News

7 July 2009 – NADAstasjon is up and running

On Monday July the 6th, NADAs new net based ad receiver – NADAstasjon – was released. Current users are Indre Akershus Blad and Kristiansand Avis. They will now receive and work with their incoming NADA ads over the Internet, making their NADA work flexible and machine independent.

NADAstasjon is the first release of NADAs net based ad receiver concept. The software has been developed by GrafiConn Norge AS. Modulo AS will provide user support.

For newspapers that still receive their NADA ads over dedicated ISDN lines, the time has come for an early switch to NADAstasjon. NADA will contact these newspapers once the summer vacation is over.

7 July 2009 – Kristiansand Avis has started using NADA

Kristiansand Avis has been added to the NADA catalog of newspapers. Kristiansand Avis is a free newspaper with a circulation of 37.000, reaching all households in the city of Kristiansand in southern Norway. Kristiansand Avis has considerable advertising volume and looks forward to receiving ads distributed by NADA.

25 May 2009 – NADAcmyk: Usage today - and in the future?

NADA's net based color conversion service - NADAcmyk - has been up and running for five months. It seems to be a modest success. More than 1200 files have been converted so far.

Today's NADAcmyk is intended for conversion of PDF ads for newspapers. The conversion is controlled by NADA's ICC profile created for linear newspaper production. Nonetheless it seems that other kinds of PDFs are converted as well.

This seems to indicate a greater than expected need for net based color conversion in general. How about expanding NADAcmyk so that users to a greater extent and with better control could color convert PDFs for any number of purposes? There could be conversions for magazine ads, for entire newspaper pages for remote printing, for conversion using the new ISO profile, and so on. And a bit further along there could even be options for a set of operations on PDFs totally unrelated to color conversion.

No decision about further development has been made yet. NADA remains open to user input and welcomes feedback from NADA users and other interested parties with views and opinions in this matter.

22 December 2008 – NADAcmyk - a new service from NADA

NADAcmyk is a completely new service from NADA, aimed at users who want help with getting the colors right in PDF ads to Norwegian newspapers. NADAcmyk color converts PDF ads so that they are fit to be sent by NADAexpress. The color conversion is done according to the Norwegian standard linear ICC profile. Read more about NADAcmyk here. The service is free, and open to everybody.

22 December 2008 – NADA's site has been redesigned

The NADA website has got a new look as well as a new structure. Deeper nesting of pages combined with a better menu system makes for easier navigating. A larger proportion of the site than before has been translated into English.

22 December 2008 – NADAbox more useful

The NADAbox feature was introduced last summer, but becomes even more useful now that NADAcmyk is up and running. As long as one's NADAbox has been turned on, it may be used for saving files from NADAcmyk, thus elimitating an extra round of download and re-upload.

15 October 2008 – Few ISDN-based receivers left

It seems that not too far into the future, all NADA receivers will be based on FTP, with all the inherent advantages. The NADAexpress statistics for September 2008 show that currently there are no more than 10 ISDN-based receivers. These received 1,6% of the number of ads sent that month, and only 1,1% of the amount of data transmitted.

15 October 2008 – A new and better NADA Mac?

As a contribution to getting all NADA receivers onto the new and better NADA Annonsemottak 5 for Mac OS X, NADA Support/Modulo present a special offer for new Macs with NADA Annonsemottak version 5 and an FTP server preinstalled and configured. For many receivers a new 20 inch iMac with a 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor will be ideal. Low-volume receivers will be happy with a solution based around a Mac Mini. You will find this special offer here (in Norwegian only).

15 October 2008 – Increased use of NXWS

NADAexpress Web Services (NXWS) allows remote controlled ("automatic") sending of ads through NADAexpress. NXWS was introduced at a conference in January 2008, and the first actual NXWS sending of an ad to be printed happened in May. In September the NXWS usage increased somewhat. Currently there are two separate environments that routinely use the NXWS interface to send ads.