Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco

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Originally uploaded by SteveHargadon.

We set up 20 IBM laptops running LiveKiosk for the press room at the Office 2.0 conference at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco this week. The timing was nice, as the day we were setting up the article in ServerWatch.com came out. It was such a good, concise description of what our program does that we just used that for publicity.

The use of the laptops was donated by Computer Recycling Center of Santa Rosa, and they worked perfectly. We used our new version of the software, and so were able to configure the home pages for each machine directly from the control panel. Sweet!

LiveKiosk at NECC 2006

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Originally uploaded by dinghyman.

We set up 20 EZWebPC machines at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Diego last week as part of our Open Source lab. They were a spectacular hit. Not only were they busy almost all of the three days of the show, there were times when there were two or three people in line to use them.

We ran the CD version of EZWebPC on old P3 IBM Thinkpads, putting external scroll mice with each one. There wasn't a single problem with them during the show--when I talked about the kiosks before each of our lab sessions, I could see people's eyes go wide as I would describe how they could run for years without ever requiring a reboot or any maintenance.

I do love this product. :)

Screenshot of the User Interface for LiveKiosk

After our inaugural blog post, we received a comment from Canada asking if we could provide an image of the user interface for LiveKiosk. Great request! Here it is (click for a larger version) -->

This should give you a pretty good idea of what the browser looks like when it hits the default home page. Of course, when you buy the licensed version, you can set that home page to whatever page you would like. Or you can set LiveKiosk to just show the content of a webpage without any of the "trappings" of the browser. We call this "walled garden" mode and it lets you share content from the web without necessarily allowing web browsing.

We have received another request to be able to hide the print button in settings where you don't want to offer printing, so we are going to work on that. Another good idea. Keep sending 'em our way!