March 11, 2010
An important aspect of geocaching is the use of travel bugs, an item with a serial number trackable through the geocaching.com website. ...
- We’ve been talking about Motorola’s attempt at GPS navigation system – Motonav – for a while now. It looks like we now have an official model name that is going to be released soon. It is called Motonav TN765, or N765t. People at Ubergizmo had a chance to play with the device before their review and the first impression doesn’t sound so bad. What makes the Motonav N765t special is the 5.1″ cinematic display which is wider than any other wide screen GPS...
- With topics ranging from Custom Maps to custom icons , and hints for features such as track navigation and track archiving , my engineering friends in outdoor recreation have been updating the Trail Tech blog to help you get the most out of your Garmin outdoor handheld. Easily accessible through the On The Trail section of Garmin.com, Trail Tech is a hands-on guide to specific features and updates, written by the same brilliant minds who design our innovative handhelds. To give you an idea of...
Lost River Cave and Valley will host a geocaching lecture by expert Danny Bays at 1 pm March 20 in the Geocaching 101 Family Education Series, “Geocaching: ...
- Over the weekend I went for a ride on my time trial (TT) bike for the first time since racing in Dallas last October. The black Beyond Fabrications frame is the same bike I rode in 2007 when I won Amateur Worlds in Germany, but I’ve made a few key upgrades to it. Most recently, I added an SRM Dura-Ace powermeter, which uses ANT+ wireless technology to pair seamlessly with my Garmin Edge 705 . On my road bike I’d been using a Quarq CinQo powermeter for about a year and a half, and I was excited...
Custom messages and waypoints can easily be shared with social networking sites like SPOTadventures.com, Geocaching.com, Twitter, and Facebook. ...
- Garmin has decided to close its San Francisco office, resulting in the loss of most of the team that built MotionBased, the original Garmin Connect platform, which was acquired by Garmin in 2005. A new website, The GC Team , has been posted, saying: On February 8, 2010 Garmin decided to shut down operations at its San Francisco office and move all Garmin Connect product management/development back to headquarters in Olathe, Kansas. For as much as the team in San Francisco loves...