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What’s on Your iPhone?

We all love out little friend the iPhone and iPod touch.  Why, because it makes our lives so much easier… sometimes! When Apple opened up third Party applications on the iPhone, our favorite personal communicator became even more powerful and useful in the entertainment industry.  Lighting applications started to show up quick and have been [...]

Ocean Optics Jaz Light Meter

While doing some research on the internet, we came across an interesting tool from Ocean Optics, the parent company for the SeaChanger color engine, called the Jaz Light Meter. What is neat about the Jaz that is that is a small light weight meter with a lot of features built in. Such as the ability [...]

Attn ETC: New Idea For an Ion Wing

We here at iSquint not only write about products and services for the entertainment lighting industry, we use them as well. We also listen to what people have to say about products and how they might become better with tweaks, add-ons or complete re-designs. We have been listening to people talk about some of the [...]

Third Party iPhone App – WholeHog3 iPhone Remote App

With iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s gain more and more popularity and the addition of third party apps over a year ago, our little friend has become more and more useful by the day because of software developers and just all around smart people with in our small community. Jon Griffin, a lighting design and owner [...]

Happy 8th Birthday iPod – Time to Celebrate!

As 1pm rolls around here on the Eastern Time Zone, we want to Wish the iPod a very Happy 8th Birthday. It was 8 years ago today, October 23, 2001 at 1pm est that the original iPod was announced to the world. Oh how time has gone by so quickly since you came out.  Back [...]

“Playing” With Moving Lights via a Wii Joystick

Most lighting consoles these days are big computers based on some for of operating system such as Windows Embedded and have the ability to add USB devices such as a mouse or track ball.  Users have the ability to control moving lights either by the attached mouse or track ball to control the pan and [...]

Dmx to Dip iPhone App

When it comes to DMX and dip switch calculators, the iPhone app market is over flowing. Well, we are adding another drop to the bucket in hopes that it the bucket doesn’t tip over. Back at the beginning of August, 40oz Apps, the developers of the BAC Monitor app, released another app to their line [...]

LEX Products Releases Slim Dimmers

A couple of months ago we mentioned that Lex Products was developing a in-line dimmer called the Slim Dimmer.  From the looks of Lex Products latest Press Release, they have gotten the Slim Dimmer UL listed, set for mass production and release to the public. The Slim Dimmer is an 1800 Watt, 95 – 130VAC [...]

Rose Brand Introduces SnowStar Snow Machine

The leaves are turning, the air is getting crisper.  That must mean that winter and snow are right around the corner.  Rose Brand has a jump on winter time with the introduction of their latest product, the SnowStar Snow Machine. The SnowStar Theatrical Snow Machine is a motorized, rotating, perforated aluminum tube that provides snow [...]

PLASA09: RSC LightLock

Looking ahead towards the PLASA Show next week at Earls Court in London England, We have a preview of what the Royal Shakespeare Company has been working on, the RSC LightLock. Imagine this, you need to hang a moving light in a place where there is no pipe or truss hung.  In comes the RSC [...]

TMB ProShell RJ45 BackShell

We were recently on the TMB website doing some research and came across a new product called the ProShell RJ45 BackShell as pictured above.  While this entire device just looks like another RJ45 connector, just beefed up, it is in fact not that!  The patented ProShell converts any conventional RJ45 connector into a robust and [...]

Cpoint Lighting XLR to RJ45 Adapters

Have you found DMX cable to be expensive? A good rule of thumb when it comes to purchasing DMX cable is that a foot of DMX cable with connectors can run about $2.50 to $3.00 a foot and up.  It all depends on what type of connector is used and the type of cable as [...]