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| From | Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android, sci.electronics.repair |
| Subject | Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) |
| Date | 2016-09-30 03:18 +0000 |
| Organization | Mixmin |
| Message-ID | <nsklic$8a8$1@news.mixmin.net> (permalink) |
| References | <nses87$nn$1@news.mixmin.net> <nskkiq$6f3$1@news.mixmin.net> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:01:46 -0000 (UTC), Horace Algier wrote: > Let's hope the next hit is better: > 50 Emergency Apps: Turn Your Phone into a Life-Saving Device! > http://prepared-housewives.com/emergency-apps-that-might-just-save-your-life/ Looking at the list of 50 emergency apps that "turn your phone into a life-saving device"... 50 Emergency Apps: Turn Your Phone into a Life-Saving Device! http://prepared-housewives.com/emergency-apps-that-might-just-save-your-life/ Skimming the list, and eliminating all the "Diy emergency" apps out of hand, at the beginning, there's the normal ICE stuff after the crap-DIY stuff (both of which I find to be basically useless), and then there are "organizational stuff" apps. For example... Who know the Red Cross has emergency apps such as this: Wildfire - American Red Cross By American Red Cross https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cube.arc.wfa Interestingly, along with all the "disaster alert" apps, they do have the scanner app we've been touting as KISS and unobtrusively free, namely 5-0 Scanner for iOS and Scanner for Android. The article touts an app called "Map Droyd" which claims it works without cell service (duh, all offline maps work that way), so I don't know what the big deal is, but I hadn't heard of "map droyd" before so I'll check it out separately. There's also "Google Sky Map" (which I didn't know existed either), which maps the stars. Having grown up hiking and camping all the time, I can navigate by the stars on my own in the northern hemisphere, but it's probably useful for others who don't know how to tell direction from a quick glance through clouds at the sky. The isocline map they tout is "Back Country Navigator", and the OSM map they list is "GPS Grid Reference". They tout MotionX GPS Drive for offline use navigating on roads, and again we see the potentially useful "Spot Connect" which purports to use satellite messaging (which I'm not sure how exactly that works from a non-satellite phone when you have no signal whatsoever). After the map selection, there is a ton of cpr-related medical garbage, and then we see "red panic button" again, which seems simple enough to be somewhat useful if set up correctly. After that, there were the inevitable scare mongering social networking apps such as life360 and social alert... And the article ends with a handful of completely unrelated apps that they claim are useful, but in that list are "calculator" and "camera", so, it's a waste of time to get that far into the article before it ends. Overall, only two apps strike me as potentially worth a second look, which are the satellite connection app (how the heck *can* it work?) and the panic button app - which seems simple enough if it doesn't require logins and idiotic marketing stuff to work).
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How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-27 22:35 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 09:39 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2016-09-28 12:36 +0200
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 20:56 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-28 15:11 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-09-28 20:41 +0100
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 06:20 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-28 16:00 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 06:00 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 07:31 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 22:48 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-29 17:51 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-29 13:56 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-29 18:38 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-29 14:47 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-30 04:21 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 15:00 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-09-30 17:36 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-29 18:43 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-29 14:46 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 09:23 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 02:51 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 14:45 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 15:24 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 15:58 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 02:51 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 14:50 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-09-29 23:58 -0700
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-09-30 00:06 -0700
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 15:24 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:08 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2016-09-30 20:33 -0500
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-09-30 19:25 -0700
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2016-09-30 21:36 -0500
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 12:45 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-28 16:00 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-28 16:05 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 03:01 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-30 03:18 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2016-09-30 08:56 -0700
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2016-09-30 11:49 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:10 +1000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2016-10-01 10:39 -0400
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 07:49 +1100
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 07:09 +0000
Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 19:31 +1100
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