Digital Pigeon Blog

Windows Desktop app (beta)

dan-washusen — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:10:28 +1100

We’re excited to announce that our Windows Desktop app has now entered beta and is available for download for those running Windows Vista, 7 and 8. The Windows desktop app adds the ability to transfer files up to 10GB in size (for our Team based plans), as well as pausing and resuming transfers, sending whole folders and a whole lot more.

You can download the Windows app from https://digitalpigeon.com/a/#/apps.

Please note that the Windows app doesn’t currently support Windows XP.

New download servers in Oceania and Europe

dan-washusen — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:10:00 +1100

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of two more download server locations in Australia and Ireland, adding to our existing servers in the USA. These new servers will give our customers in Oceania and Europe much faster access to their files, as well as a smoother experience when previewing media files.

Customers in Australia and New Zealand are advised to switch to our Oceania region and customers in Europe are advised to switch to our Europe region.

To make the switch head to https://digitalpigeon.com/a/#/settings/profile and update the ‘Region’ field under ‘Account Settings’ and the click the ‘Update Profile’ button.

New Feature: Receive files from your website

stuart-clayton — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:32:00 +1000

You can now receive files right from your own website with our new upload widget. This increases trust for your file senders as they no longer need to leave your website and don’t need to know who or what a Digital Pigeon is.

The upload form can be installed directly into any page or can open as a window on top of an existing page when your visitor clicks a link with just a few lines of HTML code.

If you’re on the ‘Professional’ or ‘Team’ plan you can find instructions on adding the widget to your site from your ‘Received’ page. For instructions, look for the ‘Setup your widget’ link towards the bottom right of the page.

Prehistoric Memes B.Z (Before Zuckerberg)

andyaasegal — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:50:59 +1000

I feel like such an old man. I’m about to begin a sentence with, “In my day.” So forgive me, because I’ve just aged 70 years. But… in my day, we didn’t have hoopty computers to make memes. We had to get out there with a graffiti can. Shake it up a whole heck of a lot, and then spray it over a billboard. And what was the font? My-damn-hand. Not some Arial, Impact, Hell-vetica.

Yessir. I remember, when I sprayed my first meme, vandalism it was called back then. And we didn’t have the Googles and whatnot to share our handiworks. No, I took Polaroids, that’s what we called a photographic image, and I mailed a copy to each of my friends. All five of them. A Polaroid was expensive you know. A week later, they all laughed.

Activity Tracking: Keep Track of Your Files

dan-washusen — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:05:00 +1000

You’ve got big files flying here, there and everywhere. You can now get an up-to-the-minute activity statement on your files.

Our new Activity Tracker gives you a comprehensive record of the recipients who have previewed or downloaded your files, together with the exact date and time.

This is great for production managers, business managers and teams who like to stay up on top of things.

The Pigeon Uprising

andyaasegal — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:36:36 +1000

What’s with this whole generation of cat loving cataholics inundating our humble interwebs with cat videos, catvertising and general catness. I personally think that the Kitlers, yes, the cats that look like Hitler, http://bit.ly/2Yx1Vgare are somehow behind this quest for cat domination.

So we’re going to combat the cat. Digital Pigeon is proud to present our favourite commercial creativity featuring birds. Let us know what you think.

Advertising Wars: Episode IV

andyaasegal — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:34:00 +1000

‘To make great creative, use the force.”

I’m no Jedi Master of Creativity. Nor am I a Sith Lord of Creativity for that matter. But it seems, that to make a great ad the only truthful insight you need is, “Star Wars is awesome.” And in the words of Yoda, one of few cultural references it is, generations it spans.

It’s why more and more companies are picking up light sabers and duelling to the death, or at least until one of them declares that they’re the other’s father.

So today, we’re going to give you our top ads featuring Star Wars references. I’d love to know what you think.

New Feature News: Audio Previewing

digipigeon — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:42:00 +1000

Listen without downloading

Sound production companies around the world are singing our praises. Now you can send big audio files and the recipients can listen without having to download the file.

So recipients can instantly listen to and approve your music, voice over, radio commercial, soundtrack, jingle without having to download, even from an iPhone.

Behind the scenes at our intro video shoot

stuart-clayton — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:59:59 +1000

Behind the scenes at our intro video shoot

Great ads for great products.

andrew-beck — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:20:02 +1000

Great ads for great products.

b3p: nom nom Oh Pac-Man… what a Monday you’re...

andrew-beck — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:41:44 +1000

b3p:

nom nom

Oh Pac-Man… what a Monday you’re having.

megawhitething: Patrick Runte Pac-Man Monday!

andrew-beck — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:36:08 +1000

megawhitething:

Patrick Runte

Pac-Man Monday!

it8bit: Custom Pac-Man Sunglasses Available for $39.84 USD at...

andrew-beck — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:16 +1000

it8bit:

Custom Pac-Man Sunglasses

Available for $39.84 USD at Ketchupize.

Pac-Man Monday!

New intro video

stuart-clayton — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:11:00 +1000

You may or may not have noticed that our homepage sports a new video to help introduce some of the many features found within Digital Pigeon.

Spoiler Alert: This is the first time Digi has been animated, and for the curious, I do all the Digi related graphics with 3D Studio Max (with V-Ray renderer) and for this video a little compositing with After Effects.

So that’s how my weekend was spent but, despite my insistance, we didn’t get to put a little motion capture suit on a pigeon.

New beta feature: previews

dan-washusen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:26:00 +1000

We’re excited to announce we’ve added media previews to Digital Pigeon. It’s a pretty awesome feature that allows you and your recipients to view images, video (and soon audio) files without having to download them.

If you’re working on a project and sending a lot of files back and forth, you don’t necessarily want to have them taking up room on your own hard drive, so this feature gives you the convenience of great online sharing services like Vimeo, Flickr and Soundcloud but all the content is delivered over our secure network with your branding, delivery notification and all the other features you love about Digital Pigeon.

Pretty cool.

We’ll be turning this feature on by default in the coming weeks but if you’re interested in helping us test it out you can enable by checking the ‘Display media previews to recipients’ checkbox under the options section on the send page.

— Dan

Mac desktop app v1.3

dan-washusen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:30:00 +1000

We’re pleased to announce the availability of version 1.3 of the Mac Desktop app. This release includes the ability to quickly view files you’ve attached to a message, much like Apple’s Finder.

The quick view feature makes it easier to keep track of which files you’ve attached to a message. For example, if you’ve attached a bunch of images (IMG_20012, IMG_20013, etc) and can’t remember which is which, just highlight the file you want to view, hit the space bar and a quick view of the file will appear. You can also double-click a file to open it…

If you’re already using the Desktop App you should get the update automatically, otherwise you can download it here: https://digitalpigeon.com/a/#/tools

If you have any feedback we’d love to hear it!

—Dan

Digital Pigeon allows you to keep all your recipient’s...

digipigeon — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:28:00 +1000

Digital Pigeon allows you to keep all your recipient’s email addresses up-to-date in your contacts, so not an ounce of total recall is required. But if you’re that way inclined: The Total Recall remake is nearly here.

Taking care of business

digipigeon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:06:00 +1100

Did you know that Elvis called his band ‘Taking Care of Business’? He’s pretty much the coolest guy ever…and something else that we think is pretty cool and that we’re super excited about is the addition of our new Digital Pigeon Business Plans.

It’s our new top-of-the-line plan specifically designed for creative organisations that need to have multiple users on the same account.

With full design customization capabilities, it allows multiple employees or users to share the consistency and professionalism of your company’s brand with the personal touch of the individual’s profile.

So if Mary from accounts registers your plan, it means all the files you send aren’t going to come from Mary, whom your clients may not know, nor have a relationship with. Not that we have anything against Mary. She’s lovely.

It also means that the upload and download notifications will go to the specific sender of the files and not a generic email address, so the individual can monitor the progress of their own files and stay on top of their specific projects.

Business plans start from as little as $30 per month. But you can check our the pricing options here: https://digitalpigeon.com/pricing

You’ll be sending files like a boss in no time.

Some additional facts:

Easily manage the users of your account
- Add extra users to your account with their email addresses, we’ll then send them an email with instructions on how to finish setting up their access
- Quickly remove users from your account
- Access and use can be controlled by an admin or the owner of the account, based on simple roles
  - Owner = access to everything (manage users, billing, customise appearance, etc)
  - Admin = access to everything except billing
  - User = ability to send and receive files
All users can view and access and share all sent and received files within an account or if you don’t want to see everything you can easily filter just your own files
Personalized delivery - the recipient knows the files are coming from you, if they respond to the email we send them the response goes to you and not some general email address
No need to share a single login and password, if a user leaves the company or if you have freelancers you can easily add and remove their access to your account
Share appearance and branding, upload/receive page, address book, etc

Digital Pigeon’s iPhone App - means we’re always...

digipigeon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:00 +1100

Digital Pigeon’s iPhone App - means we’re always tracking your file sends.
Check out how you can utilise these sweet features here:
http://bit.ly/digitalpigeon-itunes