On Nov 29, 6:34*pm, I am Tosk wrote:
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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 -

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iPhones are crap.

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

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.

There is a fellow from Maine named Jeff Siegel who has done a lot of
interesting work with iPhones and other mobile devices:

http://www.activecaptain.com/article...nes/iPhone.php

He also has a very cool web application named "Active Captain" which
is a veritable treasure trove of good cruising information such as
marina information and anchoring locations:

http://www.activecaptain.com/OTW.php

Registration is free, some of it can be accessed via mobile phones.

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@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com, says...

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"

Oh, oh, Harry will be all over this. He thinks anyone who doesn't spend
their day on usenet and cut and paste stolen pics to the net, can't know
anything about computer systems. Remember, Harry installed windoze 7 all
by himself, uses a Mac for Internet and pics, and installed a HDD and
ram into a computer last year. Only took him three months and he called
it a "server"... snerk Hope those guys are mocking him irrelevant

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.

At the same time, I wonder if the same apps would work with my laptop.
It has the motion detector built in to protect the HDD already, but I
don't know if you want to hook the built in mic up to your chest There
are lots of apps out there, maybe you will find them already done, but
check it out. I don't know what the guys who write apps get out of it, I
don't know if there is freeware too.. I should ask the wife, she has one
of those. My phone is big and made of bright yellow rubber so it's can
bounce around a bit more than hers... But it doesn't have the touch
screen.

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.

"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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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

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


"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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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

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.