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RSS Feed Helper
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an international standard for providing lists of information. Many websites and information providers are able to provide information about their products, news, weather, traffic information and more using this simple format. Acquire can display any RSS2.0 format feeds, together with any associated media, but to prevent the players ‘hammering’ the provider’s servers, this helper program collects the feed on a regular, configurable time, and caches the information on the player device, ready for when it needs to be displayed. If the network link fails, the helper will continue to use the cached version for a period you choose before deleting the feed (which causes Acquire Player to not show any pages containing the feed). The helper also provides filters to allow you to restrict certain items out of the feed, or only include items in the feed, to make any 3rd party or generalized feeds more appropriate to your use. Note: please see the MyMessage web service below for details of how you can create your own feeds.
We also pleased to MyMessage; a great new web service we've created for easily making your own RSS Feeds.
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an international standard for providing lists of information. Many websites and information providers are able to provide information about their products, news, weather, traffic information and more using this simple format. Acquire can display any RSS2.0 format feeds, together with any associated media, but to prevent the players ‘hammering’ the provider’s servers, this helper program collects the feed on a regular, configurable time, and caches the information on the player device, ready for when it needs to be displayed. If the network link fails, the helper will continue to use the cached version for a period you choose before deleting the feed (which causes Acquire Player to not show any pages containing the feed). The helper also provides filters to allow you to restrict certain items out of the feed, or only include items in the feed, to make any 3rd party or generalized feeds more appropriate to your use. Note: please see the MyMessage web service below for details of how you can create your own feeds.
We also pleased to MyMessage; a great new web service we've created for easily making your own RSS Feeds.
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CiY - Code it Yourself
One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
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One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
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Remote Media
Although you can use Acquire’s built-in methods of transferring content to the players, you may want the players to collect some specific content external to these methods. The RemoteMedia helper will let you do this. By entering an HTML or FTP address into the Remote Media configuration, the players will visit those locations and download the files on your chosen timescale, then rename them and save them alongside your media so that you can show them as part of your presentation. Our customers have used this helper for collecting and displaying the font pages of well known newspapers from JPEGs on their websites, downloading latest versions of XML datafiles for near-live availability displays, or for downloading podcasts of the latest news.
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Although you can use Acquire’s built-in methods of transferring content to the players, you may want the players to collect some specific content external to these methods. The RemoteMedia helper will let you do this. By entering an HTML or FTP address into the Remote Media configuration, the players will visit those locations and download the files on your chosen timescale, then rename them and save them alongside your media so that you can show them as part of your presentation. Our customers have used this helper for collecting and displaying the font pages of well known newspapers from JPEGs on their websites, downloading latest versions of XML datafiles for near-live availability displays, or for downloading podcasts of the latest news.
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Folder Slideshow
Whether using a local or network shared folder, the Folder Slideshow helper will regularly scan the folders for media of your chosen type and maintain a list of those files. Using Acquire’s variables feature, the media can be displayed whenever you require in the presentation, with a different piece of media each time the Acquire page is displayed.
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Whether using a local or network shared folder, the Folder Slideshow helper will regularly scan the folders for media of your chosen type and maintain a list of those files. Using Acquire’s variables feature, the media can be displayed whenever you require in the presentation, with a different piece of media each time the Acquire page is displayed.
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Dynascript
By producing a simple XML file, and providing it on a webserver, the Dynascript helper will collect the file and tell Acquire to play the pages, play the scripts, and even change the variables as defined in the XML playlist. The players using this helper will display the playlist downloaded in the XML file unless you have scheduled a playlist to them. You can use this to create a simple playlist generation system for the players, as we have provided with the Online Management system.
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By producing a simple XML file, and providing it on a webserver, the Dynascript helper will collect the file and tell Acquire to play the pages, play the scripts, and even change the variables as defined in the XML playlist. The players using this helper will display the playlist downloaded in the XML file unless you have scheduled a playlist to them. You can use this to create a simple playlist generation system for the players, as we have provided with the Online Management system.
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GPS
Using the supplied GPS receiver, the player can be installed in a moving vehicle (bus, coach, ferry, taxi, etc), and depending upon the location and direction of travel, it will change the playlist to show content appropriate to them. Up to 1024 areas can be defined to ensure your content is appropriate to the location. Also provides ‘raw’ GPS information into Acquire to provide the content with information such as location, direction and speed for use with on-screen maps, etc.
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Using the supplied GPS receiver, the player can be installed in a moving vehicle (bus, coach, ferry, taxi, etc), and depending upon the location and direction of travel, it will change the playlist to show content appropriate to them. Up to 1024 areas can be defined to ensure your content is appropriate to the location. Also provides ‘raw’ GPS information into Acquire to provide the content with information such as location, direction and speed for use with on-screen maps, etc.
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Bluetooth
Then using the helper and supplied Bluetooth dongle, this helper provides you with everything you need to provide your own bluecasting solution to target your message at users with mobile phones and PDAs up to 100metres from your player. If Bluecasting, the helper uses intelligent marketing to avoid annoying prospective users by only sending messages to potential users if they accept the invitation to receive the file(s), and then remembers their choice and doesn’t try again for 24 hours. Alternatively, it can be used so that the user requests the file from Acquire, or even just to monitor the number of people with Bluetooth nearby and affect the playlist.
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Then using the helper and supplied Bluetooth dongle, this helper provides you with everything you need to provide your own bluecasting solution to target your message at users with mobile phones and PDAs up to 100metres from your player. If Bluecasting, the helper uses intelligent marketing to avoid annoying prospective users by only sending messages to potential users if they accept the invitation to receive the file(s), and then remembers their choice and doesn’t try again for 24 hours. Alternatively, it can be used so that the user requests the file from Acquire, or even just to monitor the number of people with Bluetooth nearby and affect the playlist.
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Tube Service
To make people look at your screens, why not provide a public service and show the current travel information for the London underground in your presentation? The Tube helper ‘screen scrapes’ the official London Underground website for status and information on all of the lines and provides them as variables for use in Acquire or any Flash animation you may want to use. Note you may need to inform the London Underground of your use of the information if you are using it commercially.
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To make people look at your screens, why not provide a public service and show the current travel information for the London underground in your presentation? The Tube helper ‘screen scrapes’ the official London Underground website for status and information on all of the lines and provides them as variables for use in Acquire or any Flash animation you may want to use. Note you may need to inform the London Underground of your use of the information if you are using it commercially.
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Weather
By entering the location of your player into the helper, it will regularly check for the latest weather conditions and provide a wealth of this and other weather-related information straight into Acquire. You can then display the information natively in Acquire, or even show it on a Flash weather map, just like a TV station. Note you may need to inform weather.com about your use of the information commercially.
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By entering the location of your player into the helper, it will regularly check for the latest weather conditions and provide a wealth of this and other weather-related information straight into Acquire. You can then display the information natively in Acquire, or even show it on a Flash weather map, just like a TV station. Note you may need to inform weather.com about your use of the information commercially.
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Background Media Player (BMPlayer)
Using the background Music Player pack, you are able to produce scheduled audio playlists which run in the background of your main presentation. At key points in either your audio playlist or your visual playlist, the two can synchronise together to create a bigger impact than either one alone.
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Using the background Music Player pack, you are able to produce scheduled audio playlists which run in the background of your main presentation. At key points in either your audio playlist or your visual playlist, the two can synchronise together to create a bigger impact than either one alone.
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Timed Trigger
Acquire has built-in controls for triggers from Serial, Keyboard and TCP-IP sources, and by using ACQs and helpers, a variety of other triggers can control the playlist. The normal playlist controls within Acquire are sequential – that is, each page is played in sequence only if it is allowed to play at that time of day/day of week/week of year, etc. The Timed Trigger helper allows you to schedule pages to display at EXACT scheduled times, overriding any currently playing content. This is ideal for if you have to show content at specific times, such as ‘on the hour news’.
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Acquire has built-in controls for triggers from Serial, Keyboard and TCP-IP sources, and by using ACQs and helpers, a variety of other triggers can control the playlist. The normal playlist controls within Acquire are sequential – that is, each page is played in sequence only if it is allowed to play at that time of day/day of week/week of year, etc. The Timed Trigger helper allows you to schedule pages to display at EXACT scheduled times, overriding any currently playing content. This is ideal for if you have to show content at specific times, such as ‘on the hour news’.
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