Today, Firefox 3.6 came out. And with it…functional full screen mode for the Mac! That means you can now run RedPost on a Mac Mini without having an annoying toolbar at the top of the screen like there’s been up until now. Sweet! No more second-class citizenship for DIY RedPost/Mac users. Isn’t equality grand? We’ve [...]
A woman walked into BetterWorld Books yesterday as I was standing by the counter. Another customer was at the register so the woman looked at the RedPost/Sign on display by the register. Then, when the register opened up, she said, “Oh, I was going to ask about book recycling but I just saw the answer [...]
Today (er, late last night) we publicly released the latest version of Wicker, our Ubuntu-based operating system that runs on every RedPost/Sign. This version is now compatible with the fit-PC2 and includes the following updates: 8.04 security updates (we’re still on 8.04 as that’s what the fit-PC2 supports) re-worked kernel for compatability with fit-PC2, including SMP [...]
Finally, after a slight delay brought about by a global financial crisis, RedPost today is announcing our new commercial leasing program. We’ve found a great partner in TriLease Corp, a Raleigh, NC-based company with over 10 years experience with a wide variety of assets (from software to recycling systems) and companies, from corporations to non-profits. [...]
Do you like that 5 word 44 character name? It is a bit long. That aside, RedPost is in Indy today at the annual meeting of the Indiana Private Health Care Association. Don Yost (that’s him in the photo below) is heading up this initiative, based on his work at the Maple City Health Care [...]
Today begins installation of our first big-city RedPost installation in the Wicker Park Bucktown neighborhood in Chicago. It’s been over 2 years in the works. Some pics before we hit the road: Our nice KIA rental, 28 MPG! Smaller than I thought a “midsize SUV” would be. Too bad that’s our old logo… And I [...]
Missy, who manages the RedPost/Sign here at BetterWorld Books, the bookstore RedPost’s current World Headquarters are located inside, figured out last Friday that she can put a website onto her Sign as a poster. So she created a Website Poster in her RedPost account using this website, a feature BetterWorld calls “Books Vision” that is [...]
We sent out this message just now to our Service Updates email list (software users who’ve subscribed to receive these sorts of things). Unfortunately, as is the case with Weather.com, we don’t always receive notice of problems like this before they just happen. Gah! Scheduling Update & Potential Problem This week, we upgraded our scheduling [...]
If you have your own RedPost neighborhood, when you log into your neighborhood you’ll now see an Apps tab: A lot of our users don’t know about our apps, of which we currently have 3, Alert, Campus and Promote, we haven’t done a good job of promoting them. This is our first attempt at better [...]
I visited Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, today to check out their RedPost installation. They have 4 RedPost/Boxes driving 4 37″ LCDs with plans to install 4 more at the 2 cafes located in their brand new Fieldhouse sports facility. The LCDs display menus with prices. It’s an incredible facility — 50 meter pool, [...]
