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Article Archive for December 2009

Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) News for December 2009
12/29/2009 – 12:31 pm | Comments Off
Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) News for December 2009

 

D-Tools MVP manufacturers realize the importance of bringing you their product information and have chosen to support the D-Tools user community by joining the program and making their product data directly available through D-Tools SI …

Consider the Advantages of Atlantic’s 10e CSB Corner Subwoofer
12/29/2009 – 12:23 pm | Comments Off
Consider the Advantages of Atlantic’s 10e CSB Corner Subwoofer

© 2009, Steve Feinstein, Atlantic Technology
 Many times, installing an in-wall subwoofer is just not possible or practical. But you don’t want to use a big black box sub either. We have a great solution.
 Atlantic has …

Ribbon Speakers – Mainstream or Esoteric?
12/29/2009 – 12:21 pm | Comments Off
Ribbon Speakers – Mainstream or Esoteric?

© 2009, Mark Fielder, BG Radia
First conceptualized in the 1930’s, ribbon speakers have been around for many years.  But are ribbon speakers just for eccentric audiophiles or have they moved into the main stream?  To …

How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM – Part 2: Contacts
12/23/2009 – 3:48 pm | Comments Off
How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM – Part 2: Contacts

In part 1 of this series I went over How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM to send targeted mass emails to their leads. In part 2, I will go over …

How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM – Part 1: Leads
12/23/2009 – 10:06 am | One Comment
How D-Tools Uses the Mass Email Functionality in Zoho CRM – Part 1: Leads

In the selfless spirit of the holiday season, and the selfish spirit of knowing I write better for an audience, I offer my colleagues and readers another in depth, how to articles on how D-Tools …

Google SketchUp Tutorial
12/21/2009 – 2:15 pm | Comments Off
Google SketchUp Tutorial

What James Cameron did for the movies with Avatar D-Tools is going to do for system integration.  As much as I love a rack elevation or floorplan done up in Microsoft Visio it just …

D-Tools Adds Chrysalis Acoustics by Velodyne
12/21/2009 – 10:56 am | Comments Off
D-Tools Adds Chrysalis Acoustics by Velodyne

We are pleased to announce a new brand for the D-Tools family – Chrysalis Acoustics by Velodyne, the most prominent name in subwoofers.  Velodyne began building subwoofers in 1983.  Today, Velodyne holds more subwoofer patents …

D-Tools Publishes New Samples to Google® 3D Warehouse
12/10/2009 – 9:32 am | Comments Off
D-Tools Publishes New Samples to Google® 3D Warehouse

CONCORD, CA, DECEMBER 10, 2009 — D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, continues its support of Google Sketchup by today publishing new samples to Google 3D Warehouse. SketchUp users can download these …

New D-Tools SketchUp Component Library Release (AV Systems)
12/09/2009 – 5:51 pm | Comments Off
New D-Tools SketchUp Component Library Release (AV Systems)

D-Tools, Inc. has officially released new samples of our 3D Component Libraries for Google SketchUp. Sample models of our complete AV System Library are available via Google SketchUp’s 3D warehouse. The sample models are included in the …

Projects Won’t Open in the Text Interface
12/09/2009 – 2:17 pm | Comments Off
Projects Won’t Open in the Text Interface

Issue: You attempt to open an SI5.5 project in the Text interface and the interface does not open.  No error, just nothing happens…crickets.
Cause: This can occur on machines that are running both SI 4 and …

k2 Dealer Services Teams Up with D-Tools
12/08/2009 – 9:40 am | Comments Off
k2 Dealer Services Teams Up with D-Tools

CONCORD, CA, DECEMBER 08, 2009 — D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that system integration consulting firm k2 Dealer Services has joined D-Tools Certified Partner Program to provide training and …

Reporting an Error Message
12/03/2009 – 9:02 am | One Comment
Reporting an Error Message

The reality of using software is that you may encounter errors from time to time. The proper reporting of an error can significantly increase the turnaround time for a resolution. The intent of this article is to demonstrate how to effectively report errors to the D-Tools Support team, support@d-tools.com.