Xabler and Guifx, both providers of home technology products, announced today that they have formed a Strategic Alliance and announced their intention to work together in creating and delivering professionally designed touchscreen templates for home control and automation systems.

“For the first time, Guifx will convert all of its GUIs to the Xabler format and offer them to dealers as part of their GuiVAULT™ collection,” said Kent Gividen, Xabler CTO. The complete touchpanel design solution will include graphics, fonts, and other design elements, all pre-imported and arranged in the Xabler format.

Xabler provides a hardware and software solution through the installation of a secure home network.  The system can control lighting, distributed audio, RS232 devices, audio/video systems and more.  As an option, Xabler offers a streaming video, Xabler Digital Music Server (DMS), and wireless equipment all in one turnkey solution.  Through Xabler, all home systems can be controlled through the Internet, wireless touch screen or PDA.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to work Xabler. This partnership will help promote the expansion and evolution of our GuiVAULT™ collection,” states Morgan Strauss of Guifx.

Superheroes aren’t the only ones with x-ray vision.

GuiVAULT is a collection of templates containing professionally designed layouts and graphics for Crestron and AMX touchpanel control systems. Guifx will be demonstrating several new designs at CEDIA EXPO 2003 in Indianapolis September 5-7. New designs to be demonstrated include:

SDS ECMS - Superheroes aren’t the only ones with x-ray vision. Guifx is proud to introduce the first ever “see through” Crestron template that can be instantly customized simply by changing the background image. The template is also available for AMX.

Antique Journal - A circa 1930’s journal, sitting upon a desktop. Some currency and a flower lay next to it aside a stained coffee ring. Open the journal up to its table of contents and its purpose becomes clear. It’s a control system interface. It’s an experience. It’s an adventure.

Ocean Reef - An underwater sea adventure is just a touch away. The Ocean Reef template raises the bar for graphic design, intuitive navigation and ease of use.

LCD Blue - This template is based on the familiarity of real world interfaces. The design concept is perfect for installations where ease of use is the highest priority. The sleek, modern design is also the perfect match for any contemporary home.

Guifx is proud to announce the release of several new templates compatible with AMX TPDesign4 and TPDesign3.

The GuiVAULT touchpanel template library consists of predesigned templates containing all of the graphics and fonts you need to develop touchpanels quickly. By using the GuiFX predesigned template files you’ll be creating stunning touchpanels for your clients in no time.

Guifx is proud to announce the release of their new GuiBrowser Pro software.  GuiBrowser is a template management system that lets you organize your Crestron and AMX project files quickly and easily.

GuiBrowser Pro also includes an exclusive Environment Color Match System. With ECMS you can load a background photo of the room in which your touchpanel will be located. Then by simply choosing colors from the photo with the eyedropper tool, ECMS will choose a palette of complimentary colors to use in your project.

GuiBrowser Pro can also directly export backgrounds for special ECMS compatible GuiVAULT templates making it possible to color match a pre-designed template in a matter of minutes.

GuiBrowser Lite contains all the professional features of GuiBrowser Pro except for ECMS Color Matching and is available as a free download from www.guifx.com.

Free custom fonts, network logos, organizer software and more for AMX and Crestron touchpanel design.

Guifx is pleased to announce the release of free touchpanel design tools available exclusively from GuiFX.com.

Free downloads include the GuiBrowser Lite software, which helps to organize Crestron and AMX templates as well as view them in front of an imported background image.

Also available for download are a collection of fonts that complement any touchpanel design. These fonts have been optimized for most touchpanel displays and include special symbol sets that may be used as source icons and transports.

Guifx is also offering a complete set of DirecTV network logos for use as favorites in your touchpanel projects. These BMP graphics are compatible with every GuiVAULT template for either Crestron or AMX.