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No big deal here. Although we did a couple, it never really caught on with us. We won’t be losing any sleep over their demise.
We were just talking about doing that some time in November, but that weekend is already booked for us. Sounds like fun-we’ll watch for your logs!
We use it with an iPod, so we can’t speak to the turn-by-turn question. However, we have used it quite a bit with Geosphere for caching, and it’s worked well. Generally, it seems more accurate than the Garmins we’ve used for several years. We haven’t given it any tests of its waterproof claims, but we did hear of a cacher recently who had a bad experience in this area (it turned out not to be waterproof and his iPod was damaged as a result). We also used it with the Geocaching.com app and our wireless device for caching “on the fly”, where no caches were preloaded and had pretty good luck with that, too. It’s battery life is a little short for a long day of caching, so a car charger would be a good idea. All in all, for $99, we’re pretty satisfied. We just don’t plan to let it get too wet.
Well, we just spent a little time playing around with this and we might have it figured out!
So, let’s say one does do 100+ finds in a day. Doing the logs is a pain, even with copying and pasting. We’ve seen references to using a GSAK feature (macro?) that can expedite this process. Can anyone shed some light on exactly how this is done?
@maskinwi wrote:
I’m looking at a 265 and a 760 right now. Do you use thwe nuvi to get you there and than a hand held to finish the job?
Yep-That’s exactly how we use it.
We love our Nuvi 1450T. It works great for driving to caches and for general on-road navigation.
Sounds like a good change. This has been a pet peeve of ours for a long time. Way too many cache hiders don’t seem to understand what 1-star terrain means.
We noticed that one of the finders even teletransported themselves to North Carolina to log a find on a 5 star puzzle cache. We say delete their logs. There’s no need to tippy-toe around and worry about hurting their feelings. Who knows how many times they’ve gotten away with this garbage in the past?
@djwini wrote:
i’m looking at the ipod touch, so i don’t think the actual geocaching feature will work. (no 3g connection)
how does it work for looking up the cache information? i’m using a palm pilot and cachemate to get my cache info now, but the palm is dying.We went from a Palm and Cachemate to a Touch with an app called Geosphere, which works great. We also have the Groundspeak app and prefer Geosphere. It seems easier to use and we like how the features are organized. It is a big improvement over Cachemate. We also pair it up with a gadget by Magellan called a Toughcase. The iPod goes inside and the Toughcase adds a gps function to the app. We’ve found quite a few caches with it and found the accuracy to be pretty good. It runs off a rechargable battery, though, and our only criticism is that the battery life is not as good as we’d like. We always have another GPSr with us as a backup. All in all, it works pretty well for the $99 the Toughcase cost.
It appears that it does happen, but we would not do that.
You can just use the same registration number on your new computer that you used to register on your old one. Clyde is fine with using the program on as many computers as you want as long as you own them all. If you don’t have the number, there is a way to get it, but I don’t remember how to do that exactly. If you look a bit, I’m sure you’ll see something about how to do it.
Congratulations on your milestone! 🙂
We had to ditch our Palm with the purchase of a new computer, too. It seems Palm and Windows7 don’t see eye to eye (not sure if that’s changed now). Anyway, we use the Geosphere app on an iPod Touch and love it. We recently added a Magellan Toughcase ($99) to give the Touch GPS functionality and it actually works quite well.
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