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www.acousticexpo.com 27th & 28th September The UK’s very first truly national show dedicated purely to all acoustic fretted instruments and the musical genres they create.
Hosted within the world famous walls of London’s premier exhibition and musical entertainment centre, The London Barbican, Acoustic Expo promises to be a 2 day extravaganza of all that is brightest and best about acoustic guitars and the modern technology now associated with their use.
In addition, Acoustic Expo will be a veritable celebration of music and artist performance with each day benefiting from a full program of live performance, seminars and workshops.
If you love music, the instruments that create it and would enjoy meeting the people that make it all happen – then you’ll love Acoustic Expo. We look forward to welcoming you to this most special show.
Dear All Huge apologies for delays in mailing on this issue. Unfortunately we have had lots of problems with our mailing house recently, who prioritize magazines with half a million to post out and bounce our specialist title on. Despite our shouting, this issue has gone out late and we are hugely sorry to all subscribers. Throughout 2008 our schedules have been adjusted to ensure all subscribers get their magazine at least one week prior to the shops, and we have yesterday agreed a new contract with a new mailing house dedicated to caring for smaller specialist titles. Please accept our apologies once again and our assurances that we are doing everything in our power to ensure this doesn't happen again. Our subscribers are very important to us and we do listen! Best Regards Acoustic Team
List of what has been upgraded and add to AcousticLife Video Module
* Support for users to upload videos direct from their computer or from sites like YouTube, MySpace, Google etc...
* Video conversion routine also creates a thumbnail image on the fly.
* Option to either allow videos direct on your site.
* "Latest Videos" box.
* Displayed in the main index page of the video module displays the Featured, Most Viewed, Most Discussed and Top Favorite videos.
* Feature videos
* Videos to a users "Favorite" list.
* Option to share videos with other users on the site.
* Option to report videos to the site staff.
* Option for the staff to view all reported videos.
* Users can tag videos
* When a user submits a comment or would like to view comments on for example the 2nd or 3rd page they won't have to refresh the entire page and load the Flash video player once again.
* Rating feature for videos.
* "Related" videos box is displayed when viewing a video.
* "Users Video" box is displayed when viewing a video or viewing a users profile.
* Search bar found on all areas of the video module.
* Option for staff to edit video categories.
* HTML Character Set support
Music Module
* Users can create albums and upload MP3s to their albums.
* Genres
* Albums Pictures
* Album Year
* Enhanced Flash Player to play audio files
* Users can listen to tunes direct from the Music module and can either listen to a specific song or album
* Powerful search tool which can find a musician, album or song.
* Admins can feature a song or musician which will show up on the index page of the Music module
* Music module index page displays the latest songs uploaded, featured musicians, featured songs, genres, recent visitors and a search form.
* Members can add a song or an album to their favorites list
* Members can comment on all songs and albums
* If a user uploads a set of songs they will all show up on their profile page
* Users can add another users song to their profile direct from the video module
Blog Module
Tags
Tag clouds are now provided for blogs, images and videos being added to your site.
RSS
* Main RSS feed link found at the bottom menu
* RSS feed supports blogs, users blogs, events, forums and forum threads
* Each blog comes with a RSS image which links a user direct to the users blog feed
Instant Messenger
Enhanced Instant Messenger provides a easy way for your members to communicate with each another.
Features include:
* AJAX Powered
* Personal status: Online, Away, Busy or Be Right Back
* AJAX powered friends search which finds any friends online
* Sound alert if a user gets a new request or new instant message.
* Users can decide to turn of the sound alert by clicking on the "Settings" link found in the index of the Instant Messenger.
* When a user enters a room it will announce it in the IM room.
* When a user leaves the IM room it will announce it to the other user
* If a user closes their main Instant Messenger window it will also close any other windows related to the IM.
Chat & Shoutbox Modules
Enhanced Chat & Shoutbox provides a easy way for your members to communicate with each other.
Chat Features include:
* AJAX Powered
* Multiple rooms
* WYSIWYG text editor with emoticons
* Flood control
* Bad word filter
* List of who is online chatting
* Only displays chat messages from the present day.
Shoutbox features include:
* AJAX Powered
* Shoutbox located in the index page of your site and in the index page for each group.
* Bad word filter
Social Bookmarking
The Social Bookmarking module connects to a few other modules on your site. The default social bookmarking sites we added are Digg, Del.icio.us, Facebook, Furl, Magnolia, StumbleUpon, Google and Yahoo MyWeb. When you view a gallery image, blog, forum thread, music album or an event you will notice a table with the provided social bookmarking sites. This feature also updates the “BOOKMARK US” link found on the top right of your site. It will now say “BOOKMARK” and if clicked, a drop down of the provided social bookmarking sites will appear. First on the list will be “Favorites” and this is if they want to bookmark your site with their web browser. This will allow users to bookmark any page on your site.
Hi Everyone
All is complete now and running smoothly.
If anyone stumbles upon any errors, please let me know asap so I can fix it straight away.
Hope you all enjoy the new features.
Have a great weekend
All the best
Andy 
AcousticLife Webmaster
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