One of the things I like best about the electronics market these days is the real usability of some of the products that are coming out. When I’m talking about usability I’m not referring to the entertainment value of any particular product – I’m referring to the actual use of the electronic device to help [...]

A lot of devices with the Windows Mobile operating system are coming out GPS enabled as well. A lot of times they don’t even come with the software to handle the GPS part of things. I recently purchased some GPS software for my Windows Mobile OS based device and believe that this is some of [...]

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 [...]

There are so many different types of GPS devices on the market today – all with great price tags and they all do some pretty awesome things. I’ve picked the Garmin iQue 3600 PDA with built in GPS, the HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion and the Garmin eTrex Venture HC Handheld GPS to compare. Here [...]

You studied your destination and picked a waypoint to load into your GPS from Google Earth. You have your GPS and you’re now invincible, you throw away your outdated compass and start trekking out into the bush to do some real exploration. Walking out to places where no man has gone bef… Walking out to [...]

I’ve had my Trimble Juno ST for about 4 months now and I’m really impressed by the features it has. I use it in a professional environment to help me perform some of the tasks associated with my work. The Juno is basically a handheld mobile computer running the MS Mobile 5 operating system with [...]