Section: iPhone

FocusTrack’s New ‘Paperwork to Go’ Functionality

Paperwork is increasingly not ‘paperwork’ but virtual paperwork carried on laptops – until actually working in the theatre when real paper printouts have often been the most convenient way to access show information while walking around the stage focusing the rig. Now FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, offers Paperwork To Go – keep your [...]

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#LDI2010: Phone It In Session – I’m on the Panel, SO BE THERE

One of the many benefits of LDI are some of the great sessions that are offered.  One of them I just happen to be on the panel, the Phone it In Session.  It falls under the LDI Innovation & Technology Conference, Lighting Summit II Track.  While I would love to say that the sessions are [...]

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iGlo LED Set

First there was rope light. Its incandescent glow adorned many a stage as running lights (and dorm rooms). Over time it would lose its intensity and saturation and you would find sections dead for no reason. Then came the LED rope light. It was beautiful. The colors so crisp, the intensity popped. But unless you were [...]

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Interactive Technologies Announces Figment DMX for iOS & CueServer Express

I have always had a fascination for Interactive Technologies products, especially their CueServer.  Rather then developing a traditional lighting desk, they built a rack “desk” that you access via http or web page. While the CueServer “desk” is not marketed as a live playback desk, but as an architectural and themed environment control. How cool [...]

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Compulite Announces Compulite iControl iOS App

Just the other day, Compulite announced the release of their latest software update to their Vector series line of control desk, version 3.18R01.  Following right on the heels of that release comes the announcement of their iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app, iControl. Compulite’s new iControl App for the Apple iPhone and iPod is a [...]

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Alcorn McBride Prepares to Announce Four New Products at IAAPA Show

Alcorn McBride has announced the introduction of four innovative products for the themed entertainment industry. New items include two iPad apps for lighting and show control and two audio playback systems. All four will be shown in booth 465 at the upcoming IAAPA show in Orlando. New iPad Apps — Touch, a user-friendly drag and [...]

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Fixture Tester App for iOS Devices Available in iTunes App Store

iOS app developer Bart van Stiphout has been a busy cat lately!  First he releases the FocusRemote app and now the Fixture Tester App.  The Fixture Tester iPhone OS is an application to test all the fixtures on the network in 4 steps: 1 Patch – Make a patch (or import a patch from ELC’s [...]

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New iPhone/iPad App – FocusRemote Art-Net Contoller

A new lighting app has hit the iTunes App Store, FocusRemote.  Developed by Bart van Stiphout, the FocusRemote app is designed to do exactly as the name of the app says, focus lights remotely from our iOS devices. FocusRemote uses the WiFi connection of your iOS device to connect to a wireless access point connected [...]

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ETC Releases iRFR Preview iPhone/iPad App

Check it out, ETC has a NEW iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app, the iRFR Preview App!  The Preview iRFR application for the Eos family of products – Eos, Ion and Element – provides a view-only Cue List display of the active cue list. Ideal for lighting designers and stage managers who need to only see current and [...]

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#LDI2010: Don’t Have An iPhone – LDIMobile Still Has You Covered

All of us iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch owners should feel a little special.  Live Design and LDI created the LDIMobie app.  The app is designed to help navigate us through the show and keep track of our schedule.  But what about our friends that don’t have an iOS device? Live Design and LDI have you Android, Palm [...]

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AutoCAD WS for the iPhone and iPad

First AutoCAD announces that they will be releasing a Mac version of their CAD program and now on the iPhone and iPad?! Is the Kindle up next?  Just Kidding! AutoCAD® WS mobile app enables you to view and work with AutoCAD drawings directly on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Using the touch and gesture [...]

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#LDI2010: Live Design Releases LDI Show App for iPhone

If you have been to a trade show in the past year, you may have seen that event organizers are developing apps for our portable devices to guide us through the trade show. I applaud trade show organizers for developing and producing these types of apps.  In the old days, pre-iPhones and smart portable devices, [...]

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