With the “Date/Time” media object of FrontFace digital signage and kiosk software, you can integrate the current date and/or time into your screen content.
In addition to displaying the current date or time as a digital or analog clock, this media object can also display a countdown or ‘egg timer’. You can also use the Date/Time media object to create a world time clock!
Digital signage software is available for various operating systems. Broadly speaking, there are two types of systems used for digital signage: PC-based and SOC (System on a Chip). While PC-based systems use classic PC hardware, usually based on x86 or x64 processors, SOC hardware has the entire system on a chip and is usually integrated directly into the screen. However, there are also external SOC media players and sticks that connect to the display via HDMI or Display Port like PCs.
(more…)The new version 4.7.1 of the digital signage and kiosk software FrontFace comes with many new features and improvements. The update is available for free download in the customer area for all customers who are entitled to updates & support. Interested users can download the fully functional trial version to test it.
Digital signage, used to display information and/or advertising, is everywhere! Not only in shopping malls and large corporations, but also in small and medium sized businesses in the retail, service and hospitality industries, where digital signage offers many advantages, such as digital storefront advertising.
A Media Library is now available as a new feature in the FrontFace Assistant (starting with version 4.7.0). This allows you to easily manage your media such as images, videos, PDFs, XPS files, and audio files throughout the entire project.
(more…)With the new Remote Control Plugin for FrontFace, FrontFace players can be easily “remote controlled” via a smartphone/tablet app. Similar to a TV remote control, playlists can be started, paused or stopped ad hoc, placeholder text in playlists can be filled, and playlist pages can be browsed interactively.
The Remote Control App for remote control via smartphone, tablet or PC is available for Windows, Android (as sideload or via Google Play) and for iOS.
(more…)Not all digital signage systems need to run 24/7. In many cases, there are windows of time when such systems are not needed, or even when they are not allowed to operate due to legal requirements.
To avoid the manual effort of turning systems on and off, they can be started and shut down automatically and time-controlled. We show you how this works!
(more…)In an earlier article, we presented the ways in which Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) can be integrated into FrontFace. With the newly released Excel Viewer Plugin, Excel documents can now be integrated even more easily and, above all, directly.
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