What good is spending $200K on a land yacht if you end up RVing down a scary rut road that winds through the middle of Deliverance country? Sure, you could buy one of those huge atlases that they sell at every truck stop on the interstate, but this is the middle of 2011! Any self-respecting [...]
Tag Archives: GPS
The SCOUT Toolkit Lightens Field Service Reps’ Loads
Do you need to locate, acquisition and verify satellite links? Probably not unless you have a military title before your name or you deal in some kind of surveying industry; if that describes you, then this is probably news you’ll welcome: Coolfire Solutions has just introduced SCOUT, a Satellite Communications Operational User Toolkit which has [...]
Geocachers: A Secret Society Stalking Your Streets
There’s a secret society stalking your streets, peering behind bushes and rummaging through parks. They work in the dead of night, or boldly move at high noon. These stealthy denizens are known to leave suspicious packages around public parks and quiet neighborhoods, and yet nobody tries to stop them. Using the latest in GPS and [...]
Review: Magellan Premium Car Kit and iOS App for iPhone and iPod touch
My iPhone makes a great portable GPS system. This is particularly important because my car does not have a built-in GPS system, and my daily work has me going to a variety of locations with which I am not always familiar. Using the iPhone as a GPS works rather well for the most part. It [...]
iPhone App Review: Localscope GPS App
Ever since the iPhone has had a built in GPS, location based applications have been useful and popular. I have personally looked at many of these apps and love to see the innovations developers are able to come up with. Of course, it was just a matter of time before these apps started integrating with [...]
CES: Magellan Goes Big With 7″ RoadMate 9055 Auto GPS
The world of auto GPS units has gone through many changes in the short life of the product. Newer versions of the technology provides an ever expanding amount of travel information. I personally have gone from using a GPS unit to using my phone and am contemplating going back. I think I preferred having a [...]
Nike Introduces the Nike+ SportWatch
Garmin has been the undisputed leader of GPS running watches for several years. Timex and Polar have similar devices, but neither has captured running hearts quite like the Garmin Forerunner line. Nike has the “poor man’s Garmin” with their Nike+ system, and at CES they stepped it up with a new GPS-based Nike watch. According [...]
Magellan Announces New eXplorist 310 Rugged GPS!
One of our favorite family activities is going for long hikes. We have a few trails we love in the area, but we’re always debating how far we’ve gone; was that one mile or two? Are we on trail a or trail b? Are you SURE this was the way back to the car? In [...]
TeleNav Launches MyTies, a Free, Location-Based, Private Social Networking App for the iPhone
I don’t love Facebook. I use it but I don’t love it. It is too open for my tastes… even with the privacy features cranked up. I like Twitter and find myself using it more and more. It is open but feels like there is more, or at least different, control you can have on [...]
iPhone Accessory Review: Magellan ToughCase for iPhone 3G/3GS and iPod Touch
I’ll admit it. I’m tough on my electronic devices – especially my phones. After a couple of years with me the cases are usually scuffed and marked. Amazingly, I’ve been lucky and not had major problems with screen scratches (even though I do NOT use screen protectors). I think my phones survive, however, because I [...]
Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments Announce Transcend, the World’s First Heads Up Display Alpine Goggles
Image courtesy of Recon Instruments Just because it’s that time of the year to get your argyle sweaters and one piece vinyl ski suit out doesn’t meet you have to leave your gadgets at home. Recon Instruments in conjunction with Zeal Optics wants to up the ante this year by releasing the world’s first Alpine [...]
Review: Rightway 550 GPS Keeps You On Track Without Breaking Your Wallet
Image courtesy of Rightway Portable GPS units are a dime a dozen these days; I think I even saw them for sale the last time I ran in to the local 7-11 for a slurpee. A few years ago I remember the GPS boom with the 3.5″ TomTom’s flying on the shelves on Black Friday [...]
Always Late? TeleNav’s OnMyWay for iOS and Android Can Help
When I was at TeleNav’s Waypoint in February they showed us a neat little app called OnMyWay. We saw an early build and were told that it was… well, it was OnTheWay. Well now it is here and it is available for free. OnMyWay is a great app for those of us who actually like [...]
Does Your GPS Have a Tone, or Is It All In Your Head?
I have road rage issues. I tend to get very frustrated by traffic and being lost; unfortunately, I live in New Jersey and have what amounts to a completely inverted sense of direction. So it’s not uncommon to find myself stuck in traffic in a strange place, while trying to calm my frustrations…and then the [...]
Men, Women and Cars- New Survey Reveals What’s Similar and What’s Not
photo credit: PDXdj New national survey data gives an interesting, and at times frightening, picture of the driving habits of the genders. On the good side of things, 89% of women and 83% of men report having a clean driving record for the past two years. On a more neutral front while 25% of women [...]
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