The last couple of weeks in the tech department have been pretty busy getting ready for Confex 2010 which starts on Tuesday next week at Earls Court.

Our stand (G621) is covered in digital signage screens showing off dynamic wayfinding, meeting room signs/booking, touchscreens and electronic notice boards and we've had our work cut out putting together all of the kit to drive them - we even had to roll a new MediaCAT operating system to drive some brand new embedded screens!

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Some of you may have read our recent news article about the Digital Wayfinding system for the Novotel London West Hotel which we installed last year. Whilst digging through our photo archives to find some pictures of the system in action for the case study on our website, we came across some photos we took during testing in our office. If anyone left their desk for too long during that week, there was a good chance their screen would go missing!

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We've written yet another MediaCAT Digital Signage plugin - this one for Estate Agent window displays - except it's not actually a plugin. We actually spent more time arguing over whether it qualified as a plugin than we did writing it. We've now decided it's definitely not a plugin, but we're still not sure what to call it - perhaps a content pack is the best description for it at the moment!

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One of our hardware partners, Fairchild SDS, have just got hold of an extremely bright LED backlit LCD panel. Taking advantage of some rare winter sunshine, we took it outside to see if it really is any better than a normal LCD panel.

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The tech blog has been a bit quiet for the last week or so because we've been busy updating our coporate websites - go to www.navaho.co.uk to see the brand new sites!

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It's January, the coldest one for 20 years, the snow has just melted and more is on its way. So are we keeping warm inside? No, we're installing solar panels on the office roof...

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Our sales and marketing team are back from another gruelling BETT show and the good news for us techies is that our Digital Signage education plugin which we mentioned in the blog last week was received really well at the show.

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Every other UK web site seems to have some snowy pictures on it, so we thought we'd post one from the New Forest.

All of that snow has melted away in the forest now and rather fittingly a Pine Trail has just appeared...an Intel Atom one that is...

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We're just putting the finishing touches to our new Education plugin which we will be unveiling at the BETT 2010 show which begins on Wednesday this week.

This new plugin should make it a lot easier for schools to use MediaCAT as Electronic Notice Boards, especially when you have several of them dotted around the site.

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Welcome to the MediaCAT TechBlog

In the Navaho R&D department we're always trying out new pieces of hardware to help improve our MediaCAT Digital Signage and Electronic Notice Board products. From embedded screens to the latest low-power Mini-ITX boards or video capture cards to solar powered bus stops we're always playing with some new tech in the office.

Much of what we work on is either customer specific, or never sees the light of day due to lack of demand, however whenever our sales guys mention what us techies have been up to in their meetings, it always generates a lot of interest. So that's what this blog is all about!

During the year we'll be regularly updating this blog with details of all the cool new toys we've got our hands on, the even cooler Digital Signage deployments we've been doing (where we're allowed to!), and no doubt a few entertaining snippets along the way

We'd also like to hear from you, our customers. If you like what you see, have any ideas or requirements that we might be able to help with or just want to know about the latest greatest ITX board we've just fired up for the first time, then please get in contact with us.