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Originally posted by CacheCows:
At last years picnic, all of the caches were made available by WGA as TODO lists. … I don’t know if WGA is doing that for the campout, I hope so… you could ask over on the campout thread.
OK, this really may not belong in this forum, but what the heck…
Yes, we will be providing the lists of day and night temporary caches as Palm To Do lists, basically in the same format we used at the 2002 Picnic.
Why To Do lists? Mostly because To Do is a built-in Palm app, and therefore we don’t have to worry about people not having a specific reader app installed. It also makes it easy to check off caches once they are found.
Okay. Thanks to this thread, and some generous people that I work with, I now have a PDA (somebody’s old one that still worked) and know pretty well how to get cache information into it. I would be willing to share the details / downloads witn anybody else who wants to do this. All I have to say regards to paperless Geocaching is: It is *really* *really* *really* cool. I used it at the campout and on a couple of other caches and it worked out better than I could have imagined. My advice: Ask around for an old used one. Chances are somebody somewhere has one sitting in the bottom of their desk drawer that they are no longer using. Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread.
I also have a question about pda’s. I am looking at the Palm Zire. They say it’s a bare bones type pda which is what I want. Is it possible to be to bare boned? What is the bare minnimum I would need to download caches? Do they all come with the basic software needed to run the programs mentioned above?
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Originally posted by Geotrippers:
They say it’s a bare bones type pda which is what I want. Is it possible to be to bare boned?I’m guessing that by “Bare-Boned” they mean that you get a working PDA without extra foo-foos like a color screen, camera, MP3 player, memory expansion, Bluetooth, cellphone, etc.
As long as it runs the PalmOS (which it does) you will be able to run any of the Geocaching-related apps.
The Zire only has 2MB of memory, so you won’t be able to load up 1000s of waypoints at one time, but you should be able to get enough in there to cover a good-sized radius around wherever you go to cache.
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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
As long as it runs the PalmOS (which it does) you will be able to run any of the Geocaching-related apps.
Not to start one of those MAC vs PC type discussions, but I use a PocketPC (not Palm OS). I use Spinner that sends its output directly to the PDA (no Plucker like intermediate). I dropped my PALM a few years back from a table top — total write-off, and thats when I switched.
I didn’t buy it specifically for geocaching (geocaching hadn’t been invented yet), more expensive, ties to Bill Gates, but it works for me.
If I could find a B&W PocketPC device so that the batteries lasted weeks and not hours, I might give it a serious look. Until then though, I prefer a B&W Palm device for geocaching.
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