Boating iphone apps
 

On Nov 29, 7:32*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:46 -0500, I am Tosk

wrote:

Probably an I Phone like the wife's. It's nice although weird to hold up
to your ear, when you use it in that most primitive of communications
modes.... as a phone!!! ;) The things are designed with nice touch
screens for typing text and surfing the net... My wife can log in from
on her horsie or at the MX track and handle small server issues or
billing, etc... Many websites are designed with these things in mind and
the touch zoom features most of these things have makes it not so bad to
navigate websites, find food or whatever on the road, get a phone number
and address of a store you just decided to visit. Really not bad if you
need that sort of access. Me, I just call her and let her look it up for
me...;)

Wife told me that was an IPod on the table. *She knows this stuff too.
Worked with a guy who had a blue-tooth thing. *The thing that wraps
around your ear.
Probably 25 times he was walking towards me and talking to somebody
else.
Fooled me the first 20 times. *"What? *Speak up." I'd say.
Then he'd do a 180, walk in the other direction still talking.
I never got used to it, but I think he learned to turn around before
he got close to me.

--Vic *

I looked thru hundreds of apps for one that gave tides, nothing? Can
someone point to one?

Boating iphone apps
 

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:15:05 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

I looked thru hundreds of apps for one that gave tides, nothing? Can
someone point to one?

Not on an iPhone but there's a good free one on OpenCPN:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn/

Boating iphone apps
 

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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:46 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:


Probably an I Phone like the wife's. It's nice although weird to hold up
to your ear, when you use it in that most primitive of communications
modes.... as a phone!!! ;) The things are designed with nice touch
screens for typing text and surfing the net... My wife can log in from
on her horsie or at the MX track and handle small server issues or
billing, etc... Many websites are designed with these things in mind and
the touch zoom features most of these things have makes it not so bad to
navigate websites, find food or whatever on the road, get a phone number
and address of a store you just decided to visit. Really not bad if you
need that sort of access. Me, I just call her and let her look it up for
me...;)

Wife told me that was an IPod on the table. She knows this stuff too.
Worked with a guy who had a blue-tooth thing. The thing that wraps
around your ear.
Probably 25 times he was walking towards me and talking to somebody
else.
Fooled me the first 20 times. "What? Speak up." I'd say.
Then he'd do a 180, walk in the other direction still talking.
I never got used to it, but I think he learned to turn around before
he got close to me.

--Vic

Was it a real shiny one with a big blue light that says "LOOK AT ME,
LOOK AT ME"!! :)

Boating iphone apps
 

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:30:41 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?


Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

You're about three years behind the times - all that stuff is already
on the iPhone apps list.

I would suggest that you invent something other than an iPhone - Apple
is the anti-Christ.

Yeah, how about more "apps" for the Blackberry?

--Mike

Boating iphone apps
 

Frogwatch wrote:
On Nov 29, 7:32 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:46 -0500, I am Tosk

wrote:

Probably an I Phone like the wife's. It's nice although weird to hold up
to your ear, when you use it in that most primitive of communications
modes.... as a phone!!! ;) The things are designed with nice touch
screens for typing text and surfing the net... My wife can log in from
on her horsie or at the MX track and handle small server issues or
billing, etc... Many websites are designed with these things in mind and
the touch zoom features most of these things have makes it not so bad to
navigate websites, find food or whatever on the road, get a phone number
and address of a store you just decided to visit. Really not bad if you
need that sort of access. Me, I just call her and let her look it up for
me...;)
Wife told me that was an IPod on the table. She knows this stuff too.
Worked with a guy who had a blue-tooth thing. The thing that wraps
around your ear.
Probably 25 times he was walking towards me and talking to somebody
else.
Fooled me the first 20 times. "What? Speak up." I'd say.
Then he'd do a 180, walk in the other direction still talking.
I never got used to it, but I think he learned to turn around before
he got close to me.

--Vic

I looked thru hundreds of apps for one that gave tides, nothing? Can
someone point to one?


Took me less than a second:

http://www.tideapp.com/


You don't seem to be "equipped" for technology.




--
If you are flajim, herring, loogy, GC boater, johnson, topbassdog, rob,
achmed the sock puppet, or one of a half dozen others, you're wasting
your time by trying to *communicate* with me through rec.boats, because,
well, you are among the permanent members of my dumbfoch dumpster, and I
don't read the vomit you post, except by accident on occasion. As
always, have a nice, simple-minded day.

Boating iphone apps
 

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:14 -0800, "mgg" wrote:


"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
message ...
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:30:41 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?


Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

You're about three years behind the times - all that stuff is already
on the iPhone apps list.

I would suggest that you invent something other than an iPhone - Apple
is the anti-Christ.

Yeah, how about more "apps" for the Blackberry?

--Mike


Which my niece now refers to as the 'crackberry'. I don't have one,
but I can see they're quite addictive to the young folks. Over
Thanksgiving three of the grandchildren were fighting over my wife's
constantly.
--

John H

Boating iphone apps
 

On Nov 29, 6:34*pm, I am Tosk wrote:
In article ,
says...







On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:30:41 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?

Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: *An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

I'd like an ap to pour a beer for me.
Though I did IT tech work for a living, I don't know any of this new
stuff. *Saw one of these high tech comm "devices" on the kitchen table
the other day. *One of my kids had laid it down there.
I picked it up and looked at it briefly, but never figured out what if
was for, or even how to turn it on.
It was rectangle shaped and made of a strange shiny metal.
About 2 1/2" x 4 1Pro/2' x 1/2"
Looked like it had a window on it, but hard to tell.
I felt like one of the "savages" in some Star Trek episode that finds
a phaser or something that Kirk dropped.
I was afraid to get it going. *Who knows what would happen?
So I put it down and had a beer instead. *Made me feel modern.
Not in a square glass though.
Saw them in Star Trek on a table.
A square glass is just stupid. *Anybody who ever drank out of a square
kerosene can knows that.

--Vic

Probably an I Phone like the wife's. It's nice although weird to hold up
to your ear, when you use it in that most primitive of communications
modes.... as a phone!!! ;) The things are designed with nice touch
screens for typing text and surfing the net... My wife can log in from
on her horsie or at the MX track and handle small server issues or
billing, etc... Many websites are designed with these things in mind and
the touch zoom features most of these things have makes it not so bad to
navigate websites, find food or whatever on the road, get a phone number
and address of a store you just decided to visit. Really not bad if you
need that sort of access. Me, I just call her and let her look it up for
me...;)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

iPhones are crap.

Boating iphone apps
 

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On Nov 29, 6:34*pm, I am Tosk wrote:
In article ,
says...







On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:30:41 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?

Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: *An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

I'd like an ap to pour a beer for me.
Though I did IT tech work for a living, I don't know any of this new
stuff. *Saw one of these high tech comm "devices" on the kitchen table
the other day. *One of my kids had laid it down there.
I picked it up and looked at it briefly, but never figured out what if
was for, or even how to turn it on.
It was rectangle shaped and made of a strange shiny metal.
About 2 1/2" x 4 1Pro/2' x 1/2"
Looked like it had a window on it, but hard to tell.
I felt like one of the "savages" in some Star Trek episode that finds
a phaser or something that Kirk dropped.
I was afraid to get it going. *Who knows what would happen?
So I put it down and had a beer instead. *Made me feel modern.
Not in a square glass though.
Saw them in Star Trek on a table.
A square glass is just stupid. *Anybody who ever drank out of a square
kerosene can knows that.

--Vic

Probably an I Phone like the wife's. It's nice although weird to hold up
to your ear, when you use it in that most primitive of communications
modes.... as a phone!!! ;) The things are designed with nice touch
screens for typing text and surfing the net... My wife can log in from
on her horsie or at the MX track and handle small server issues or
billing, etc... Many websites are designed with these things in mind and
the touch zoom features most of these things have makes it not so bad to
navigate websites, find food or whatever on the road, get a phone number
and address of a store you just decided to visit. Really not bad if you
need that sort of access. Me, I just call her and let her look it up for
me...;)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

iPhones are crap.

Hey, it gets the wife away from her desk and out to play! That's good
enough for me and her... Before that all we had was laptops with cell
cards, and up until recently, they sucked too.

Boating iphone apps
 

On Nov 29, 12:30*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
Although I not only work with high tech but also invent it, I am
somewhat of a luddite having never sent a text message or even looked
at a "tweet" and iphones were far off my personal radar but at
Thanksgiving, my sister showed me her iphone and some apps and I
immediately went into "inventor" mode seeing the possibilities.
Why not an app that helps id fish and keeps up withe the constantly
changing fishin regulations?
Why not an app that turns the GPS equipped phone into a chart plotter
( just found this one exists, it is called "inavx")?

Other possibilities:
For my diabetic daughter: *An app to calculate carbs of a meal based
on what you eat.
An app to quickly calculate your cars mpg when you fill up.

A "stethoscope" app using the phone held to your chest.
A birdsong app identifying birds based on the calls it hears from
Fourier Analysis.

I really like my iPhone. It's much better than the Treo it replaced.

The killer app for me is the Weather Channel. It has a weather radar
function that not only gives you the current image, but will also put
the last half-hour or so in a loop mode, allowing your to see where
the weather is coming from and is headed to. I keep it by my side
when out on the boat on days with possible thunderstorms. That's when
it's nice to have a pontoon that'll run 40mph.