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Preview your content from scheduling - 1.8.3 release

With the release of 1.8.3 comes new features, such as the ability to Preview in scheduling!

Published on: 2017-12-04

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Commercial Services designed for Xibo by the creators of Xibo!

How we work! Commercial services from Spring Signage designed to enhance Xibo and help you on your Digital Signage journey...

Published on: 2017-11-22

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Holiday Opening Times 2017/18

Holiday opening times over the festive period for Spring Signage Commercial Services.

Published on: 2017-11-21

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Use Agenda View in 1.8

A new feature from the 1.8 series found in Scheduling, 'Agenda View'. This spotlight article shows you how to use this feature to keep track of your scheduled content.

Published on: 2017-10-27

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Using Overlay Layouts in 1.8

Another great feature in Xibo 1.8 series is the use of Overlay Layouts. This spotlight article aims to show you what they are and how they can improve your signage.

Published on: 2017-10-20

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Why do we recommend Docker?

Since the 1.8.0-rc1 release, the project has been advocating the use of Docker containers to ease installation. This article explains the reasoning behind that decision, and gives insights in to the benefits that that affords.

Published on: 2017-10-16

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Native v HTML Digital Signage: Which is best?

With two distinct types of Digital Signage player software available, it is often a topic of conversation as to which is best? With industry trends once pointing towards HTML, and with the promise of universal, completely flexible signage, (specifically with the release of HTML5) you may ask why today’s trends lean towards native Digital Signage solutions? Many companies in the world of Digital Signage use HTML based platforms, and it’s understandable why. With no proprietary skills needed, cre

Published on: 2017-10-10

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Apache optionsbleed (CVE-2017-9798)

We have today released updated containers with the patches from Debian/Canonical for the Apache `optionsbleed` vulnerability following the Ubuntu release of those security patches a few hours ago.

Published on: 2017-09-20

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It's here - a Fresh New Look

Whether you visit us regularly or haven't been for a while, you may notice something a little different around here. The Xibo website has had a fresh new design which we hope presents our solution in a nice, easy to understand package. Everything we had before is still here - we've taken content that was spread out over many places and many designs, given it a thorough refit, and engineered it so it all lives under one roof. A big part of this work is to explain who we are and showcase all of

Published on: 2017-09-18

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Xibo for webOS - Request for BETA testers

This beta is now closed. To download a free trial of Xibo for webOS or for licence purchases, please use the following link: https://xibo.org.uk/xibo-for-webos The team at Xibo are very pleased to announce the imminent arrival of Xibo for webOS for Signage; a native “system-on-chip” Xibo player for webOS signage monitors. This is a commercial player built in partnership with Intelligent Media and will require a device licence after the beta period. Xibo for webOS will run on the SM5C and SM5D

Published on: 2017-08-14

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Scheduling your content with Dayparts in 1.8

Dayparting – schedules your content to the Right people, Right place, Right time! So what is Dayparting? Just like in broadcast programming Dayparting allows your scheduled content to be shown the to the right people, on the right day at the right time.  Create and schedule your content into the Daypart and let Xibo do the rest! You can update Daypart time slots to update all existing future events so no need to amend dates/timings in complex schedules. Does your content differ from the w

Published on: 2017-07-26

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Scheduling in 1.8 - Always means Always!

Scheduling Always means just that… Always! You want your displays to show content all the time such as a welcome message in your reception area?  Selecting Always in scheduling will do just that! One of the many new and exciting features of 1.8 is **Always Scheduling.  **This will ensure that the Campaign or Layout selected will **Always **be scheduled.  Content will **Always **be shown on your displays. Gone is the need to specify end dates as **Always **means Always! The Always icon will s

Published on: 2017-04-21

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Xibo 1.8.0 is here!

We are pleased to announce that we’ve released the 1.8.0 stable release of Xibo to the community. This release has taken us 18 months to develop, test and bring to you all and contains a whole host of new features. You can find out more on the Xibo Project Announcement [http://xibo.org.uk/2017/03/21/1-8-0-released/]. We didn’t want our Cloud and Xibo for Android customers to be left behind, so we have our platform ready for 1.8.0 from today! Xibo in the Cloud Xibo in the Cloud now fully suppor

Published on: 2017-03-21

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Holiday Opening Times 2016/17

Please note that Spring Signage will close on Friday 23rd December at 12:00 noon for the UK Christmas holidays and will re-open at 8am on Wednesday 28th December. We will then be open as usual until Friday 30th December. We are then closed all day on Monday 2nd January 2016 and return to normal hours from Tuesday 3rd January 2016. If you require support during these closures, please contact our service desk and we will be in touch as soon as we are able. The team at Spring Signage wish you all

Published on: 2016-11-14

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Xibo 1.8.0-beta available on the Xibo Cloud

We’ve recently released Xibo 1.8.0-beta to the community [http://xibo.org.uk/2016/06/29/1-8-0-beta-released/] which is a major milestone for the project. In conjunction with this release we would like to offer customers 1.8.0-beta demonstration instances on Xibo Cloud so that they can get easy access to the beta test. To get access to one of these exciting demos, select Xibo in the Cloud from our shop [https://springsignage.com/portal/shop] and pick 1.8.0-beta from the version selector. Feed

Published on: 2016-06-30

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