Acquire Upgrades from 3.3 to Version 3.4 of its Digital Signage Editor Software
Having one of the most feature rich digital signage software packages available obviously is not enough for the in-house programming team at Acquire Digital Multimedia. The team has a policy of continually responding to feedback from users of their software so that what might seem a minor software update, from 3.3 to 3.4, is actually pretty major in terms of ease of use and added functionality. So what can we expect to find in Acquire 3.4? Well, as with every new version there are even more ACQs and Helpers. These are the plug-ins that add an extra dimension to Acquire’s functionality. In fact, the sheer number of ACQs available has led to the addition of a categories section on the ACQ chooser page. The RSS functionality in Acquire has been updated. This has been completely rewritten so that the plug-in will now ‘pull down’ any RSS or Atom feed, for example MRSS (Media RSS) feeds, usually used for podcasts. This is ideal if you want to make your players collect different feeds for their locations. It saves a user from having to make lots of different deployments throughout the day. And, images can be made to change as different RSS text scrolls along the page. According to Wikipedia, the following sites all make use of MRSS :- Bing, Brightcove, blip.tv, Blinkx, Bebo Open Media Platform, Cooliris, deviantArt, Flickr, FriendFeed, Gmail, Kaltura, PicasaAPI, SmugMug, the Platform, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Search, Crackle, YouTube GData API (see http: / / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Media_RSS). So MRSS is a very powerful way ...

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