An Open Letter to PEG: Tightrope’s Commitment to Open Source Software (OSS)
Tightrope has been involved in open source projects for several years. What are we up to now and where are we going with that effort?
Announcing Carousel 6.0
Tightrope Media Systems announces the release of Carousel 6.0, a major software update to the Carousel Digital Signage System. Carousel 6.0 includes a number of new features that improve the Template Editor used in the bulletin creation process, the utility of Alert Bulletins, and the functionality of the Remote Data Adapter.
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Over Selling and Economic Profit
In established markets, everyone gets paid pretty much what they are worth. Marketing can skew this and there are always temporary exceptions on specific sales, but when you're talking about putting cables in walls and hanging monitors in public areas, there is profit, but generally no economic profit. In theory and on average, one dollar less and I won't send my tech out to your place to do the work. One dollar more and I'm ahead of the game. We all want to be ahead of the game.
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Tightrope Topical Training Sessions
Join us next Thursday, December 17th at 3pm (Central) for our first of many Tightrope Topical Trainings. We’ll be discussing two main topics:
Weather bulletins in Carousel. We’ll cover how easy it is to create these bulletins, how to handle common problems that occur, and how to design bulletins that only show the current temperature [...]
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Fall ‘09 Channel Designs Now Available!
Fall ‘09 Collection
New to the Store this season:
Clean click for details
Fresh click for details
Opera click for details
Modern Lobby click for details
Examples of icons and templates included with every channel
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Tightrope Appoints Eric Henry as CEO and Jim Morical as Chief Business Development Officer
JJ and I are happy to formally announce that Eric Henry and Jim Morical from the audio visual manufacturers representation firm Kodo James have joined Tightrope Media Systems as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO), respectively.
Eric and Jim, through Kodo James, have represented Tightrope Media Systems in the upper Midwest [...]
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Setting up an external media store in Carousel
We’ve had a few customers running Carousel with a lot of videos, or just really bug signage systems. They have run into a problem of running of out disk storage for Carousel’s media directory on their base installs. I’m going to show you how to move the media directory and re-configre Carousel to use it.
Carousel [...]
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Publishing a calendar from iCal into Carousel
Carousel’s EDS feature can read in iCal calendars from the internet or other calendaring systems. I have show in past posts how to get your google calendar into Carousel. In this example, I’ll show you how to publish your local iCal calendar on your Mac desktop so Carousel can display it.
Basically we need to ‘publish’ [...]
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TRMS Website Relaunch!