CONCORD, CA – SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 — D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that D-Tools System Integrator 5.5 has been named a 2010 Custom Retailer EXCITE Award recipient. Each year …
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We would like to welcome Kordz Director of US Operations, Michael Schaller to the D-Tools Newsletter Community! He will be contributing a series of articles, providing his insight about HDMI Cabling for D-Tools Newsletter subscribers.
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Cooling the (almost) impossible enclosure
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The installer will, more often than he would like, run into a home theater installation in …
Getting a leg up on the competition can be a challenging task. The best way to do it is to create a sound business plan, hire the right people to do the work, and follow …
As you may have noticed, D-Tools has recently released a new Beta Chat Feature. This feature is intended for individuals with Sales or Support questions and is now available via D-Tools website, blog and the …
With SI5.5, server moves are the easiest they have ever been!
STEP 1) The first step is to check in all Projects and log off all users from your current SI5.5 server.
STEP 2) The second step is to back …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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 …
This posting is to inform you of a slight variation in which the update to SP1 must be run on a Vista machine. Most of the instructions in this post apply but there is one …
Last week I wrote this post about the upcoming release of SI5.5. Since then I have been thinking about the process by which we have arrived at this release. While this release …
Membership in D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) Program enables direct access to Entertainment Experience’s TruVue VANGO™ and TruVue eeColor™ Processor product information
CONCORD, CA – AUGUST 31, 2010 — D-Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system …
One of the most powerful attributes of the D-Tools report designer is the ability to use parameters in your reports. These parameters give you the ability to make choices on how a report should …
Membership in D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) Program enables direct access to Entertainment Experience’s TruVue VANGO™ and TruVue eeColor™ Processor product information
CONCORD, CA – AUGUST 31, 2010 — D-Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system …
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 …
At the InfoComm show last week it was good to see something that had been missing from industry events for a while – optimism. Having been away from the industry for the better part of …
This month’s Residential Systems featured a story called ‘Extreme’ Design and it featured D-Tools Certified Partner, Ryan Brown of MED. Ryan partnered with Shawn Lemay, President of Sound & Theater of Williamsville, NY for the …
It is fairly easy to create customized Visio shapes based on the SI5 library of shapes that will represent products whose width is half-rack, or 9.5 inches, that snap-to the rack shapes. By default, …
This post will show how to change the graphics on an SI5.5 Proposal. Although the software ships with a stock report named “Proposal w/Graphics”, I will be modifying one of the additional reports that you …
