Show Timer is a stopwatch, timer and logging application for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It improves on the built in Stopwatch in a couple of interesting ways.
It offers the option of counting down to a specific time and will show you how long is remaining until then. So if you have an event due [...]
Show Timer review
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Leave a Comment
PowerSaver review
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Leave a Comment
Need an app to calculate the cost of your power usage? PowerSaver from West Side System might just be the thing you need. PowerSaver will calculate the cost and savings associated with reducing the wattage of your lamps as well as how much you could save if people would only turn the lights off when [...]
Light Plot Deconstructed, second edition review
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Leave a Comment
Light Plot Deconstructed is a book written to compliment the Vectorworks Spotlight application, it is billed as a tutorial manual that is both accessible and easy to follow. It is written by Gregg Hilmar, someone who is infinitely qualified to talk on the subject. Gregg has spent years as a professional lighting designer who has [...]
The Stage Managers tool kit
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Leave a Comment
Techie Talk is proud to welcome our first guest author; Lois Dawson is a stage manager based in Canada. In this article Lois talks us through her stage management kit, what it consists of and where you can obtain some of the items. It demonstrates someone who has years of experience and I’m sure many [...]
Behringer BCF2000 review
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Behringer BCF2000 controller is an 8 channel MIDI fader wing with dozens of applications and uses. I’ve looked at it with a view to using it in conjunction with software based lighting controllers. However, it is in no way limited to this purpose, in fact it wasn’t really designed with this use in mind [...]
Gaff-Stax review
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Leave a Comment
LeMark recently launched a new product in their Gaffer tape range called Gaff-Stax. LeMark are a big name in the industrial tape sector and if you work in theatre you’ve almost certainly used one of their roles of legendary Gaffer tape. There are many other manufacturers of Duct tape and cloth Gaffer. However, nothing else [...]
