It's much harder to put together a 5 Apps post for the Zombie Apocalypse than you might think. Do we focus on serious topics like first aid, or do we try to inject a little humor like Plants vs. Zombies for "training skills"? In the end, we came to the conclusion that this was simply too complex a topic to limit to just five app titles. We give you five app topics instead -- and we've skipped the entertainment component. In that spirit of deadly serious preparedness training, we give you "5 App Categories for the Zombie Apocalypse." First Aid The app store is brimming with first aid applications. We liked the free Know-it-All First Aid refresher app, which seems to have plenty of good reviews and cover the basics. Other well-reviewed apps included Pocket First Aid and CPR ($3.99), and Emergency First Aid & Treatment Guide ($0.99). Emergency health response Read More

4 Dec 2010 alle 12:42 Phone Aid 1,59 Health & Fitness Durante una partita scolastica di Basket, Xavier Jones, un ragazzo di 17 anni ha avuto un collasso e si è accasciato a terra privo di sensi. A salvarlo è stato il suo coach grazie all’applicazione Phone Aid. Il coach del ragazzo, Eric Cooper, dopo aver visto Xavier steso a terra è corso verso di lui e vedendo che il cuore era fermo ha preso il suo iPhone ed ha iniziato a seguire le istruzioni per effettuare una rianimazione, leggendole dall’applicazione Phone Aid. Il tentativo è andato a buon fine ed ora il ragazzo è ricoverato in ospedale, dove gli è stata diagnosticata una malattia al cuore. Non è la prima volta che l’iPhone torna utile per salvare una vita umana, infatti un regista intrappolato nelle macerie dopo il terremoto di Haiti grazie all’applicazione Pocket First Aid e CPR [Link iTunes] Read More

American Heart Assn.'s Pocket First Aid and CPR app. (Jive Media) |By Francesca Lunzer Kritz, Special to the Los Angeles Times "Is there an app for that?" When it comes to consumer healthcare applications for smart phones, the answer, increasingly, is yes. There are now close to 6,000 consumer health apps, according to a review published in March by mobihealthnews, which reports on the mobile health industry, and more are being added every day. Many are free, or cost $1 to $10 to download. Some physicians are concerned about the reliability of the medical information provided by many of these apps, which offer advice and information on a wide array of health topics, including how to find a doctor, first aid for an emergency and exercise instructions. And they worry that consumers could follow an app's guidance for, say, monitoring high blood pressure, and leave it at that — forgoing visits Read More

New reports show that there may be a camera emplacement built into the iPad. Pocket First Aid & CPR has zoomed up the charts since the survivor from the earthquake in Haiti publicized the app. Freeverse has released a new game. Find out what app is in our utility toolbox, and watch the show for your chance to win – cause we love giving stuff away! Read More

by We wrote recently about how Dan Woolley used a medical app on his iPhone to help save his life after being trapped in the rubble after the Haiti earthquake. That program, the American Heart Association’s Pocket First Aid & CPR app [iTunes link], saw its sales skyrocket after the media coverage of Woolley’s experience. AdAge reports that despite the $3.99 first aid app competing with other free and lower-cost medical apps, it climbed from number 97 on the list of top paid apps in the Apple App Store to break the top 50, ultimately peaking at position 49. This is an impressive feat for the non-entertainment app, which rose above perennially popular titles like Shazam and CNN Mobile. While he wouldn’t disclose actual revenue figures from the sales bump, Jive Media co-founder Doug Kent did say, “The sales increase has been pretty dramatic.” He said the app made its way Read More

...Aid iPhone app that Dan Woolley used to survive for 65 hours in Haiti hotel. http://bit.ly/7NqNCw Story: http://bit.ly/5DUvAb... Read More

...sobrevive en Haiti gracias a una aplicación de iphone (via wired) http://bit.ly/4oeWdA la app : http://bit.ly/4R37br... Read More

...@jsalvachua: Increible, sobrevive en Haiti por aplicación de iphone (via wired) http://bit.ly/4oeWdA la app : http://bit.ly/4R37br... Read More

Toen ik voor het eerst het verhaal over de Dan Woolley hoorde dacht ik: “Tja, er zullen ook wel mensen zijn die dankzij een Nokia hulp konden inschakelen toen ze onder het puin van de aardbeving in Haïti lagen”. Maar bij nader inzien blijkt Woolley’s verhaal wel wat meer hout te snijden. De Amerikaanse filmmaker Dan Woolley was bezig met een documentaire over armoede in Haïti toen de aardbeving toesloeg. Dankzij de applicatie Pocket First Aid & CPR wist Woolley hoe hij zijn wonden moest behandelen. De filmmaker raakte bedolven onder een berg puin. Maar Woolley’s verhaal laat zien dat je nooit zonder je favoriete gadgets van huis moet gaan: hij gebruikte zijn digitale DSLR om de omgeving te verlichten en foto’s te maken van de ravage. In een liftkoker zocht hij vervolgens beschutting, waar hij de iPhone-applicatie gebruikte om een knelverband aan te leggen om zijn been en een bloedende Read More