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New iOS App: Truck Loader

There is a new and different type of entertainment industry iOS app out there, the Truck Loader app.  If you have ever worked a dock for a touring show, you know that packing a truck is an art form all it’s own.  A correctly packed truck not only ensures that the equipment doesn’t roll around and break, but also can require less trucks on the road.

Truck Loader is a powerful app used for keeping all of your live event gear organized on the truck every night. Anyone who loads hundreds of cases every night knows how frustrating it can be when cases come into the truck in the wrong order. Truck Loader eliminates that problem. Right there in your pocket, your truck pack is ready whenever you need it at a moment’s notice.

Trucks are organized alphabetically and Road Cases are organized by Row number. Tap on the truck name, and there they are: all your Road Cases listed in order by Row and Layer. You can edit the names of the trucks and Road Cases to your liking and then edit the Row and Layer by numbers or letters or combination of numbers and letters for each case. So when load-out comes your cases will end up in the same place each and every night, right where they belong.

The Truck Loader app is a 99 cent app available from the iTunes App Store.  You can learn more about the app by visiting the developers website at www.redtrusssoftware.com.

New iOS App: e-CASE

Have you ever been out on the road or out on a gig where you had the sudden urge to design and configure a road case?  It is such a hassle to pull out the laptop, find a wifi spot and do some searching. European case manufacture 5 Star Cases knows just how you feel!

5 Star Cases just announced the release of their FREE iOS app e-CASE.

With e-CASE, the user can browse, configure and select a number of Case Types from 5 Star’s wide range of products. The app includes descriptive information as well as technical drawings and images on all the different product genres, assisting the prospective buyer in selecting the right case for the application.

To learn more about the app or to download it for free, visit the iTunes App Store.

New iOS App: FreeStyler DMX Remote App

At the beginning of February, I mentioned a new iOS app that was on its way to the iTunes App Store.  That day came during USITT, FreeStyler DMX Remote App hit the store.

The FreeStyler DMX Remote app is a companion app to the Windows based software, FreeStyler. FreeStyler for Windows is a FREE lighting control that allows for controlling you guessed it, DMX devices.

The FreeStyler DMX Remote App is a 99 cent app through the iTunes store.  It allows control of the Windows software over wireless networking.  The app allows for control of blackouts, favorites, freeze, groups, sequences, color picking, device manipulation and general controls.

Head over to the iTunes App Store to learn more and pick up a copy of the FreeStyler DMX Remote app.  You can learn more about the app by visiting www.freestylerdmx.be.

New iOS App: Barbizon Electrician’s Handbook

If you have been to a tradeshow or Barbizon event in the past four years, you most likely have picked up some version of the Barbizon Electrician’s Handbook. I still have ALL of mine starting with version 1!

The Electrician’s Handbook is a hand reference tool for all sorts of things that we need in our jobs. From standard electrical calculations, to socket types, lamp bases and even the perfect beer temperature!

Barbizon has teamed up with Useful Development, the developers that brought us the USITT iOS app, to bring the Electrician’s Handbook into our favorite little devices that run iOS.

Features of the app:

  • Handbook Indexed Navigation!
  • References for Electrical Terms, Wire and Cable, Lighting Fixtures, Lamps, Color, Patterns, Pipe, Knots, and More…
  • Page to Page Navigation!
  • Pinch/Zoom of Handbook pages
  • Interactive Contacts for All Barbizon Office locations, worldwide!
  • Barbizon Torch!

To get the new Barbizon app, head over to the iTunes app Store and pick up your FREE copy of the app.

New iOS App: Electrical Formulas

Andrew Derrington, the app developer that brought us the Lighting Handbook App just released his latest iOS app into the iTunes App Store, Electrical Formulas.

The Electrical Formulas App allows users to quickly and easily convert power formulas with out the need to remember all those tricky numbers. The app includes a Volt drop calculator for both mm2 and AWG cables (Single and 3 Phase). There is also a power equation calculator, Select your voltage, then enter either amps or watts to calculate the loading.

Common Calculations the app provides

  • kVA to Amps – Single and 3 Phase
  • Amps to kVA – Single and 3 Phase
  • kVA to kW
  • kW to kVA

The Electrical Formulas App will also be available to current Lighting Handbook users in the next couple of weeks as an in app purchase at a lower price of just: £1.19, $1.99, €1.59. Along with the update to Lighting Handbook App, there will be more fixtures added including the number one request more Chauvet fixtures. If you have additional fixture request to add to the Lighting Handbook App, email Andrew at Lightinghandbook@aderrington.co.uk.

You can learn more about the Electrical Formulas and Lighting Handbook App by visiting Andrew’s website www.aderrington.co.uk. You can purchase Electrical Formulas App from the iTunes App Store for $1.99 USD.  To help celebrate the arrival of the new app, Andrew was kind enough to prove three codes for the app to give out here on iSquint. All you have to do is email me, info@isquint.net.  The first three emails in get a code. Thanks Andrew and keep up the great work!

Contest Time: Win a Copy of Lightwright Touch for Your iPad

You read the headline right!  I am loving my copy of Lightwright Touch so much that I want to share it with one lucky reader of iSquint! If you had not heard, West Side Systems announced the release of their latest iPad app, Lightwright Touch into the iTunes App Store yesterday.

Basically, you have Lightwright on your iPad!  The entire industry has been dreaming about this ever since the iPad was announced.  Our prays, hopes and dreams have been answered!

You can learn more about Lightwright Touch by visiting West Side System’s website at www.westsidesystems.com. You can purchase your copy of Lightwright Touch by visiting the iTunes App Store for $49.99 USD.

The rules are simple.

  • You must be a US resident, due to iTunes limitations, sorry international readers.
  • Helps to have an iPad
  • A Love of lighting
  • Only one entry per person
  • Leave a comment on this Article
    • You must include a valid email address and your full name – This information will NOT be shared
    • Leave a comment with which Article on iSquint is your favorite and why.

Pretty simple right? The contest is open to everyone, student, professional, lover of light… EVERYONE! And yes, if you have written for iSquint, you are eligible, sorry guys! The contest will close at midnight tonight, February 25th, 2011 EST. A winner will be randomly selected from the comments.  I will announce the winner of the contest first thing Saturday morning. Good luck everyone!

iOS App: Event Rigging Helper

Do you handle equipment over peoples heads? It can be a tough and exhausting job.  You have a lot information in your head that you need to put together to make sure that rig is safe and secure.

Doing a bit of searching yesterday, I ran across another industry iOS app, Event Rigging Helper.  Plug in some information and it help calculate jumps, bridles, lengths and more.  The app also can keep track of your projects, a library of truss manufacturers, hoist, winches and other assorted equipment a rigger might need info on.

Features include:
•Bridle Length calculator (imperial, metric, ratio)
•Leg tension calculator
•Multiple Project data- notate per show, venue, elements, trim, purpose, point location
•Track show weight: totals per point, per element, per show
•Export data
•Record keeping
•Weight database of typical production elements
•Library of manufacturer’s product spec’s in the likes of truss and motors, shackle, cable, power distribution…
•Rigging education and seminar info…
•Industrial Rope Access info
•Venue data contribution and exchange
•Facebook page for community, discussion and dialog

The Event Rigging Helper App does not come cheap in comparison for most iOS apps. The app cost $19.99 USD through the iTunes App Store.  I am not saying that the app is over priced. What I am saying is if you fell that paying $19.99 for an app that help you save time and money on the job… Then it just might be worth the investment.

REMEMBER: Purchasing and or using this app does NOT make you a rigger. Rigging should be performed under the supervision of experienced and certified professionals.

ETC Releases New iOS App – Selador Toolkit

Seems like ETC is pumping out iOS apps left and right lately.  Earlier this week they released their ETC Rigging App and just yesterday their latest app, the Selador Toolkit.

The Selador Toolkit application – with features for both beginners and professionals – allows designers to mix their favorite colors and determine which models to use. The app also includes calculators to help stage electricians set DMX addresses for a series of Selador fixtures and gauge power usage. Data sheets, manuals, and application guides are provided to help accomplish the best overall results.

The Selador Toolkit app is FREE from the iTunes App Store and is a universal app, meaning that the same app works both on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.  Head over to the iTunes App Store and pick up your FREE copy of the ETC Selador Toolkit App.

ETC Releases New iPad App – ETC Rigging

The ETC Rigging app is an interactive tool for demonstrating the unique aspects of ETC’s line of rigging products. Users can experience the benefits of the compact Prodigy™ hoist system, or find out how the ETC’s compression tube system can save money when planning new construction or renovating an existing venue. The app demonstrates how ETC’s cable management system tucks neatly away and how the user-friendly QuickTouch™ control system works. More information about ETC’s rigging line can be found at www.etcrigging.com.

You can download the FREE app from the iTunes App Store.

New iOS App – Not Dip Switch Calc, But Binary Calculator

I have to start this one off with what the developer wrote on the apps description page, it says it all.

Nothing special but simple and easy to handle.

Did you catch that?  Nothing Special, love it.  Now is the developer just being modest or truthful, you decided.  There really is nothing special about this app. It is just like all of the other Dip Switch apps out there.  The main difference is that it is giving you the “binary” number.

Guess what, that is what we are doing when we address a fixture or device. ;) Funny how that all works out. With the Binary App you can enter a number and it will show you which position the dip switches need to be in, or the reverse, set the dip switches and it will tell you the DMX Binary number.

You can learn more about the Binary Calculator app and purchase it through the iTunes App Store for just $.99 USD.

Hold the Phone, ANOTHER Dip Switch App – Clair DMX Lite

I am having a case of déjà vu here.  It seems like I just wrote about this same tyoe of program very recently… :/  While I could go off on a real tangent here and talk about how the iTunes App Store is over run by DMX Dip Switch Apps… I won’t.  Just think of all of the different apps as choices.

The Clair DMX Lite App is yet another DMX Dip Switch App.  What sets this app different from the rest of the dip switch apps out there… not to much. The only real difference is the About Clair button on the bottom of the app.  From there you can learn more about SLPro Trading’s LED and moving light products.

From the brief research that I have found, SLPro Trading is manufacturer and or distributor in Singapore.  While the app may offer a bit on the fixtures, the only website I could find even remotely related to this company is 1980 with little or no information.

As for the Clair DMX Lite app, you can pick it up for FREE in the iTunes App Store.  Think of it as another app to add to the almost full DXM dip switch folder on you iOS device.

Another DMX Dip Switch App Shows up in iTunes – DMX Dip (FREE)

Just when you thought that the DMX Dip Switch market place was saturated enough on the iTunes App Store, another one shows up. Now the good news is, the DMX Dip app is a FREE download from the app store.

DMX Dip is exactly as it sounds, it calculates the DMX address on fixtures that use dip switches for addressing.  The reverse operation is also possible, just use the dip switches in the app like you would use real-life switches, and DMX Dip tells you exactly for which address the fixture is configured.

The app also offers an off-set function for addressing multiple fixtures. You can pick up the DMX Dip app for FREE from the iTunes App Store.  The app is universal and works nativity on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

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