Summer was not made for driving around in your car or truck all day long! We all need our own little bit of sunshine to help us get through a long year of hard work and those terrible office lights.
One thing that’ll make your summer activities a lot more (more…)
Ever since GPS technology has become mainstream people have been wondering how they can use it to track things in real time and a few companies have invented some novel devices that allow you to do it.
For clarity we’re going to break the electronics down into two parts.
We have the BEACON which is the part of the system that moves around and relays its’ position to the RECEIVER which shows the user the positional data or whereabouts of the beacon.
There are two basic approaches to relaying the beacon positional data back to the receiver and each of them have (more…)
Sometimes even really big companies make small mistakes that allow you to get their stuff for free and Garmin isn’t above doing that.
We’re not sure on how long Garmin will leave the door open on getting their MapSource for free with no cracks or hacks so you’ll want to do this as soon as you read it.
The first part (more…)
On July 11, 2008 TWENTY ONE countries are going to have access to one of the most revolutionary electronic devices to ever hit the electronic marketplace.
Apple will release the long awaited iPhone 2 in Austrailia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and yes… even in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
It must have taken a lot of pushing, shoving and forcing to pack all the features of the iPhone into just 4.7 ounces (133 grams) of pure technological horsepower.
The iPhone comes with 8 gigs of storage space (16 gigs if you want to go for the high end model) a 3-1/2 inch widescreen display (480×320 @ 163ppi), a 2 megapixel camera that supports Geotagging, Bluetooth, internal (more…)
If you own a Nokia Cellular Phone with built in GPS and don’t know already - you’ll be happy to know that Nokia Maps was updated.
Nokia Maps is available for the Nokia E61, E61i, E65, E90, N70, N72, N73, N76, N93i, N95, the Nokia 6110 Navigator and finally the 6120 Classic.
If you have one of these phones hook it up to your computer and get some updates! You’ll need the Nokia Map Loader which can be (more…)
There’s a few places on the internet that offer FREE (as in beer) user generated maps for Garmin GPS owners. Of course nothing replaces a comprehensive map database but if you’re planning on traveling to foreign lands check out these maps to see if they’ll get you around to where you want to go - it might save you a few bucks in buying a whole map disc that you might not even use.
First here’s a couple of sites with a lot of maps:
Map Center
Free Garmin GPS Maps
Here’s some more sites with specific location maps.
Australia - Tracks for Australia
Canada - Canadian ‘eh’ Topo Maps
Caribbean - This maps site has maps of Japan, Bermuda and Antarctica too.
China - Yunnan Explorer
Greece - Greece GPS Maps
Morocco - Maps of Morocco
New Zealand - The New Zealand Open GPS project
South America - Argentina and Uruguay with some more countries on the way.
If you don’t have it already you’ll need a utility to help you get your .img files to your Garmin GPS you can download Img2GPS to help you along with that.
Don’t forget that a lot of these projects are all driven by public contribution, if you think you can help the project in some way don’t be too shy to send them an inquiry.
