Smart Phone Apps for Survivalist

[LaciRich]

Radio NOAA
MyRadar (free)
Disaster Alert
Black Gold (Oil Price Tracker)
Gold Live (Tracks Precious metals prices)
Tweetdeck (Twitter app, Twitter is FABULOUS for news during events)
Skype
PEPID (Medical Information App)
Free Wifi (hotspot finder)
SASLite (SAS Manual)
Aljazeera English app
TuneIn Radio Pro (paid version)
5-0 Radio Pro Scanners (paid version only)
iHeartRadio

[Castiel]

Apps that are survival worthy on the Android market? Im looking through it and it some of the apps in itunes arent in the android market so I was wondering if anyone knew of any good apps. Aside from the SAS Guide.

[dvdranes]

I'll start the ball rolling. I downloaded a PDF reader and MS WORD reader, both free, for my $99 Android tablet. All of my survival files are in one of these formats or the other. A small Micro SD Card (8 Gigs) holds these files, scanned personal documents and photographs, and some music files. All files are encrypted. I still have about 4 Gigs left to expand. All files are also backed up onto a DVD, and thumb drives. Will be watching for additional files on this post. These files were found by a simple search on google.

I also copy information from this Forum, including some fiction, as my night reading. These articles and stories are saved in the .doc format and I save them on the disk for future reference.

Dave

[elf]

I um.. am working on one :D
BUT
I can't say anything for now =(
I'll post a thread once I launch it on the Android Market, after all, some of the inspiration to make it was due to this forum and a few other very similar ones I frequent.
(and dvdranes idea is a great one as well, those micro sd cards are pretty dam durable and there's tons of docs out there to collect and put on one or a few,
this case is an awesome way to organize and secure a collection of sd/micro sd cards!)

[Dougzilla]

Android Apps by name: (All Free)
I shortened the URLs for these to avoid dead links..

Radar Now http://tinyw.in/ZRJH

Scanner Radio http://tinyw.in/QTkq

WeatherBug http://tinyw.in/USlH

S.O.S. http://tinyw.in/KcvK

Smart Compass http://tinyw.in/L8fv

GPS Essentials (really cool!) http://tinyw.in/G369

ScreenLight/Strobe http://tinyw.in/bydk

Capture Avoidance http://tinyw.in/6t1a

Mountaineering http://tinyw.in/uZE6

Survival Guide http://tinyw.in/Y3uT

Knots Guide http://tinyw.in/7NCZ

Earthquake Alert http://tinyw.in/CDH0

Disaster Alert http://tinyw.in/m10f

[alergyfree]

Just got my first Smart phone, the Samsung Galaxy s II. It is pretty intimidating as all I've had is a basic flip phone.
Was just thinking about a post like this to find some good apps.
Thanks guys

[Castiel]

DVDRanesI'll start the ball rolling. I downloaded a PDF reader and MS WORD reader, both free, for my $99 Android tablet. All of my survival files are in one of these formats or the other. A small Micro SD Card (8 Gigs) holds these files, scanned personal documents and photographs, and some music files. All files are encrypted. I still have about 4 Gigs left to expand. All files are also backed up onto a DVD, and thumb drives. Will be watching for additional files on this post. These files were found by a simple search on google.

I also copy information from this Forum, including some fiction, as my night reading. These articles and stories are saved in the .doc format and I save them on the disk for future reference.

I'm not that tech savy, but would like to learn, any tips?

DougzillaI shortened the URLs for these to avoid dead links..

Radar Now http://tinyw.in/ZRJH

Scanner Radio http://tinyw.in/QTkq

WeatherBug http://tinyw.in/USlH

S.O.S. http://tinyw.in/KcvK

Smart Compass http://tinyw.in/L8fv

GPS Essentials (really cool!) http://tinyw.in/G369

ScreenLight/Strobe http://tinyw.in/bydk

Capture Avoidance http://tinyw.in/6t1a

Mountaineering http://tinyw.in/uZE6

Survival Guide http://tinyw.in/Y3uT

Knots Guide http://tinyw.in/7NCZ

Earthquake Alert http://tinyw.in/CDH0

Disaster Alert http://tinyw.in/m10f

These are great. I'm very happy with some of these. I think as more apps develop we add them here. Also maybe any way to use technology to aid in survival.

[Castiel]

Originally Posted by alergyfree

Just got my first Smart phone, the Samsung Galaxy s II. It is pretty intimidating as all I've had is a basic flip phone.
Was just thinking about a post like this to find some good apps.
Thanks guys

I know what you mean. I had a smart phone about 3 years back and Iam amazed at how much they changed. During that 3 years I had a motorola brute. DO NOT GET THAT PHONE! Its not durable at all. My Ipod touch 2nd gen is more durable. But now I have an ATRIX 2 and I love it so far.

[alergyfree]

Originally Posted by Castiel

I know what you mean. I had a smart phone about 3 years back and Iam amazed at how much they changed. During that 3 years I had a motorola brute. DO NOT GET THAT PHONE! Its not durable at all. My Ipod touch 2nd gen is more durable. But now I have an ATRIX 2 and I love it so far.

OMG
The Brute is the phone I had!! What poor excuse for technology.

[Castiel]

I don't think I can call it technology lol. Its like a fragile piece of sandstone lol.

[i1dawgfan]

i just got my first smart phone. i did not know that you had to be smart to use them. anyhow i was wondering if anyone has found an app or apps that would help a prepper. i did find a u.s. army survival book for free. haven't read much yet so i can;t tell you if it has any good info. i would think it could be a big help to a new guy like me.

[GramercyRiff]

Compass, MapQuest, Google Earth, AllTrails, EveryTrail, SAS Survival, Survival Guide, iFirst Aid, FlashLight, Around Me (navigation), Bullet Drop, 5-0 Radio, EM.Radio, Converter+, CH Lite, SpotPrice (PM prices), Web MD.

I believe each of these iPhone apps is free or has a free version (which is fine). I would also get the app for at least two of your local news channels.

[MikeK]

You might check in the tech forum here. I'm sure they probably discuss that stuff in there.

[GotPrepz?]

Check out "Tactical NAV" for the iPhone.

[LaciRich]

I got the paid version of 5-0 Radio, and I think it's better than the free version. They even broadcast HAM repeaters on that app.

Black Gold for tracking oil prices
Kitco Gold Live for Gold and Silver prices
CNBC Live for Market (just got it today)
SAS Survival Guide Lite
PepID (Physician's Desk Reference in an app)
Free Wifi (find hotspots)
My Radar (Weather Radar)
Radio NOAA ( Weather Alert Broadcasts)
Weather Channel app
Disaster Alert (shows locations of disasters)
TuneIn Radio (stations)
iHeartRadio( again more stations)
NHK LIve (foreign news)
Aljazeera English (more foreign sources)
Compass
Mapquest
Google Earth

[HiroProX]

I'm currently working on an android handloading app.

[rover]

spyglass and everything that company makes is cool, spyglass use to be free, but it is cool.

police scanner is good, get the one that cost a few bucks, lot more channels. dont know about the delay tho.

[crackodoom]

http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/06/22...uch-or-iphone/

someone posted a link in these forums that i've saved with a bajillion survival pdf's... using the app ibooks and then putting those pdf's on your iphone/ipod/ipad would probably eliminate the need for any other informational apps.

original link from these boards:
https://www.survivalistboards.com/sho...d.php?t=206879

[Alpha-Zombie]

I just made one called, "The American Survivalist," that is a free app.

You can find it here:

[HiroProX]

Radiation monitoring? There's an app for that. (Android)

https://market.android.com/details?i...YWN0aXZpdHkiXQ..