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12-13-2010, 08:39 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Smart Phone Useful Apps
Not sure this hasn't already been done but any use to listing useful (free) apps to load onto iPhone/Droid/BB?
Anyone use tideApp ?
Downloaded onto my Droid and seems to be a very useful ap? |
 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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12-13-2010, 09:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
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I haven't tried it yet, I have the droid2. Its amazing.
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12-13-2010, 09:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: hampden ma
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Navionics App. Its not free but its a great back-up.
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12-14-2010, 05:56 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefseany
Navionics App. Its not free but its a great back-up.
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Checked this out today, WOW for 10 £ (about $14) it is a great backup for the boat GPS!
Thanks
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Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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12-15-2010, 08:47 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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This thread SOOO needs more love 
On Droid:
Google Earth (Obvoiusly)
Marine Weather by Bluefin - not sure I like it yet but slowly learning it.
Tide App
TidePrediction
iPhone:
Surf Report
Tides
The Weather Channel
Google Earth
Flashlight (usually use it to find my head lamp  ) |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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12-15-2010, 09:16 AM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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For iPhone:
the weather channel
Swellinfo
Oakley surf report
Surfline
US Harbors Tides
Sunrise/sunset
All free and easy to use.
The surf ones have all the Newport beaches and spots in soco.
Tides are accurate
Sunrise/Sunset is a cool one, tells you when false dawn is and all stages of the sun.
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12-15-2010, 09:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
Posts: 1,501
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I had my g/f add the navionics to her droid, it works nice. The other app we added to look for thuderstorms that works well is "rainy days"
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12-15-2010, 09:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefseany
Navionics App. Its not free but its a great back-up.
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It's worth every penny!!! I love that ap. I use it as a back up to my back up on my boat (hence I rarely need on it) BUT have used it MANY times on other peoples boat(s). This thing is ***better*** than the inexpensive GPS plotters I have seen on some boats. (no kidding) There is still a few improvements they can make though.
A fun one around lady friends is .... the fireplace ap (like the guy in the Capt Morgan commercial "the best idea you every had!" I have Barry White as my music selection 
The marine weather ap is great (use it multiple times a day)
I had "family map" that allowed me to keep real time track of my teenagers (in google earth) (but unfortunately, the lawyers got involved and now it tells them they are being tracked. This defeats the purpose and they turn off their phone if they don't want me to track them so I canceled the service.
sb.com needs an ap (I don't know what it should do through...maybe display real time fishing reports with GPS positions  ) |
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12-15-2010, 09:36 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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will a lot of these apps work on the Touch? I am getting the new 4 G Touch for X- Mas. I have never used any apps as my previous touch didn't have any extra room with all my music, this one has much more space. Be real hard to live without one of these things now.
BTW what the hell does 4 G mean anyway? 4th generation? what is the bottom line? speed, memory, just more advanced technology?
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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12-15-2010, 09:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Boston, PRofMA
Posts: 276
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I'm an android user so:
"creelcard" for tracking fishing data
"fishin 2 go lite" for when you are bored and want some simulated fun
I use a Moto Cliq, but the Moto Defy is the first waterproof smart phone I know of and would be ideal for fishing...too bad they had to add that motoblur crap on it so it'll take forever to get new android versions :-P
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12-15-2010, 12:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 18
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iPhone 4
I have yet to find one free weather app that does everything I'm looking for, so I have several (all free):
Accuweather
TWC
WeatherBug
WeatherEye
iWeatherFree
Then I also have
Tides
Bing Maps
GPS Lite
Trailhead
The Onion
And there's one called Free Apps which shows a list of apps that usually cost money that are offered for free as promotions for short time periods.
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12-15-2010, 01:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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does the navionics chart plot
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12-15-2010, 02:51 PM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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google sky map is cool
TideApp on android is ok, not the most user friendly though
Magic Seaweed on android is useful. Its basically long range (7 day) forcest for surfers with predicted wave hight, period and direction; wind speed and direction; and weather for the next week. There are tons of beaches/spots to choose from on there so getting one near where you fish is pretty easy.
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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12-15-2010, 03:32 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTPORTMAFIA
does the navionics chart plot
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Yes
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Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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12-15-2010, 04:11 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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angry birds
not useful.. but fun  |
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12-15-2010, 04:59 PM
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><(((°> ><((( °> ><(((°>
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Falmouth, Ma
Posts: 1,520
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atomic fart.. a classic
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60 % of the time, it works every time.
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12-15-2010, 05:06 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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NERDS
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12-15-2010, 05:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
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No doubt a "Tell you when and where the bass are hitting in the Canal" app real soon. 
If I had money to burn, I'd buy a portable cell phone signal blocker and carry it with me at the Canal. |
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12-15-2010, 06:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrHunters
angry birds
not useful.. but fun |
Skies of Glory is the best app ever... WWII dog fights |
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12-15-2010, 07:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 53
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Try Magic Seaweed. Awesome free App has spots and the current weather conditions, tides, etc.
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12-15-2010, 08:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gremlin
Try Magic Seaweed. Awesome free App has spots and the current weather conditions, tides, etc.
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Is it an iPhone app??
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12-16-2010, 10:56 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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i have it on android
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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12-18-2010, 07:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 53
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
Is it an iPhone app??
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Both iphone and droid. |
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12-19-2010, 07:29 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefseany
Navionics App. Its not free but its a great back-up.
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NAVIONICS: The Leader in Electronic Charts
Useful link depending upon your hardware. |
Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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12-19-2010, 07:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 324
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Tide App
Radar Now
The Weather Channel
Magic Seaweed Surf Forecasts
Google Earth
Google Maps
...all on Android
The Navionics app looks cool too
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12-19-2010, 08:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northport,NY
Posts: 172
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A couple of friends have that Tideapp. It has been off from Noaa Tide charts in almost every circumstance we used it in.
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12-19-2010, 10:06 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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I refuse to come out of pocket and the technology shadows for a smart phone until they make the phone we ALL need, and they are fully capable of making:
Smart phone that is:
* Waterproof
*8 + megapixel camera WITH flash...
Until my demands are met, this new so-called necessity will remain an un-purchased luxury...
*carry on....
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12-20-2010, 12:38 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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i find tideapp buggy
the bluefin marine weather is good, and also has tides so that is what I use.
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i bent my wookie
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12-23-2010, 12:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Boston, PRofMA
Posts: 276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivanputski
Smart phone that is:
* Waterproof
*8 + megapixel camera WITH flash...
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Almost there....Motorola Defy is an Android phone that's weather resistant (but I've a photo with it in a cup of water), but only has a 5MP camera and that godawful Motoblur junk (my Cliq has it and it slugs when it syncs)-: |
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12-23-2010, 02:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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Great thread.
Navionics is awesome.
Tide app is ok.
definitley going to to download magic seaweed right now.
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