Good mobile apps for engineers?
Good mobile apps for engineers?
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What are some helpful mobile/tablet apps you use for work?
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RE: Good mobile apps for engineers?
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The compass is also a good feature. There is also a flashlight app which I find useful.
These are all for field work. I almost never use the iphone in the office except to play games on slow days.
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Dropbox - Take photos in the field from your phone, they sync to dropbox almost immediately allowing people in the office to see what you see. All files can be accessed from there for review or transfer.
Adobe - Lets you create a PDF from a photo, then you can add comments, sketches, etc.
Hilti Anchors - Good library of post installed anchors. This is the only one that I use at my desk in lieu of my PC.
New Millennium has a decent app for joist sizing.
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It can easily connect to Brother brand wireless printers, and print from the phone, which is kind of cool, or scan to the phone from a multifunction printer, which is impressive for saving and/or sending copies of documents.
I wish it worked with other brands of printers, or that other mfgr's wireless printer apps worked as well.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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It sometimes misinterprets what you write, but you get used to it.
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Evernote is the best though and it syncs between my office/home/mobile/tablet.
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Another useful one is "Converter". All sorts of conversion factors that I can never remember.
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Beyond that, I use the flashlight and calculator apps routinely but have used several and have no preference.
PE, SE
Eastern United States
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Definition of irony: A Ford Focus driver with ADD...
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That one got a chuckle out of me, sb...
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When I have to use my phone as a calculator, I want something that's reliable/repeatable, so RPN Calculator is my choice. Most of the emulators suffer from trying to fit something that was designed for a different form factor into a smartphone screen, and it generally doesn't get pulled off.
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I agree with you that it is not that great for anything too serious or complex. If that is an issue, I would not recommend anything on a mobile phone
It suits some of the tasks I want to perform, it may (or may not) suit others too.
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One other great app is the Bosch photo something-or-other. You can capture a picture and then impose dimensions/text directly onto the photo to download or email later.
PE, SE
Eastern United States
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- Steve
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Cheers
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If you haven't came across Wolfram before it's like an "engineers google" that will calculate, convert, plot and so forth just about anything. You can ask for anything from solving equations to "diameter 5mm and force 2N, what is the mechanical stress?" and it usually understands the question no matter how you make the input.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/MechanicalEng...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ControlSyste...
(and so forth)
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As much as I hate Windows8, I like the concept of lugging around one of those new, small, convertible laptop/tablet computers. I just can't get away from having a real computer OS with everything copied from my office PC.
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* i41CX+
* RCL59 (for nostalgia's sake)
* Math Studio
* Pipe Sizes (Garner Labs)
* Pipe Tools (Bri Chem)
* Steam Tools (Spirax / Sarco)
* Steam Tables
* IAPWS-IF97 Steam Tables (Zittau / Goerlitz University Of Applied Sciences)
* Unit Converter Pro
* Colebrook-White
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Droid48 for when I forget my calculator.
B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer
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I use my tablet to read pdf copies of textbooks I own and basically have an arsenal of information at my finger tips when in meetings.
I always have the Engineering Cookbook on my cellphone, just for quick references when I haven't had enough caffeine on an early Monday morning meeting
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3D Brain, Engineering Libraries and definitely Molecules..!! too affirmative for my daily use to cater different thought processes.
Abigail
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Worth checking out.
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- Steve
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Reviews of others are more positive.
Have you done a comparison, SomptingGuy?
STF
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I've not done a comparison with others (hands up on that one).
It appeals to me because it gives direct control over the things that matter to me (block size, sample rate, frequency resolution, averaging). Like it's been written by someone that knows the background to spectral analysis rather than someone who wants to make a flashy toy. (First application for me was to measure my car's idle speed by picking-off the 2E frequency, adjusting the DSP parameters to get the exact measurement I wanted). Text dump of latest and averaged spectra is pretty simple too. Friends can't see a use for it. Surprisingly, most colleagues can't either.
- Steve
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It's apps like the ones I'm seeing here that make me want to ditch my flip-phone Nokia and get an android after all. Despite the fact that my Nokia still lasts almost 3 weeks without a recharge.
STF
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Cheers
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