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Fire & Ice
ETC Fixtures Product Manager Tom Littrell discusses the newest Selador Series fixtures: Vivid Fire and Vivid Ice have just released. In an environment where every LED offering touts its ability to make full-range color, you may ask yourself why we decided...
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Why additive color mixing matters
I guess that is a mighty 'heady' title for a blog post from a guy who has been silent on this Light Minds blog for months. Well... I am breaking my silence. Fact is, I have been busy, but now I feel motivated to write, and hopefully that will...
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Better support on etcconnect.com? You decide.
Have you noticed that we've made some support-related improvements to etcconnect.com over the holiday season? It's no secret that ETC prides itself on customer service, and online support is an area where we're always looking to improve. In...
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It takes a village to raise a website
I'm overdue to say "thank you" to some people. Specifically, "those people" being all the ETC staff, customers, end users that have ever stopped to say, "hey, this thing on your website isn't, or at least doesn't seem...
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john.kuehl
on 09-03-2009
Congo v6 Software now available!
A new software version – v6 – for Congo® and Congo jr consoles is now available! The v6 software contains a host of new features and changes to the internal structure of Congo, making it even more flexible for both traditional theatre...
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Wiki breakthrough…what we wanted in 1995
During my entire stint at ETC my good friend David North and I have always done a good bit of complaining about how we record and store information about our products. At first it was more about how to get info out of his BIG, semi-photographic, Electrical...
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mmeskill
on 08-27-2009
NY Times covers impact of state finances on college arts programs
Arts Programs in Academia Forced to Nip Here, Adjust There - New York Times, August 9, 2009 "There are no nationwide statistics to reveal whether one discipline is suffering more cuts than others. But administrators at more than a dozen state and...
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john.kuehl
on 08-10-2009
ETC's home again sits near top of "Best Places to Live" list
I've lived in and around Middleton all my life (that's about 30 years as of this week, if you're curious), so it's with some deal of interest to me when the town shows up on various "Best Places to Live" lists. My personal and...
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john.kuehl
on 07-17-2009
Buds appearing on long-imagined ETC Product Wiki
I've noticed that David Lincecum, Father of ETC's Online Community, hasn't been his just-on-the-sunny-side-of-giddy self this week. He's been even giddier. While it could be attributed to any number of things - say his recent business...
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john.kuehl
on 06-24-2009
Good Humor Man
Is it the 95-degree heat, or did I just see Fred riding a bike down the hallway? And was the bike rigged with a freezer full of ice cream bars and a string of bells? And, was he dressed like the Good Humor Man?
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Another Periodic Table!
With our Periodic Table of Element still top of mind around here, a link to this periodic table of video game controllers just lept out at me today on Twitter (via @Rands ).
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on 06-19-2009
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Congo v6 Previews at ABTT (London) and Showtech (Berlin) shows in June
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE So, what have the Congo team been up to since the release of v5 you may ask? Simple – we’ve been busy designing a new version of Congo software we hope will please you. This version – v6...
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A new approach, design for Controls on etcconnect.com
We recently made several notable changes to the section of our website dedicated to presenting our Controls products (both Entertainment and Architectural). I wanted to share some of the thought process and strategic planning that went into this project...
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on 06-08-2009
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A rejection letter from Apple . . . more iPhone app fun
Actually it was just a simple red dot followed by the word Rejected. The image below is a screenshot from our account on the app store. It seems that Apple does not allow any use of a charity as an enticement to buy an App. No references to charity website...
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on 06-04-2009
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Life in the fast lane of software . . .
Subtitle ---- What happens when you throw out all process and just do it A while back we decided that in order to be a cool company we needed an iPhone app. It was obvious what the app should do - remotely control our consoles of course. But how would...
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on 05-11-2009
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