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Boating iphone apps
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. |
Boating iphone apps
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. 1. There are at least a bunch of iphone apps for diabetics. 2. You need an app to divide the number of gallons you buy into the mileage since the last fill-up? Were you home schooled? 3. There is an app for "stethescoping." 4. There are also birdsong apps. No, I don't have an iPhone. -- 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 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 1/2' 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 |
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On Nov 29, 1:07*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
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 1/2' 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 Other than my conversation with my sister, and googling "Iphone apps" before posting, I have never had contact with such so my suggestions reflect almost no knowledge of existing apps. Some potential apps will require input of some data but that is to be expected. |
Boating iphone apps
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. |
Boating iphone apps
"Frogwatch" wrote in message
... On Nov 29, 1:07 pm, Vic Smith wrote: 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 1/2' 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 Other than my conversation with my sister, and googling "Iphone apps" before posting, I have never had contact with such so my suggestions reflect almost no knowledge of existing apps. Some potential apps will require input of some data but that is to be expected. The iPhone is way cool. I have the 3G. No need to have video avail. with the 3GS. I think I'll wait until 4G gets going, then upgrade. -- Nom=de=Plume |
Boating iphone apps
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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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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/ |
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"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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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