even scanned documents.
  • Ensure that you have sufficient insurance coverage to cover your losses.
  • Have an easily accessible record of your credit card contact information, in case you lose your wallet.
  • Produce reports quickly for insurance claims.
  • Encrypt your data and back it up to an offsite destination with a single click.
  • Extended Version Only: Manage multiple properties.
  • Extended Version Only: Estate planning tools and features.
  • Purchase with BitsDuJour's discount coupon code and get all this at a promotional price!
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The Conversation

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M B Maybe I am missing something, but these two statements in the Policy Tab appear incongruent.
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Computerize Your Assets - Extended is licensed per computer, so if you want to install Computerize Your Assets - Extended on multiple computers you will have to purchase multiple licenses.

Computerize Your Assets - Extended may be used at the same time on multiple computers.
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Clarification would be very appreciated.

Thanks
Nov 13 2011 at 4:07am
Michael K @ Lee Hydechuk - Developer

Hi Lee, I bought CYA last time it was offer on Bits in May.although
I did not yet get around to installing the software as at the time.

I was in the process of changing computers and then overlooked it. Seeing this promotion reminded me to do the install, which I did this morning.

I have two reasons for writing this post:

1) During the last promotion there was an extensive "conversation" in which I participated and you were very responsive which was a large contributing factor in me buying your program. I would encourage Bits users to click on "load older comment" above as their their questions may already be answered in these prior posts.

2) It is my experience that many Bits users, included me, are sensitive to the cost of keeping software versions up to date.

In installing your software this morning, I note that it is up to version 2.9 and there has been 1 or maybe 2 updates since I purchased in May. This is encouraging as we gain confidence when software is regularly maintained and updated.

That said, I and other active Bits buyers are as I already mentioned are sensitive to the cost of keeping up to date. As you have a policy of the next major version cost being chargeable with a 40% discount it looks like that may not be too far off as you are currently at version 2.9.

My question is therefore, what will be your policy regarding purchasers of this Bits promotion and a purchase made in May which mine fell into?

I do hope you are feeling generous and we will be upgraded without charge :-)

Thanks

Michael
Nov 13 2011 at 5:24am
Scott Kettman I bought the standard version back in 2009. When I went to the CYA web site looking for a version history I could not find one. Could you point to the link that defines the changes as the program has been updated? Thanks.
Nov 13 2011 at 12:28pm
Lee Hydechuk M B - Some new features were added to the BDJ vendor setup and we somehow overlooked them. The information is now updated.

Thank you for pointing this inconsistency out to us.

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 14 2011 at 6:03am
Lee Hydechuk Michael K - I wouldn't be too alarmed by the version number. Our version numbering schema goes something like: XXX.XXX.XXX ( MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD) so you can see we have plenty of room left before a major release is emanate. (2.999.999)

I'm not really certain I completely understand your question as you have already discovered your May purchase was automatically brought current when you finally installed it. Version 2.9 is the current release.

We believe we have "always" been more than fair to our customers when it comes to upgrades and new features and see no reason to alter our policy anytime soon.

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 14 2011 at 6:21am
Lee Hydechuk Scott - Somehow the original file got lost and it didn't hardly seem worth the effort to attempt to reconstruct it.. Had there been a multitude of paid upgrades involved we probably would have looked at it a little differently.

As it is, every update has been free for every license holder so we just assumed everyone would install them without question.

If a free update is released for any product you own you should install it. Often there will be subtle bug fixes that won't be mentioned even if there were a release history.

I'll see if this revision history can be made available again.

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 14 2011 at 6:30am
J S Hi Lee,

My question(s) is just to ask: do you know when version 3 is planned for release?

Reason for asking: Because you are already at version v2.9, (As there is NO mention in the BdJ Policy section that Bitsdujour buyers will be entitled to a free upgrade to v3) I PRESUME I will have to pay for v3 (as it will be classed as a major upgrade) and I'd just like to know approximtely how long I can use the current version before i'll have to pay for the next version?
Nov 16 2011 at 2:29am
Michael R. I just bought your program, because I think it might be useful to have important item-data be stored in case...

When starting your program I am wondering, if I could save the data to a certain directory choosen by myself. I tried, but I found no way to do that.

The background is that on my harddisk I have one partition for the programs and one for my data-files. The backup-restore-handling is quite different on the two partitions. (After some time when I know what additional programs I want to stay installed on the program-partition, I make a restore on that parition (to have a clear system), only install the programs I want to keep and than make a backup again for the next round). My data-paratition is only backuped and - as long as there occurs no severe error - never restored. The obvious reason is that, when restoring it, all changed data are gone.

I tried to change the execution-directory to the data-directory I wanted the datas to stay in (which works for most programs, which do not allow explicite directory-entries), but with CYA I get the message 'Data files can not be located...'.

Thinking about this message, I suppose CYA looks now inside the desired data-directory and - of course - can't see the expected files there. So perhaps you can tell me which files it expects, so I could just copy them to there?

Way better would be of course, if the directory could be explicetly changed by the user himself. Perhaps this option is somewhere and I just have overseen it? Or could you implement this it in a soon update? I suppose it would be no big thing to implement but very useful...

[ I have seen that there is a backup-function and shortly called it. As it seem the backup-directory can be changed. Not so nice is, it does not remember the change, so next times backup have to be done you have to reenter the change again... ]

Thank you...
Nov 16 2011 at 5:49am
Michael K @ Developer - Lee

Hi Lee,

From your support forum, I see a user wrote saying they could not find a way to import the data when your program, CYA was updated to a newer version. He was updating version 2.5 to version 2.7 and could not find a restore function in 2.7 that imported the data he had backed up from version 2,5

All the programs I know import prior data that was input automatically and I was surprised to see the question. I was even more surprised at the response given to him which was:
:
"We have responded to you in a private Email hoping we can straighten this problem out for you."

May I please ask why it was necessary to write privately to the user in the "hope" of straighten it out? Why not an open explanation of how data is moved from one version to the next?

And why is it not an automatic process that the program does itself when new versions are released? If the current version still does not update data automatically, can you please explain what we as users have to do when new versions of CYA are issued to bring data into it.

On another matter, I see "JS" has also asked about version 3 upgrade being chargeable or free of charge as I also did since the program is already on version 2.9.

When I asked the question further back in the conversation, you responded that there was plenty of room before moving to version 3 as you said the numbering designation is :
XXX.XXX.XXX ( MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD)

As the current version is 2.9.(BUILD???), by your own numbering explanation, it actually does not even provide for a single minor upgrade before you have no alternative but to move to version 3 and therefore the question of whether I, who bought in May at the last promotion as well as those who buy today, will be able to upgrade to version 3 free of charge or not?

I hope the points I make are clear enough but if not, I would be happy to clarify further.

Thanks

Michael
Nov 16 2011 at 5:51am
Bjarne Dein Hi,

Can/will this product be localized to eg. Danish?
Can I do the job myself?

BR Bjarne
Nov 16 2011 at 6:33am
Lee Hydechuk J S - The section under the "Policy" tab regarding upgrades is not written by us. The text is derived from answering several BDJ setup questions. In reality, we "RESERVE THE RIGHT" to charge an upgrade fee on new major version releases.

I will answer your question it this way:

There are no planned "PAID" upgrades within the next year regardless of what the version number is.

Does this help?

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 6:43am
Lee Hydechuk Michael R - We have wrestled with this issue since the introduction of Windows Vista and UAC.

Microsoft kept changing the rules forcing us to jump through bunches of hoops regarding where data files could be kept and accessed. They did things like allowing the files to be placed into certain folders, but then, at run time, forbid the software to access them.

In the end, in order to protect you and your data, we put the files where Microsoft says to put them. At least this way our software will be allowed to access them.

We would much rather have our customers be upset because they are unable to keep their data where they want it as opposed to being angry because it got lost. Trust me when I say, 'WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE".

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 6:55am
Michael K Hi Lee,

Your response to JS concerning no "PAID" upgrades within the next year is most reassuring, clear and much appreciated - thank you.

My only other outstanding question concerns the updating / importation of date when version updates are released. The full text of the point is made in my earlier post and I'll look out for your response in due course.

Many thanks


Michael
Nov 16 2011 at 6:57am
Lee Hydechuk Michael K -

The reason we responded privately to the user you make reference to is quite simply that we did not wish to embarrass him in a public forum.

His issues resulted from things he had done himself which in turn caused the software to be incapable of "UPDATING" its own data files. Do you honestly believe we would release an update and it not update the files?

We actually ended up connecting remotely with this user and fixed it for him even though he is the one that created the situation. Can you name any other software company that will do that for you?

Regarding version 3, I believe I have answered that satisfactorily in my reply to J S.

Does this help?

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 7:06am
Lee Hydechuk Bjarne - Thank you for your question.

The only thing that can be "localized" is the formatting of currency. There are no plans to localize CYA to any language beyond that.

I will pass this on to the tech group to see how difficult of a project it would be to create localization files that could be edited by the user.

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 7:11am
Peter B. A few questions:

1. Does the backup function include photo and video files?
2. when I open the backup file from let's say a usb stick, does the software need to be installed on the computer I'm using. I ask this in case when my computer is destroyed in a fire (or whatever) and I don't have a computer with CYA installed when I'm talking with my insurance company.
3. Does it have a function to synchronize between my laptop and desktop. I can't find it.
Nov 16 2011 at 7:38am
Michael K Hi Lee,

From the forum post, I had no way of knowing that was the user's fault. I had to take the points at face value.

You have answered my questions and points to my complete satisfaction for which I thank you and I'm happy.

Thanks

Michael
Nov 16 2011 at 7:52am
Lee Hydechuk Peter B.-

The CYA backup function is designed to provide you complete confidence that you will never lose any data, images or videos. That being said, it only works if you use it.

How many times have you bought a new computer and then spent an untold number of hours moving all your important data from your old computer to your new computer?

How many times have you lost important data making such a move?

When you perform a backup within CYA, all program files, data files, image files and video files are gathered up and placed into appropriate compressed ZIP files. A single, self extracting executable file is created suitable for you to copy to your favorite storage device. A USB flash drive is perfect and is what we recommend to all out users.

In a nutshell, when you execute the above executable backup file on your new computer, the components will be extracted into a folder of your choice and then an install EXE file is executed by you. This install EXE behaves very similar to the original installer in that all the correct folders are created. This includes all the "Start Menu" entries and othe required shortcuts. The big difference is that instead of empty files being created, all your appropriate data and other files are placed into these folders,

Once installed, when you run CYA the first time on the new computer, CYA will recognize this and offer to "register" it for you on the new computer. It actually remembers your User Name and Registration Key.

We are unaware of "ANY" software application that does this for you. It is all explained in greater detail in the CYA help.

CYA "DOES NOT" have a separate function to synchronize data between multiple computers. Obviously the backup feature can be used for this however.

Does this help?

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 8:53am
Peter B. Thank you Lee. Very clear and convincing answer. I'll buy it.
Nov 16 2011 at 10:09am
Jim Willis I guess I'll have to buy this. Early last summer I was evacuated from my home for 7 days due to a forest fire. Knock on the door at 8a.m..
Gotta leave ASAP. What to take with me? Couldn't take my computers-not enough room in my car. Settled on a netbook that I hardly ever used & 2 ext. hard drives with backups of all my OS's.
Watched fire's progress from motel 10 miles away & was sure my home was gone. Sure, I've got Ins., but they won't pay for all my stuff like computers and electronic equipt. and all the old wood puzzle collection that I have. I thought about not having any record of all that stuff while watching the fire getting closer to my home.
Got very lucky and my home survived with absolutely no damage.
But it did drive home the need to catalogue my belongings.
Hopefully this program will help me do that.
Thanks BDJ and CYA.
Nov 16 2011 at 11:23am
Lee Hydechuk Jim Willis -

I know exactly how you felt.

When hurricane Charley was almost on our doorstep back in 2004 was the moment I realized I had nothing to prove ownership of anything in my home.

That was the eye opener that led to the creation of Computerize Your Assets.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 12:45pm
Jim McGowan Lee,

Can you tell me in what format the data is stored? Or at least to what format(s) can the data be exported? Is it proprietary or a more universal file format? (E.g., sqlite, XML, etc.)

Also, limiting the data store to the Windows User directory? To be honest, I don’t have one program on my computer currently that does not allow me to move the data store. Admittedly on a few I had to edit the .INI file in order to do so, but to lock it in to one location and claim it is for the customer doesn’t quite compute here. It could easily be made user-configurable so that the more advanced users could locate the data where they prefer and the more inexperienced users could just leave it as is.

So could I relocate the data store by editing either an INI file or the Windows registry, if needed?

Thank you.

Jim
Nov 16 2011 at 1:34pm
Lee Hydechuk Jim McGowan -

It wouldn't be that difficult to allow the user to place the data files in a location of their choosing. To the best of my knowledge we have never been asked for this as an option in the past so probably never came up as an issue. If a user should insist on re-locating them, we can assist and inform them what to edit.

The data file are a proprietary structure and there is no ODBC or other connection available for a user to access them except through the application.

Have we failed to provide appropriate features within the software that an external view is required?

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 3:23pm
Roger Thomasson @ Jim Willis

Curious -- were those the Arizona wildfires? Reason I ask is that I was in New Mexico at the time and ash was blowing in over 300 miles from AZ!

-r
Bits du Jour Admin - Nov 16 2011 at 5:04pm
Michael K The point made concerning a user defined data file location is certainly be of interest to me.

I locate all my program data files in a particular folder and therefore only need to back up that single folder rather than a lot of individual data files..

I'm delighted the matter was raised.

Thanks

Michael
Nov 16 2011 at 6:24pm
Jim McGowan Hi Lee. Thank you for the reply!

[quote="Lee"]The data file are a proprietary structure and there is no ODBC or other connection available for a user to access them except through the application. [/quote]

Lee, thank you for the reply! I did notice on your web site that the data can be exported to CSV, which is probably all that is required - hopefully. As XML is fast becoming the standard for many such exports and is more universally importable (Is that even a word?!!?), that might be a good future feature.

[quote="Lee"]
Have we failed to provide appropriate features within the software that an external view is required? [/quote]

It is not an external view I seek, but a way to move my data if the need ever arises. For example, if your software were to take a new path at some point that a user does not wish to follow, they should have the ability to move that data to another application. (E.g., one similar program I used in the past came under new ownership and began including adware/malware in all program update setup files. I wanted out from there but my data was basically trapped. And in two other cases programs I was using simply stopped all development and the result was effectively the same: once again my data was trapped in an unusable and un-exportable format.)

BTW, I've probably been using software for much longer than many posting here, which is why I have had the misfortune to see this kind of thing on more than one occasion. (Read: I am pretty ancient!)

I hope that clears up why I asked those questions Lee, and I do appreciate your frank answers. :)

Jim
Nov 16 2011 at 7:31pm
Lee Hydechuk Jim McGowan -

Your rationale makes perfect sense to me.....

Regards,

Lee
CYA Software, Inc. Vendor - Nov 16 2011 at 8:31pm
Jim McGowan BTW, I just noticed that pages in your online Help file cannot be scrolled. Some pages go down below the bottom of the screen but there's no way to see anything below that point. Only way I could confirm was to Select All & paste it elsewhere. A lot more text & images than show on my screen. Tired viewing it in latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, plus IE8.

Thank you.

Jim
Nov 16 2011 at 9:24pm
Jim Willis Yes Roger - It was indeed one of the Az. wildfires. It was the Monument fire out of Sierra Vista, actually Hereford, Arizona.
Thanks for asking. That week in the motel was the most stressful week in my life. It also should be noted that the people out here were all very helpful and generous during that time.
I did purchase the program and had a brief look at it today.
Looks pretty good and I had no problems with the purchase.
I'll say it again: Thanks very much to BDJ and to CYA .
Also thank you Lee for being so helpful and forthcoming with your answers to the many questions put forth.
Nov 16 2011 at 9:43pm
Michael R. Lee, thanks for the answer.

I'm no expert in the politics of MS, but currently I can't remember any program which seems to have these difficulties.

Let's take for example a graphics-program. It would be very strange if it would allow pictures only to be opened or saved only from inside it's installation-directory, wouldn't it? (And I do not see any difference between this and your program).

Regards,
MichaelR
Nov 17 2011 at 12:06am
S B Lee,

I've purchased a license, and look forward to CYA.

The proprietary data format would be an *absolute deal breaker* without the CSV export mentioned by Jim McGowan.

Have you provided "appropriate features within the software ..."?

That is never possible, because we users want to manipulate, manage, and view our data in our own particular ways and we want to manage how we do it. Not practical or possible to even start to support that.

Further, that's not even the question to ask. The real issue is whether CYA, or any software, of whatever quality, should stand between us and our data.

In this case, it's my data. I need the data that CYA uses to interoperate with my own software and SQL Server--to integrate with other data and the artifacts of my life.

Of course I can certainly do this by duplicating the data and maintaining two sets, one for CYA and another for everything else, but what a waste of CYA and all the effort that went into making CYA a great product.

It's a very important issue. Perhaps not important right now for most people, but it certainly will be in the future.

Thanks for your good product!
Nov 17 2011 at 12:07am
Roger Thomasson @ Jim Willis

Glad to hear that everything ended up ok. Was a scary time indeed.

-r
Bits du Jour Admin - Nov 17 2011 at 8:48am
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