iPhone Apps for Spies on a Budget
March 12th, 2009Being a spy isn’t easy, but having state-of-the-art tools makes it a heck of a lot easier. If you don’t have that bankroll of a major player, the iPhone can help tide you over, with the following nifty apps for spies on a budget.
Recorder
Recording information can be crucial to a mission’s success. While voice recording accommodates more than just spies, it’s still a useful basic spy staple. There are other apps, like Jott, VoiceNotes, and Ecconote, that do the same thing.
Google Latitude
Coordinate your mission with your contacts by having everybody’s location fed real-time to a Google Maps display. This app isn’t quite ready yet, but it is being developed.
iFirstAid
An injury left untreated can slow down your mission. Get information about poison, choking, stings, bleeding, burns, and more. This is stuff you should know, but the app sure helps if you don’t!
Google Earth
Far from being useful to only spies, Google Earth is still the poor man’s satellite support. See and read the upcoming terrain, and plan your approach.
Safety Button
About to do something dangerous? This app traces your steps and saves them when you start up the software, and has one big help button to push when you’re in trouble. The app will then contact a chosen friend (asset, ally, etc.) with your current position.
NATO Alphabet
Echo — bravo — zulu — niner. Don’t look like a chump if you have to start busting out NATO alphabet code. Odds are you won’t use this, but it’s good to have just in case.
Lie Detector App
Save time and try to get the truth. While lie detectors are about as pseudoscience as you can get, an app like this still might have a use.
Change Your Caller ID
Fairly self-explanatory. Don’t let your number give away your identity, or rather, change it to what you need it to be.
Edovia Linguo Language Translator
Settle quickly into a new country and translate important phrases to store for later. Includes Arabic, Bulgarian, simplified Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese (Romaji and Kanji), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
Spontaneous Insight: People Search & Background Checks
If you need a quick rundown on a new face, try this app to do a background check, getting criminal records and other potentially critical information.
Mobiscope: Video From Webcams
Turn your iPhone into a command centre, and monitor your video surveillance channels. No need for a sleepy guard with a magazine. Includes saved recordings, motion detection, and email alerts.
Extra mention…
SecureAccess
Shame this tool doesn’t actually work. Some functional fingerprint-based app could have been cool.
Feel free to comment some suggestions for apps to add, in case I’ve missed any!
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By DPBKMB, March 12, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
This is a fun and novel way to group and present some useful iPhone apps, even though most users can’t admit to being a spy.
Note: I believe/remember from law school that electronic recording of someone who has an expectation of privacy is a felony in most states.
A tip of the hat to the guy or gal who had this idea.
FunDave
DPBKMB
By spellathon, March 13, 2009 @ 9:06 am
lol, I am just laughing… cool images… thinking why Apple didn’t think of this
By Q, May 25, 2010 @ 11:56 pm
imagine what you could do with Droid. no limitations. In a world that doesn’t Droid does.