Changing the voice file on a Garmin or TomTom GPS these days has become something you can do in just a few minutes. It takes no longer than the time it takes to load up your iPod or MP3 player with your choice tunes. If you’re going on a road trip with the guys you’ll [...]
UPDATE: This article is dated! There is now Magellan GPS Software for the iPhone and it actually looks pretty good! Finally something good from Magellan, but it’s not GPS hardware. There’s been a lot of rumors going around that “turn by turn” navigational software will become available for the iPhone very soon – but so [...]
Since Mac has been scraping together more and more of the computer market share with every passing day I thought that I’d check out just which GPS manufacturers were willing to recognize the aggressively rising popularity in the OS X operating system. My goal was not to find out which GPS devices could with a [...]
It’s pretty cool that both the TomTom and the Garmin let you change the voice files at your every whim if you want. It’s so easy to do that you can have someone different tell you where to go every day. It’s not only my GPS that’s telling me where to go, I hear it [...]
This has to be one of the most awesome Instructables I’ve ever seen and a lot of thanks goes out to Sudija for sharing this with everybody. I’m guessing that Sudija uses a motorbike as his main means of transportation and has a GPS device that doesn’t have Bluetooth capabilities. He’s come up with a [...]
You gotta tweak your stuff so don’t think that your GPS can’t be tweaked to your liking. One thing you can start with on your Garmin GPS is a changing of the voice. UPDATE: Garmin has also put out their own software tool to create your own custom voices for Garmin GPS devices. Find out [...]