Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Sometimes it’s uncanny how many similar iPhone apps appear at about the same time. Over the past week or so, we’ve heard about a number of new apps that “tune you into” streaming police, fire, and emergency medical service radio services. Apps like this can be useful to volunteer firefighters, off-duty policemen, news crews, scanner enthusiasts, and the occasional ambulance-chasing lawyer.
The first out of the box is Police Scanner 1.1 (US$2.99, click opens iTunes) from Juicy Development. This app now features over 1,100 streams from 7 different countries and a streamlined interface for getting to your favorite local emergency radio, The developers will add any compatible stream to their app within hours of being notified of that stream, so if there are no local radios listed now, there may be soon.
Next in the queue is Emergency Radio 1.1 (US$0.99, click opens iTunes) from Edge Rift. It’s available in a free “Lite” version if you want to try it out on a handful of major cities, or you can spend a buck to get over 900 feeds from all over the US. I personally thought the code lists (see photo) are nice touch.
If you prefer a little music with your police calls, Wunder Radio 1.6 (US$6.99, click opens iTunes) not only captures the same emergency radio streams from ScanAmerica.us as the other two apps, but is also the best (IMHO) iPhone app out there for listening to local radio stations. It also gives you NOAA weather information for US locations, not to mention railroad crew and dispatch calls.
Regardless of which scanner app you select, it’s sure to give you hours of fun, and it’s definitely worth listening in on why the cops visited your neighbor’s house at 3 A.M.
TUAWCalling all iPhones! Emergency scanner apps on the loose! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPod classic
Andrew sent us this great story — he found an iPod classic in the melting snow of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It had apparently been there “since early winter,” and was frozen solid… as is the case, we’d imagine, with most things left outside there between September and April.
Incredibly, though, once taken home, cleaned up, and given a warm cup of tomato soup and a grilled cheese, it started right back up again. Everything was completely intact — he says it even displayed the correct date. Pretty impressive for Apple’s little music player (and mine’s even stuffed in a Vaja case, so I know it’ll always run for me — assuming I don’t drop it in a pile of snow somewhere).
He says there is a name on the iPod, so if you’ve been around the Whitehorse area and have recently dropped your iPod near a place called Takhini School, leave him a note and he will probably be able to get it back to you. But do it quick — he’s giving things about a week, and then it’s finder’s keepers. We don’t blame him: who wouldn’t want an indestructible iPod?
TUAWFrozen iPod returns from the grave originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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