Heiß, heißer…Live TV!

Posted on 23. May, 2013 in Company, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, tizi

Spontan-Fernsehen per Quotenbarometer, die (brand)neue Live TV App zeigt per Quote an, welche Sendungen gerade „hot“ sind. Bieten die jeweiligen TV-Kanäle Live-Streams an, können App-User sofort darauf zuzugreifen – ganz ohne Hardware. Einzelne Sendungen, Kommentare oder die Live Quote teilt man mit Freunden flink per Twitter oder Facebook. In der Live Quote lässt sich effektvoll mitverfolgen, wie einzelne Sendungen auf- und absteigen. Klingelt der Quotenalarm, hat es eine neue Sendung gerade wieder auf Platz 1 in den TV Charts geschafft.

Die Live TV App gibt es ab sofort zum Einführungspreis von nur 0,89 EUR statt regulär 1,79 EUR im App Store. Für die innovative App für iPhone und iPad hat equinux jetzt eine neue Unternehmenstocher mit dem Namen Live TV GmbH gegründet.

Mail Designer: Create templates for Campaign Monitor

Posted on 23. April, 2013 in Mail Designer

You can now create a design in Mail Designer and upload it to Campaign Monitor: add placeholder tags, choose a client account and upload your template to a Campaign Monitor account. We’ve designed the workflow with creative agencies and designers in mind – Mail Designer is the perfect app for creating newsletter templates for Campaign Monitor — right on your Mac.

Here’s how it works:

Mail Designer 1.3 now supports Campaign Monitor placeholders for your recipient’s name, email address and more, allowing you to customize your message for each and every reader. If you design for multiple clients, you can choose each sub-account while uploading your template from Mail Designer.

Mail Designer 1.3 is a free update for existing users. Mail Designer is available from the equinux Online Store for just $69.99: equinux.com/maildesigner.

Mail Designer: Adding videos to newsletters

Posted on 9. January, 2013 in Mail Designer

A picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million! With a brief video, you can introduce your product, show off features, and create a more personal connection with customers. Mail Designer makes it easy to add video links to your email newsletters.

Preparing your video

Most users will only watch roughly 60 seconds of content so keep it to the point. Then upload your video to the web – we recommend using YouTube or Vimeo, as they will ensure that your video looks great on mobile devices, as well as on Macs and PCs.

Adding videos to your newsletter

Most email apps do not support videos directly, so we’ll be using an embedded preview link instead. Mail Designer includes a video preview placeholder that makes it easy to create a play button preview image in your email:

1) Drag in a video image placeholder

2) Double-click the image placeholder (you should see a yellow border) and drag a still shot from your video onto the placeholder

3) Add a link so clicking the video will take the reader to your video on YouTube, Vimeo, or a page on your website

Metrics

By embedding your video on Vimeo or YouTube, you also get extensive statistics, such as number of plays, how long people watched your video and more. Measure the success of your video campaign and adjust your next video accordingly.

That’s it

And that’s how easy it is to use videos in email newsletter campaigns with Mail Designer. Take a free trial version of Mail Designer for a spin and let us know if your have any thoughts or questions!

Black Friday Sale!

Posted on 22. November, 2012 in Company

Enjoyed your Thanksgiving turkey? Then let the shopping season begin! Until November 26th we’re getting into the seasonal spirit with our annual Black Friday Sale! And this isn’t just you run-of-the-mill sale: all our Black Friday offers are an incredible 50% off.

This one-of-a-kind deal includes our productivity tools Mail Designer for just $34.99 or Stationery Business Edition for $24.99. And we’ve got amazing deals for mobile workers as well: get VPN Tracker Personal for just $64.50.

There’s something for everything in our big 50% off special, so head on over!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Productivity on your Mac: Team & Business Communication

Posted on 4. October, 2012 in Stationery Pack

Introducing Team & Business Communication – over 40 templates for business emails.

We all send more emails than ever before to colleagues, team members, business partners and new contacts. Our new Team & Business Communication templates are designed to help you write all of those messages and pack them in a stylish design.

We went through some of the most common scenarios our users have and designed templates and text to inspire more effective communication. You’ll find templates for:

• News: Inform your business partners, share updates, followup after a phone call

• Meetings:  Plan meetings, assign tasks, share the agenda

• Team: Motivate your team, colleagues, teams and less formal contacts

So check out our 43 new templates for Apple Mail today and start sending effective and elegant business emails.

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tizi is ready for iPhone 5 and iOS 6

Posted on 25. September, 2012 in tizi

In case you missed it with all the iPhone 5 excitement: tizi 2.2.3 is out with full iOS 6 and iPhone 5 support. We now support the new 4″ screen size on the new iPhone 5 and new 5th generation iPod touch.

Widescreen films and TV shows look absolutely stunning on the 16:9 display, making the iPhone 5 the perfect pocketable TV companion for when you’re out and about.

Have fun with tizi and tizi+ on your iPhone 5!

We’ve tamed Mountain Lion

Posted on 31. July, 2012 in SongGenie, The Tube

With so many equinux apps to get ready for Apple’s latest and greatest, we’ve been working hard so that everything is as ready as soon as possible. Here’s a quick rundown of all the app updates we’ve just released.

Note to Mac App Store customers: as always we have to rely on Apple to review updates to our Mac App Store apps and this is currently taking a bit longer than usual. We hope that the App Store review team will be able to approve our Mac App Store updates shortly. If you have any questions, please contact our support team and we’ll find a solution.

Here are the details on our Mountain Lion updates:

• iSale – we released 5.8.7 to tackle a couple of  issues with Mountain Lion and now it’s all systems go! We have also submitted the update to Apple and it should hopefully be available for our Mac App Store customers soon.
• CoverScout & SongGenie – our MusicLovers apps are both running smoother than ever on OS X 10.8. We’ve fixed an issue with existing cover thumbnails not appearing, so it’s all systems go in the music world!
• Mail Designer – today we released Mail Designer 1.2.3. This new update will ensure that all our newsletter creators and mail superstars now work correctly with changes in Apple Mail. A few things have been moved around in 10.8 and as Mail Designer and Stationery Pack both work so closely with Apple Mail, this update is important to ensure they’re all on the same page.
• Stationery Pack – the same goes for Stationery Pack. Stationery Pack browser 2.9.4 keeps everything working smoothly to ensure that all your templates are ready to go from either the Stationery Pack app itself or from within Mail.
• The Tube – also gets a little shine and polish and is ready for Mountain Lion.
• VPN Tracker – works with Mountain Lion, however we are still investigating a DNS issue with Apple.

We pushed updates for nearly all our Mac apps over the last week (shoutout to our amazing developers for all their work) and we hope you’re enjoying your favorite equinux apps with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion!