A customer requested a motorized window shade shape this week, specifically a Lutron Sivoia Shade.  After taking a close look at the specifications I saw that it was not that much different than our current …

I was thinking about better ways to draw and manage equipment rack shapes in Visio for Six.  Equipment racks and their components are interesting objects to create in Visio because there are probably over 50,000 …

Family issues kept me from CEDIA this year but I heard that one of the most anticipated features of SIX was the use of real pictures (RealPic) to represent actual electronic components when using Visio …

I think it is pretty safe to say that social media is not a fad and is here to stay. At D-Tools we have always had a social media presence but it was getting …

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So if you read my last post you know I am on an automation kick here at D-Tools. Just trying to make everyone’s job a little bit easier. In that post I …

I was planning on writing this business process automation post last year but my wife got really-really sick, really-really quick and I have been out of the office for the past eight months taking care …

We are going to start shipping Visio 2010 with all NEW purchases of versions of SI5.5  soon and as the resident Visio geek I thought our customers and readers would appreciate a heads up on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I just received the email below from Steve Collard, the D-Tools CFO/COO regarding the phased roll-out plans of SI 5.5.  This is only interesting because we already rolled out 5.5 earlier in the month and …

I came across this news article and video called Mothers Voice May be Best Fire Alarm last year.  The video and article explain how kids do not respond to the standard beeping/wailing fire alarms but …