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 Post subject: Anyone else receive this offer?
PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:20 am 
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Hello all -- I received this offer by email a few days ago, and am just wondering if it's legit. It was actually addressed to me, by name (someone knows my name! :smt087 ) Has anyone else received this offer?



Gemewizard is a "revolutionary" gem color communication tool.

Following its outstanding success over the last year, Gemewizard offers you a free 30 days trial version of the Gemewizard/Gemesquare.

We are sure that this 30 days trial will help you understand the benefits of using the Gemewizard.

In order to download the 30 Days Trial Version, please first click the following link: Get GemeSquare Trial Version

If you have any questions, please contact me at liat@gemewizard.com


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I got it too.
Haven't downloaded it yet.


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i downloaded that program but when i open program it refuses to work, and my computer has been a little ill ever since.i fear a virus may have been unleashed :(


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I downloaded this several weeks ago. The first time I installed it, I got error messages. SO I uninstalled. THen When I tried to reinstall it told me I couldn't because it was already installed. UTTER FRUSTRATION! So I contacted the vendor and they very quickly sent me a link to an alternate download with a patched version that DID work. And I have been happily enjoying the program ever since.

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The program is great....but a little too expensive.


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Thanks for your opinions. Hmmm ... think I'll skip downloading it. I agree with Barbra ... it probably is a great program, but unless I get into appraisals, I don't think I can justify paying their price :? .

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 Post subject: The download is also in Gemewizard site
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The download is also in the Gemewizard's site.
I downloaded it and installed it.
It is working perfect.


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Oh, thanks, colorgem :) . I'll go to their website and check it out.

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I tried the software when it first came out. I have the present demo as well. The initial trial package showed more features: interface to your inventory and outside gem databases, grading adjustment, and more. I believe Stuller picked up the exclusive after that for a while.

The present demo doesn't show off such features. BUT for over $500, I wonder what features are not in the demo. I think the download site explains a little about what should be done to get the full benefit of the system - calibrations, lighting, and such. GemE indicated the it was also working toward a standardization of lighting and shooting conditions, etc, to make the syst4m more accurate. Theoretically, you would take a pic, pull it into GemE, then match the color with a color displayed by GemE. You can do that with the demo software. WHEW!!! Looks like it will get a little more expensive than its present cost.

That said, it is a neat package. If the "square" could be purchased as a stand alone for considerably less, I would buy, perhaps even recommend it. For those new to grading gem color, it is exceptionally useful I would think. GIA is, or is contemplating, using the system, for its students, and perfecting the system with GemE, I believe.

If you haven't looked at Doos' site or the Gemology Project, both accessible from this forum, I recommend it. The color tutorial there probably does everything the GemE does, except pull a pic from your database. One of our programmer members might talk to Doos about adding that capability to his system. Pulling the stone from a database into either system has its problems, though. The questions of shooting parameters remains critical. I think you are safer doing a simple calibration of you monitor, and matching your stone to your monitor with stone in hand.

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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
The program is great....but a little too expensive.



Right... I wonder if having a free similar tool like that on the web (say, related to a website like this, where exposure, support and peer-review is a breeze!) wouldn't make allot more sense. :idea:

If it really is a communication tool, then let it be one used for lots and lots of communication ... with a little monetized value added, not the other way around. 8)

Random thought. Just one I've been thinking of for quite a long while.



O have seen GemWizard. Not terribly impressed with the graphics though.

The concept on YEY.Be of using models to teach color seems better :P

I would be delighted to see the features of the two put together, as they fit so well, methinks. Would be delighted to see to it as well.


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valeria102 wrote:
Barbra Voltaire wrote:
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If it really is a communication tool, then let it be one used for lots and lots of communication ... with a little monetized value added, not the other way around. 8)....



I agree. For the asking price, the system will never become a universal tool, and eventually will go the way of all the others. RIP.

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