Apps for iphone (& other smartphones)

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greasemonkey

Forager
Jun 7, 2008
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Cumbernauld
Yeah, knotsguide is good. But there are a few I think it should have that it missed out.
Thanks everyone who answered my question about android GPS, I've not been on the board for a few weeks so I just read them.
 

greasemonkey

Forager
Jun 7, 2008
107
1
Cumbernauld
Some other good android apps, mostly not bushcrafty.

Morsecoder

Speedview Uses GPS as a speedometer, measures acceleration times (gimmick, but a fun one), and projects an HUD on to your car windscreen.

Smart compass

Trapster A constantly updated list of speed cameras, mobile and fixed.

Garage buddy Mostly aimed at americans, it gives lots of workshop conversions and calculations for things like displacement, compression ratios, etc.

AA Gives traffic information, service reminders and uses the GPS to request assistance at your exact location.

Old time radio Plays, well, old time radio dramas. Lots of genres, westerns, sci fi, spy stories. I'm halfway through a Hopalong Cassidy story just now.

Angry birds Fun game, free on android although itunes charge for it, Angry birds Seasons is also good and was recently updated with a new valentine's edition.
 

BILLy

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Apr 16, 2005
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some of my personal outdoorsy, campingy, bushcrafty faves [all for iphone]:

* motion-X GPS [£1,79]

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GPS app with all the usual features you'd find in your garmin and then some! more options than you can shake a stick at and it uses open streetmaps, google, bing and their own motion-x maps, all of which are free. so no need to pay to load extra maps - just download them, as and when needed.

* living earth [59p]

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weather app with 3D spinning globe with live cloud updates and night/day shadows. not the most detailed weather app out there, but having a 3D almost realtime rendition of the earth, spinning in the palm of your hand is pretty cool.

* star walk or pocket universe [both £1,79]

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two excellent 'virtual sky' apps which show you what all those pinpoints of light overhead are. if you've got an iphone 3GS or 4, then these apps work with the built-in GPS and accelerometer to update their displays in realtime as you turn around pointing the phone at the sky. both amazing but, of the two, star walk has the more polished graphics; when you move your phone to point in the direction of a constellation, a picture of the 'thing' that constellation is supposed to depict slowly fades into view and then out again as you move on. it's a work of beauty.


* stanza [FREE]

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not specifically a bushcraft app, but if you want to have sommit to read in your tent at night, this is the best ebook reader out there. combine it with the free calibre - desktop app, which allows you to create ebooks in epub format [the preferred format for stanza and other ebook readers] from PDFs, word docs, plain text files etc and websites like burgomeister's books and project gutenberg and you'll never need to ask for a book token for chrimbo again!

* birds UK [59p]

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one for all you twitchers out there. lists the 50 most common british birds, complete with photos and information on habitat etc. there is also an audio clip associated with each bird, which allows you to play its song. for quite a few of the birds you get two or three calls listed, such as 'song', 'mating call', 'alarm call'. quite good fun for confusing the hell out of any of our feathered friends around you. [to be fair, some of the recordings aren't the best quality. you can hear other noise in the background, but it's still pretty good for under a quid]

* st john ambulance first aid [£2,39]

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the price is a bit steep, but i'm assuming it's going to fund st. john's ambulance, so it's all in a good cause. fairly basic stuff; this app willnae turn you into a brain surgeon, but it might help you know where to rub on the TCP, if you've accidentally cut your own head off, while chopping firewood.

* good reader [£1,19]

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the best reader out there for all those other documents which your ebook reader cannae handle –whether because they're in the wrong format, contain images, or are simply too big. good reader's main selling point is that it handles large PDFs [which choke a lot of other apps] very well. i've got a PDF scan of the workshop manual for my van, which weighs in at about 200mb and good reader is the only app i've found that will open it and allow me to navigate round it, without crashing and burning.

* moon globe [FREE]

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if living earth [see above] allows you to carry a 3D rotating globe of the earth in the palm of your hand, moon globe does the same for the moon; drag the moon around to rotate it in any direction, pinch and zoom to view in close up, identify the prominent features [as well as all the moon landing sites], or go into 'live' mode and see a representation of the phase of the moon in your current location at the current time.

* SAS survival guide [£3,99]

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digital version of the venerable book. uses the iphone interface well, to organise the info for easy access and includes some nice novelty touches such as the facility whereby you can type a message and the app will flash your iphone screen on and off in morse code to spell out that message. great for signalling "help! - please drop beer" to that passing rescue plane!

* theodolite pro [£2,39]

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a theodolite for your phone. as well as the usual, direction, bearing, altitude, inclination etc. measurements, it also includes the ability to use triangulation to measure the distance to a distant object, if you know the height, or the height of a distant object, if you know the distance. all that lovely pythagorean theory stuff they tried to beat into us at school! having said that, i've yet to put it to the test, so no idea how accurate it is.

* tunein radio - [£1,19]

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listen to streaming internet radio from all over the world, including all the UK standbys, such as the beeb and the world service. i've only used it over wifi, where it runs as smoooth as silk. it's supposed to run on data/3G network as well, tho' i've not tried this. might be worth a go, to help keep you in touch with what's going on in the world, if you're somewhere you can still pick up a phone signal [preferably 3G] and have a generous monthly data allowance.

* knot guide [£1,19]

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interactive know tying guide with step by step photo instructions, showing you how to tie 95 different knots, as well as information as to what they are best used for. useful app and is updated fairly regularly with new knots being added.

well, those are some of my favourites. i hope there were of some in there of use to some of you. i also hope the mods willnae slap me down if i finish by mentioning that i run a apple-related discussion forum called appletalker. please feel free to drop in there with any technical problems or questions you have, relating to your shiny new iphones, or other apple gadgets.

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Fantastic post
Cheers
Bill
 

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