We're pleased to announce a few new CloudShow apps to give you greater flexibility in what you can show on your displays! This week we've added Instagram, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and PDF apps to the list.

Instagram

The Instagram app allows you to login with your account and display a slidedshow of images that are posted to your account. Note that the Instagram API is restrictive and doesn't allow you to pull images from other user's feeds.

Instagram App

Word, PowerPoint, and PDF

On the Content Management page, you can now upload Word, PowerPoint, and PDF documents. They'll automatically get converted into a format that works with CloudShow, and you'll receive an email notifying you when the conversion is done. When the conversion is complete, you can add the newly uploaded files to the appropriate app for that file type. You can also use Word pages, PowerPoint slides, and PDF pages in the Image Slideshow app.

Content Management Page

MS Word App

MS PowerPoint App

PDF App

We've just rolled out a CloudShow update with a couple of exciting new changes! We've added a new "Device Map" page, and made some substantial improvements to the Image Slideshow app and Content management pages.

Device Maps

First off, we've added a "Device Map" page so that you can quickly see the location and status of any device in your organization. To view the Device Map, click the "View Device Map" link at the top of your Dashboard, and you'll be presented with a map that looks something like this:

Green balloons represent online devices, red balloons represent offline devices, and clicking on a balloon will give you more details about the device. If there are multiple devices in the same area, they'll be combined into one balloon and you'll see the details for all of them when clicking the balloon. A balloon that's half green, half red indicates there are multiple devices, with at least one online and one offline.

Image Slideshow Improvements

We've also made some great improvements to the Image Slideshow app, and the Content management page. In the Image Slideshow Settings dialog, we've improved the image selector. It now shows image previews, and you can select multiple images quickly by holding CTRL when selecting the images, or by clicking the "Select All" link at the top.

Content Management Improvements

Over on the Content page, you can now easily delete multiple images by using the checkboxes to select them all before clicking the delete button. You can also click the Edit (pencil) icon next to an image to see more details about the image, and replace the image with a newer version if needed.

We're very happy to announce layouts and scheduling for CloudShow! This fantastic new functionality will allow you to create, duplicate, and modify different layouts for a device, and either change between them manually, or on a schedule. You can schedule layout changes for anywhere between 15 minutes and 24 hours.

To add new layouts and edit schedules, follow the steps below:

1. On the device's page, click Add or Duplicate in the Layout box. Add will start with a completely blank layout for the device whereas Duplicate will start with a copy of the current layout for the device.
   
2. Edit the layout as needed.
   
3. If you'd like to schedule layout changes, click the "Scheduling" link in the Layout box.
   
4. Enable the "Use detailed scheduling..." checkbox.
   
5. To add a scheduled layout to a day, click anywhere in a blank spot on that day. The new scheduled item will fill the blank space, and you can then drag it to reduce the time if needed, or drag it to a different time slot or day.
   
6. If you want to use the same schedule for every day, after setting up the first day, click the "duplicate" icon at the top of the day and it will be copied to all other days.
   
7. When you're all finished up, click the Save button to apply your schedule setup/changes.

As always, if you run into any trouble at all, please don't hesitate to contact us.

We're very happy to announce templates for CloudShow! This amazing new feature lets you copy a device configuration to a template, then use that template on as many devices as you want. Simply update the template and like magic all the devices using that template will be updated instantly. Check out the magic of templates today!

We're very happy to announce the new Timer app and the ability to control a client's auto-start setting from the server. The timer app gives you a stopwatch that you can use to time things, just click anywhere in the content frame to reset the timer. The auto-start control lets you decide whether you want CloudShow to automatically launch on your device when the device turns on.

See all the apps available for CloudShow on the Apps & Content page. Looking for an app we don't yet support? Let us know!

Timer App

Auto-start Control

We're very happy to announce that the new CloudShow Windows client supports per-frame scaling. Set the value to 50% to shrink your content by half, 200% to double, or any other value you need to get your content looking perfect. We have also added controls to everyone's device management page to allow you to refresh or update all devices with one-click.

See all the apps available for CloudShow on the Apps & Content page. Looking for an app we don't yet support? Let us know!

Per-Frame Scaling

Device Management