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Lighting Handbook App Now Available on Android Market

Andrew Derrington, the app developer of the popular Lighting Handbook app recently announced that the app has been translated to the Android platform. In this first release it has all the core features that the iOS version has, and in time will gain more features such as Searching, Submit a fixture, Lighting Calculator & Electrical [...]

Andrew Derrington Introduces New iOS App; Lighting Calculator

iOS App developer Andrew Derrington is at it again.  He has been hard at work on his third lighting app for the iOS platform, Lighting Calculator. Some of his other iOS apps include the Lighting Handbook and the Electrical Formulas app. I know what you are thinking, these apps seem to be the same thing [...]

Review: Scenex Lighting Ignition LED Base 4 Truss Toner

Scenex Lighting would like to introduce the Ignition LED Base 4.  The Base 4 is a strong contender for the ultimate truss up lighter.  Designed to fit exactly inside a 12 x 12 inch stick of box truss, the Base 4 features a square array of LED’s.  This places the 10 degree RGB LED’s in [...]

Seen at #USITT: plotLight, Online Paperwork Management Software

Something new that shown at USITT 2011 in Charlotte was plotLight.  At it’s simplest form, plotLight is an online paperwork management softwork tool for the lighting professional.  At plotLight’s core is the plotLight BRAIN, a complex machine-learning application that combines data-mining with advanced Bayesian logic. Each plotLight project combines plotLight BRAIN components with your project’s [...]

Apollo Design Offers Gel Converter for Mobile Devices

Apollo Design has had a great tool available on their website for converting Rosco, GAM and Lee gel colors to Apollo gel colors.  You can find the original Apollo gel converter on Apollo’s website under support. To help those designers and techs on the road, Apollo Design has launched a version of the Gel Converter [...]

Review: iPad App: Notability

As a student of the school of all things Apple, there is a distinct advantage to being able to carry my iPad around without a laptop and other tools that we used to use for learning and note taking.  With the app store, when you run into a problem, you find a digital tool to [...]

New From Setwear – Safety Glasses

Setwear just announced the arrival of their latest product, the Safety Glasses. I have to hand it to Setwear.  They are out to protect us.  First our hands for almost any application to tool belts and now protection for our eyes. kudos Setwear! More about the Setwear Safety Glasses: Lightweight and flexible polycarbonate frame construction [...]

Review: iPad App: sling Note

Its a web browser. No, its a note pad. Wait, its a calculator. Maybe its a scrapbook. Better yet, its all of the above. sling Note is an app for iPad that gives you a browser window or calculator side by side with a notepad/scrapbook. The usefulness of this app is apparent for anyone who [...]

Review: Field Templates RULES! English Metric & Striplight Placemat Templates

People say that the old world charms are losing out to technology in this day and age of computers and the internet. It is faster and easy these days to shoot off a quick email, text or tweet to a person to say thank you or convey a message. What use to be the standard [...]

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner – Jason Lynch, Focus Fail

Last week I announced a contest for the brand new Flat Ultimate Focus Tool from StageJunk.com.  I put a call out for photos of why you NEED the FUFT and the tool that you would be replacing the FUFT with.  Out of all the entries which were just as hilarious and awesome, Jason Lynch from [...]

Contest Time: Win a Flat Ultimate Focus Tool

Rob Junk from Stagejunk.com is an awesome guy.  Not only does he make some damn fine tools, but he just so nice and friendly.  So nice in fact that he gave me two of his brand new tool, the Flat Ultimate Focus Tool to give away.   Yes, he gave me two, but I am [...]

#LDI2010: StageJunk.com Releases Flat Ultimate Focus Tool

Rob Junk from StageJunk.com is at it again.  First it was the Ultimate Focus Tool, then the Ratcheting Ultimate Focus Tool and now, the Flat Ultimate Focus Tool!  How many different designs of a tool can Rob come up with?!?  I though he had it right at the original Ultimate Focus Tool! Again and again [...]