Android Apps

[PawPaw]

To contribute to the general sliding away from the actual question that was asked, some non-shooting apps I've found useful:

You didn't expect a quick, concise answer at theguncounter, did you?

No, I didn't. And some of the responses have been quite helpful. My sister (who's been a trauma nurse in a major hospital for 20 years) suggested iTriad. My wife is an RN and my sister says that she uses iTriad every day.

As for myself, I have very little use for medical apps. I'll stop the bleeding and call for EMS, then start CPR if necessary. I'm not a medical guy, and have no ambitions in that field.

Paw Paw,

For your professional side, might not hurt to have one or all of the following apps:

WISER
Cargo Decoder
ERG 2012

All are HAZMAT related, and can be used to decode the signs on HAZMAT containers and vehicles to determine what chemicals they contain along with proper response and emergency first aid information.

Kind of thing that might come in handy someday but not worth lugging a hard copy of the ERG around for. If nothing else, help you from becoming a "Blue Canary".

That's a good idea. I'll look into those.

I use Strelok for ballistics. There might be better apps available, but that one has everything I need. I've saved several guns, calibers and loads in it, and can get accurate data for different zero and wind conditions.
It's good enough that I have been able to use a 25 metres zero on my magnum revolver and estimate where it will hit up over 100 metres. (I didn't have time to zero it at 100m before a long distance competition) I've used it to calculate it up to over 300metres, but so far I haven't verified it over 100metres. Yeah, we compete at those distances.

Thanks, I downloaded that this morning on your recommendation, and I like what I see. I'll play with it some more, but it looks like it might be useful.

[mekender]

Welcome to the world of almost.

Many apps are just about what you want, but not quite.

Sorry don't have anything to recommend for the requested subject. I like and use the heck out of : Out of Milk. It makes lists and does a pretty good job, most of the time, of voice data entry. When I think of something we need, I grab my phone and put it on the list, then it is there where and when I need it while shopping.

If you have a version that can support it, check out the google voice commands... I can say "reminder, get milk at the grocery store" and the next time I go to the store, my phone will pop up a reminder to get milk.

[mekender]

Barcode Scanner is indispensable if you are shopping for something costly. Just scan the barcode and up pops reviews and competitor's pricing. I've used it more than once at places that will "match or beat our competitor's price".

Google goggles works REALLY well to do the same, except this will let you just take a pic of the front of the box and it will find the item.

[Lokidude]

Google Goggles is indeed awesome. Brightest Flashlight and Kingsoft Office also see a bit of use. I have the Blogger app, not that I blog like I should. Beyond that, I play a couple stupid games, and have a couple work apps, but they're only useful to an electrician.

[arctictom]

Not one any more, but their are some great emt/first responder apps .

[Odahi]

I HATED the music player that came with the OS. I now use Rocket Player, which is slightly better. It will at least play all the songs in the album, in sequence, without having to manually hit play after each song. However, it still puts a little pause in between songs. It also allows me to use any song as alarm/ringtone. Also, since I'm a cheap bastard/poverty-stricken bum, the free version doesn't have equalizer functions. I can live with it, until it irks me enough to find another player. I have something like 200 albums on my chip, and it's less than half full.
I have the weather channel's app, and use it often. It's as accurate as anyone's, and it was free.
I have a flashlight app that I thought I really needed, and have used a little. It was free, too.
Games: Yachty (that's the way they spell it), Mah Jong, a crossword program, and hangman, all free.
I also replaced the clock app with a free one that has a stopwatch, timer, and multiple alarms.
Do you sense a pattern here?
I also have a bunch of photos and a few books on the chip, but the phone screen is really too small to do more than a few minutes' reading at a time. Unless I want a headache.

[mekender]

I have only bought one app, paid $1.99 for SkyDroid... If you have an Android and play golf, it is pretty much a must have.

[PawPaw]

Follow up question: The video camera in this phone formats the video in MP4, and my old, Vista-running computer doesn't habla MP4. Doesn't recognize it, doesn't like it, won't work with it.

Is there a reasonably down-loadable program that I can use to convert MP4 video into another format? I've tried downloading several and the ones I've used I immediately took off the computer. They were too glitchy or tried to get me to buy the "Plus package".

And, don't tell me to get an Apple. That ain't happening. But I do need a workaround so that I can take video off of the phone and edit it on the computer.

[BadgerVet]

I just got a new cell phone also. My old Samsung Galaxy 3 was two years old and the only way I could get it to turn off was to pull the battery. Finally had enough and got a S4.


I tried Drop Box this morning and am playing with it. It sends the phone pictures to the computer automatically after set up. I just took a short video of the grandsons and viewed it on the computer. Don't know much about editing yet but it seems to work well for transferring pictures.

I don't know if Vista works with it, but it downloads to Drop Box on your computer so maybe its a by pass of the operating system. Sorry , but I only know enough computer to get my job done and I call the tech for any tough questions. Good luck.

[Cobar]

TO play the MP4 files you can just use VLC (Video Lan Client)

To change video formats I use a program called handbrake.