The world is in motion - play, skip, fast-forward and rewind. In the 21st century nothing antiquates a business faster than its conspicuous absence of motion - so speaks the digital democracy.

The modern business can no longer afford to simply be defined by the printed page. With the revolution of the Internet, new technologies and alternative streams of media, the world is now one of moving images, music and intelligent messaging.

Whether your company is based on product or service-something exciting or something dry, simple or complex-an experienced design team can create compelling and interesting visuals assets to better communicate your corporate relevance and stimulate your target audience to action. A stylish visual resource can function independently, or in conjunction with existing or new companion print and Internet campaigns to give your advertising a robust, multi-dimensional impact.

Beyond Photography

From cell phones to DVDs, motion pictures to music videos, the accelerated merging of previously divergent media formats is creating fantastic and heretofore unrealized cross-marketing opportunities, blurring the lines of obsolete marketing models and devaluing the power and longevity of the stand-alone media campaigns.

Studio design services can dramatically improve presentations, films, corporate or industrial videos, DVDs, or any other visual format.
 
From the subtle to the lavish, you can affordably enhance your work through a broad suite of software titles ranging from 2D/3D modeling & animation, special effects, living schematics to dazzling transition effects and much more. Don't tell customers the power of your company - show them!

Big Effects on Affordable Budgets

Dazzling visual effects were once only for the well-funded Hollywood producers with rooms full of expensive hardware. Now through software, such as Adobe After Effects, Alias Maya and NewTek LightWave, and hardware innovation, state-of-the-art video production services are now available to companies and groups of all sizes.

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DTCS offers a broad suite of visual services ranging from technical and creative illustration, photography, 2D / 3D animation, videography and special effects for all forms of media, including television and the Internet. From actors and actresses, voice over and narration talent, stock and custom photography, royalty free music and original scores, you can find everything you need at DTCS.

Contact Us today and see the power of a focused image in motion.
 
 
 
The days of the bloated advertising agency, with their innately-slow processes and exorbitant fees, are over. The Internet has changed the way that consumers and businesses interact with one another.

The traditional media models are being smashed and replaced with strategies that integrate multiple digital sources (web, pay-per-click, search engines, rich-media, email, wireless, news syndication, flash, interactive video) with established outlets (newspapers, magazines, radio, television, billboards, direct mail) and offer state-of-the-art metrics to gauge the effectiveness of each component.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Some time ago, a large meteor struck the earth and caused years of darkness that wiped out the dinosaurs. I think that many "Old-Guard" advertising agencies are going to look back and say that internet did the same thing - destroy their precious business model of overcharging and underperforming.

This is not to say that all agencies are inept. A large agency typically brings a strategic approach, compelling creative work, and a full complement of in-house promotion services. These can be an asset to your business, but without a pure digital advertising strategy, the campaign effectiveness will be exponentially lower.

 
Changing Demographics

The Census Bureau has recently reported that single-adult households have displaced two-parent families with children as the most common kind of U.S. household. Nuclear-family households, which are two married parents and a child, were the most common as recently as 1990, when there were 25 million such households. But by 2000, nuclear-family households fell to second place, both because there were almost a half-million fewer of these types of homes and because the number of single-adult households surged past 27 million. Married households without children remained the third most common, with 20 million in 1990 and 22 million in 2000.

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DTCS offers a complete suite of internet advertising services including pay-per-click management, search engine optimization, content management, keyword creation, keyword position tracking, rich-media ads, email newsletters, wireless web, news syndication, flash content creation and interactive video.

Contact Us today and put the power of the internet to work for your company.



Modern wireless networking products are inexpensive, simple to set up and very convenient. They are also full of holes... security holes, that is. Wireless networking is now firmly entrenched in the home computer market, and that means that the people buying the products cannot be assumed to have any form of expertise in IT. Ease of use and security tend to be mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately, the only way to make a complicated appliance like a wireless router fool proof is to use default settings that will not require the user to change a single settings on any of their other wireless hardware. By extension, this means that any wireless device can connect to said router using default settings.

Change the System ID

Devices come with a default system ID called the SSID (Service Set Identifier) or ESSID (Extended Service Set Identifier). It is easy for a hacker to find out what the default identifier is for each manufacturer of wireless equipment so you need to change this to something else. Use something unique- not your name or something easily guessed.

Disable Identifier Broadcasting

Announcing that you have a wireless connection to the world is an invitation for hackers. You already know you have one so you don’t need to broadcast it.
 
Check the manual for your hardware and figure out how to disable broadcasting.

Enable Encryption

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encrypt your data so that only the intended recipient is supposed to be able to read it. WEP has many holes and is easily cracked. 128-bit keys impact performance slightly without a significant increase in security so 40-bit (or 64-bit on some equipment) encryption is just as well. As with all security measures there are ways around it, but by using encryption you will keep the casual hackers out of your systems. If possible, you should use WPA encryption (most older equipment can be upgraded to be WPA compatible). WPA fixes the security flaws in WEP but it is still subject to DOS (denial-of-service) attacks.

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DTCS offers complete IT solutions for companies of all sizes. We can maintain your network, desktops, servers and technical assets, so that you can concentrate on your core business.

Contact Us today and let us help to master your technologies.


 

Edgar Pitts
Managing Director
edgar@dtcs.net
David Jetre
Creative Director
david@dtcs.net
Daniel Duncan
Technical Director
daniel@dtcs.net

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