We're very excited to announce a powerful new feature, Widgets! CloudShow Widgets allow you to overlay extra information on your content frames. You can add clocks, weather information, custom text/HTML, background audio/music, and more. To get started with Widgets just click the App icon for your content frame to open the radial menu.

Once the radial menu is open, click the Widgets icon and you'll be presented with a list of all the currently available widgets. Select the Widget you would like to add, then adjust it's settings and position.

Voila, you're all set! In the preview below you can see a clock overlaid on the News app. You can customize the look, location, size and more for each widget.

Try out the new Widgets feature today!

The CheckCentral API provides an endpoint for creating checks programmatically. All of the configuration options are available through the API, detailed below. To create a new check through the API, you will require an API token for your organization with Read/Write access. Organization administrators can create tokens through the API portal on your dashboard.

The endpoint is located at https://api.checkcentral.cc/createCheck/?apiToken=APITOKEN where the APITOKEN placeholder is replaced with your valid token. The request must be made with the Content-Type header set to application/json. The body of the request should contain as many of the properties listed below as required to define the check. Any properties not passed will be set to their default value.

For example, to create a new check that:

• Receives messages at the address "demo+apicheck@mycheckcentral.cc"
• Expects messages every two hours
• Expects messages only on weekdays
• Is set to Failure unless the message subject is "Message Success" or the message body has the text "No Errors Reported"

you would send the following json in the body of the request:

The check data must include a name property, as well as at least one of email_alias and matching_conditions to allow the check to be matched against incoming messages.

The complete list of possible properties for check configuration are as follows:

Check Structure

Parameter	Type/Allowed Values	Default
name The name for the new check. The name parameter is required.	String
email_alias The plus alias for the check. This will be used to generate the custom email address for the Check along with your organization account name: account_name+email_alias@mycheckcentral.cc. At least one of the email_alias or matching_conditions parameters must be specified.	String
matching_conditions The rules that will be used to match incoming messages. See the definition of a ConditionGroup below. At least one of the email_alias or matching_conditions parameters must be specified.	ConditionGroup	{}
group_id The ID of the group to assign this check. IDs may be retrieved from the getGroups API endpoint.	String
description A text description for the check.	String
interval_type The interval unit CheckCentral will use to calculate the expected arrival time of incoming messages	One of: minute hour day week month	day
interval_value The number of interval units (see above) used when calculating the expected arrival of incoming messages.	Integer	1
overdue_minutes How many minutes after the interval has elapsed CheckCentral will wait before flagging the check as failed.	Integer	30
window_start An optional time of day when messages will begin to be received.	String	00:00
window_end An optional time of day when messages will cease to be received.	String	00:00
active_days Pass an array of days to indicate which days the check should expect to receive messages.	An array containing either "all", or any of: sun mon tue wed thu fri sat	[ "all" ]
enabled_notifications Pass an array of personal notification services to configure the check to send alerts via those services.	An array containing any of: email sms push pushbullet pushover	[]
enabled_integrations Pass an array of organization notification services to configure the check to send alerts via those services.	An array containing any of: slack	[]
notify_returned_to_success Checks with this flag will send an alert when they are restored to a success state by an incoming message.	Bool	true
notify_outside_window Checks with this flag set to false will only send alerts during the time window and active days configured above.	Bool	true
notify_consecutive_failures This parameter controls when CheckCentral will send alerts about failure messages.	One of: always first after_n every_nth	always
notify_consecutive_failures_limit If notify_consecutive_failures is set to either after_n or every_nth, this parameter configures how many consecutive failures will trigger alerts.	Integer	1
notify_failure_grace_period The number of minutes this check will wait to send alerts about failures. If the check is returned to successful status before this period elapses, any pending alerts will be cancelled.	Integer	0
default_status The default status for incoming messages that don't match against any of the conditions below.	One of: success warning failure	failure
success_conditions The rules that determine whether incoming messages will be set to success. See the definition of a ConditionGroup below.	ConditionGroup	{}
warning_conditions The rules that determine whether incoming messages will be set to warning. See the definition of a ConditionGroup below.	ConditionGroup	{}
failure_conditions The rules that determine whether incoming messages will be set to failure. See the definition of a ConditionGroup below.	ConditionGroup	{}

ConditionGroup

Parameter	Type/Allowed Values	Default
required_conditions This parameter controls whether incoming messages must meet any or all of the conditions defined below to be considered a match.	One of: all any	"all"
condense_whitespace If this flag is set, all of the conditions defined in this group will treat multiple whitespace characters as a single space.	Bool	false
conditions The list of conditions for this ConditionGroup to match messages against. See the definition of a Condition below.	Array[Condition]	[]

Condition

Parameter	Type/Allowed Values	Default
message_field Which part of the incoming message will be examined for this condition.	One of: subject body to cc attachments attachment_text from originally_to	subject
matches What matching rule this condition will use.	One of: contains not_contains exactly empty not_empty has_attachments has_no_attachments filename_contains filename_not_contains filename_exact text_contains text_not_contains complex_match complex_filename_match complex_text_match	contains
value The value to use with the above matching rule and message component.	String

We're very excited to announce that ClipboardFusion 5.5 is now available for download! We've fixed a few bugs, improved the way our servers talk to ClipboardFusion, and added a new Macro function for a listview box with filtering capabilities!

ClipboardFusion 5.5 Highlights

• Change: Push syncing improvements
• Change: New Macro function to open a listview window with filter (BFS.Dialog.GetUserInputListViewWithFilter)
• Fix: UI no longer hangs during a sync
• Fix: Settings restore now restores and binds the hotkeys correctly
• Fix: General fixes and improvements

Updating ClipboardFusion

We encourage everyone to update to the new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please view the ClipboardFusion Change Log. We would also like to thank all of the translators who have helped translate ClipboardFusion to their native languages.

ClipboardFusion Screenshots

CloudShow now supports uploading content from 3 new online sources: Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive! Using the all-new upload source selector you can choose where you upload your content from.

Your Computer

As before you can still upload content from your computer, and CloudShow now supports multiple file uploads at once. Just ctrl+click multiple files to select more than one and upload them at the same time.

Dropbox

If you store your files in Dropbox for work or personal use, CloudShow can access them now. You just need to authorize CloudShow to connect to your Dropbox account (as read-only) then just browse to the files you need.

Google Drive

If you use Google Drive to store your media files, CloudShow can now download them into your content section. Once you authorize CloudShow to connect to your Google Drive account (as read-only) your files are just a few clicks away.

Microsoft OneDrive

If you're a Microsoft OneDrive user, you're in luck! CloudShow can now pull content from your OneDrive account into your CloudShow content. Simply authorize CloudShow to access your OneDrive files (as read-only) and you're all set.

Start Uploading Today!

Uploading files to your CloudShow content area is now easier than ever. Check out the new upload providers today!

If you have websites that you're in charge of maintaining the SSL certificates for, you can monitor them for expiring certificates using this PowerShell script. The script can be run from anywhere, as it connects to the public URL for the website, and it will email the results wherever you like. You can set it up to email yourself, or you can configure it to email the results to CheckCentral so that you can automate the status parsing.

Setting Up the Check Schedule

1. On your CheckCentral dashboard, click the "New Check" link.
2. Give the Check a name. It can be whatever you like, for example "Website Certificate Expiry Check."
3. Choose an existing Check Group to add this check to, or create a new one if you like, by clicking "New Group."
4. For this guide, we'll assume that you're going to run the script every day. In order for CheckCentral to notify you when the Check is overdue (e.g. if the script didn't run as scheduled, or got hung up on its last run), you'll want to configure the "Emails are expected every" setting to "1 Day."
5. Notice that there's nowhere to assign the time of day that the email is expected. This is because CheckCentral will automatically adjust the expected time based on when the last email arrived. If your script runs at 9am and finishes at 9:01am today, then the next email will be expected at 9:01am tomorrow. In case the script runs slightly late one day, you can configure the Check to only notify you if the email is late by more than a certain amount of time. We'll leave it at the default of 30 minutes for this example, which means that you won't get an "Overdue" notification until 9:31am tomorrow. This allows an extra 30 minutes for the script to run before any action is taken.
6. The Description field is optional, but can be helpful for documentation purposes.

The Check Information Section

Configuring the Matching Rules

7. The "Matching Rules" section is where you'll tell CheckCentral which emails should be processed by this Check. By default, the Check's email address will be populated with a custom email address based on the Check name. For this example we'll change it to "demo+certexpirycheck@mycheckcentral.cc." You'll see where this gets used later in this guide.

The Matching Rules Section

Configuring the Status Rules

8. In the "Status" section, you'll set what you want the default status to be when an email matches the check, but doesn't match any of the Success/Warning/Failure rules. Generally it's best to leave this set to Failure, then specify your Success and Warning criteria. This way it's only marked as successful or warning if it matches your given rules, anything else is marked as a failure so that you get notified and can investigate further.
9. The "Success Rules" section is where you'll set the criteria that will mark the Activity as successful. Click the "Add Success Rule" link. A successful run (no certificates expiring soon) of the script will have the word "Success" in the email Subject, so we'll set the rule to "Subject contains Success"
10. The "Warning Rules" section is where you'll set the criteria that will mark the Activity as a warning. Click the "Add Warning Rule" link. The email notification for a the script will have the word "Warn" in the email Subject if one or more certificates are expiring soon, so well set the rule to "Subject contains Warn"

The Status Rules Section

Configuring Notifications

11. In the Notifications section, you can choose how to you want to be notified about changes to the status of this Check. In this example, enabling the checkbox for "Email" will send an email when the Check status changes, to everyone on the CheckCentral Organization > Users page that has Email notifications enabled. If there are consecutive Success emails, a notification won't be sent every time, only when the status changes from Success to Warning/Failure, and back.
12. Click the "Save Check" button to finish setting up this Check.

The Notifications Section

Setting Up the Script

13. Now that our Check is setup in CheckCentral, we'll need to setup the script on a machine that can run it every day. First, download the script: CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.zip, and extract it to somewhere on your computer. (e.g. C:\Scripts)
14. Go to the new folder (e.g. C:\Scripts\CheckWebsiteCertExpiry) and edit websites.txt with the list of websites you want to check. Make sure to put one URL on each line.
15. Open a PowerShell console and run the script to make sure it works. For example:

    .\CheckWebsiteCertExpiry.ps1 -Websites (Get-Content websites.txt) -EmailFromAddress <Email From Address> -EmailToAddress <Check Email Address from Step 7>

16. Now refresh the Check page for the Check you created and you should see the new Activity that was sent in by the script.
17. You're ready to setup the Windows Scheduled Task now, so that the script will run automatically every day. First, edit the parameters at the top of the "CreateScheduledTask.ps1" script and save the changes.
18. Open an administrative PowerShell console and run .\CreateScheduledTask.ps1.
19. If everything was successful, you should see the new Scheduled Task in the Windows Task Scheduler. Double-check that the schedule looks good, then run it and verify that a second Activity shows up in the CheckCentral Check.

As always, if you run into any trouble configuring your Checks, please feel free to contact us and we'll be glad to help out.

Congratulations to our top contributing members for January 2019! They have been hard at work submitting, rating, and discussing images on WallpaperFusion, and have racked up some impressive reputation scores along the way!

Contributors 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

JigsawMania 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Check out the current top members or look at previous months on our Top Members page!

We're very excited to announce the release of the all-new app selector in your CloudShow dashboard. When you're editing a device or template and selecting an app, the app selector gives you some new options.

All Apps

The most noticeable change is that all apps are grouped together alphabetically to make finding your app easier.

App Filtering

The advanced filtering in the app selector window means you can quickly filter down the apps to the ones you're looking for.

Recommended Apps

There is now a 'Recommended Apps' section at the top of the app selector window. This new section shows apps that support the files you have uploaded in your Content area. For example, if you upload some images and videos, the Image Slideshow and Video Player apps will be listed here for easy access.

Check it Out!

Check out the all-new app selector on your CloudShow dashboard today! And as always, if you would like to see an app that we're missing feel free to contact us.

We're very excited to announce that DisplayFusion 9.5 Beta 1 is now available for download! This version is mostly bug fixes for issues from 9.4.3.

Important Notes!

• The first time you open the Settings > Screen Saver tab after installing 9.5 Beta 1, it will be very slow to open, due to Windows Defender locking the .scr files for a long time during the initial scan.
• We've made a change to how refresh rates are set with Monitor Profiles. If you run into trouble with your profiles after updating, you may need to re-save them.
• WallpaperFusion is now limited to slideshow intervals of 15 minutes or higher to reduce costs.

DisplayFusion 9.5 Beta 1 Highlights

• Fixed a couple of Chrome issues with Monitor Splitting
• The "Mirror Selected Area" function now works correctly when run via key combination
• Updated Google Photos wallpaper source to the new API, as the old one is shutdown
• Added search support for WallpaperAbyss wallpaper source
• Fixed an issue with Image Info when using tag
• Fixed the filter box in the WallpaperFusion tag selector
• Using "Move Window to Next Monitor" on Remote Desktop windows now moves the connection bar as well
• Fixed an issue where some refresh rates couldn't be set, note that you may need to re-save your Monitor Profiles.
• Resolved an issue where Monitor Configuration wouldn't apply on some systems (including VMware with guest 3D acceleration disabled)

Updating DisplayFusion

We encourage everyone to update to this new version today to take advantage of these improvements. If you've already purchased DisplayFusion, it's a lifetime license, so you can upgrade to this version at no cost! If you would like to see a complete list of all the changes, please visit the DisplayFusion Beta Change Log.

We're pleased to announce several updates to CheckCentral, with improvements to Check schedules and dashboard interaction.

We have streamlined the frequency settings for checks, with options for simple and advanced scheduling. With advanced schedules, you can now specify both a daily time window to expect emails, and choose which days of the week emails will be sent.

As well, check filters on your dashboard can now be bookmarked, as the filter will be remembered when refreshing the page or sharing the URL. Also, filtering the checks on your CheckCentral dashboard will only display checks from uncollapsed groups, solving an issue that resulted in displaying all checks from a group when uncollapsing it with filters applied.

Additionally, the CheckCentral Data API can now return the recent history of a check's activity if requested.

If you have feedback or questions about these updates or any aspect of CheckCentral, please let us know!

Congratulations to our top contributing members for December 2018! They have been hard at work submitting, rating, and discussing images on WallpaperFusion, and have racked up some impressive reputation scores along the way!

Contributors 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

JigsawMania 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Check out the current top members or look at previous months on our Top Members page!