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Review: TeleNav Shotgun internet connected personal navigation device

Last week TeleNav announced their new Shotgun personal navigation device PND. The Shotgun takes the tried and true TeleNav navigation software (found on many carrier phones as AT&T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, etc.) and places it on a very nice piece of hardware. I was sent an evaluation unit to check...

Tags: Destination, Device, Internet, Shotgun, TeleNav Shotgun, Display, ETA, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-17

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Mapyx Quo 2.1.3 (Windows)

Quo is an intuitive, easy to learn and, surprisingly simple-to-use digital mapping program which enables you to connect your GPS to your PC and manage all your waypoints, routes and tracks. View information such as elevation, distance, speed, ETA and many more. Quo supports numerous formats: Google Earth KML (*.kml),...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mapyx, Quo, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

StormPredator 3.4 (Windows)

StormPredator displays personal near real-time NEXRAD doppler radar images as well as watches and warnings for any USA location on your PC desktop on colorful 3D Topographic maps. SP3 Includes exclusive storm tracker and predictor tools, plus personal scan zone & distance measuring tools that helps you track storms, predict...

Tags: Cell Phone, Microsoft Windows, Radar, ItWorks, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2009-11-08

Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]

Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Droid, Droid, Apple iPhone, Revisiting, music, Verizon Communications Inc., Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

(Photos: Hubble's newest visions of space)

Um... iron and nitrogen in Eta Carinae?If that's supposed to refer to the emission lines in the spectrum, they're labelled Ni, which is the chemical symbol for nickel, not nitrogen. Nitrogen's symbol is just plain N.

Tags: Nitrogen, vision, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

ViewRanger GPS (for touchscreens) (Mobile)

ViewRanger turns your phone into a fully-featured off-road satnav with detailed topographic mapping. This pack includes tokens to download topographic maps directly to your phone.ViewRanger is ideal for tourists, walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, horse riders, geocachers, river boaters - in fact anyone who enjoys the outdoors.Topographic map data available with...

Tags: Touch Screen, Facebook, Phone, Mobile, Photograph, Token, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-22

Why you should care about Apple's Snow Leopard

How about security?Update: I have answered my own questions with the precious few details found here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/Are there any security improvements in Snow Leopard? yes, a fewWill the NX/DEP finally be switched on in Safari and all other internet facing programs?Presumably it will be switched on for 64bit programs. All...

Tags: OSX, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

SweNav Nautic LITE 1.0 (Mobile)

SweNav Nautic LITE is the Windows phone application to use for any nautic navigation purpose. Advanced navigation features are included and displayed in four different main user views panels, including full support for custom waypoints, Man-Over-Board functionality and sea charts. - Navigation panel - showing: latitude, longitude, ETA, GPS-time. -...

Tags: Panel, Mobile, Izaxon, SweNav Nautic LITE, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-07

SweNav Nautic Pro 1.0 (Mobile)

SweNav Nautic PRO is the Windows phone application to use for any nautic navigation purpose. Advanced navigation features are included and displayed in four different main user views panels, including full support for custom waypoints, Man-Over-Board functionality and sea charts. - Navigation panel - showing: latitude, longitude, ETA, GPS-time. -...

Tags: Panel, Mobile, Izaxon, SweNav Nautic PRO, Sea Chart, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-26

Google: The cloud is cheaper

Google: The cloud is cheaperBad choice of article headline... "The cloud is cheaper"Like Walmart and Windows laptops, cheaper does not in any way mean better.My new Walmart belt has frayed after 5 wearings and I had to use a black market because the black coating came up and I...

Tags: Virtualization, Databases, GOOGLE cloud computing, Google Inc., cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

HTC Touch Cruise (unlocked)

Navigation capabilities on smartphones are becoming an increasingly popular feature, and it's almost gotten to the point where a handset is scoffed at if it doesn't include GPS. Well, HTC is taking the concept to another level with its HTC Touch Cruise series by shipping the smartphone with full navigation...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, GPS, High Tech Computer Corp., Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-04-29

myFingertips 1.0 (Mobile)

myFingertips is a new way of using your iPod or iPhone. The application accesses the powerful location services built in to the device and presents users with a comprehensive readout showing, speed, heading, altitudeon supported devices. myFingertips allows you to save information about any location for later retrieval. myFingertips allows...

Tags: Mobile, myFingertips, Productivity, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Storage, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-20

Garmin nuvifone G60 details trickle out

Engadget reports that it has been a year since Garmin announced the nuvifone and that we still don't have a price or ETA on the highly-anticipated device. What we do have is a few more nuggets on what the nuvifone G60 will pack: ...

Tags: Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvifone, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Voyage Distance 2.0 (Windows)

Voyage Distance is a work platform for voyage planning, port distance calculating, multi-voyage activity monitoring, and flexible routing.It can also design routes freely,draw routes casually by yourself when design mode is activated.Include thousands of ports on world map.Group voyages into favorite categories and make all voyages easy to manage.Input ports...

Tags: Calculation, BoLooMo, Voyage Distance, Microsoft Windows, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-15

ViewRanger (Mobile)

ViewRanger turns your phone into a fully-featured off-road satnav with detailed topographic mapping. This pack includes tokens to download topographic maps directly to your phone.ViewRanger is ideal for tourists, walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, horse riders, geocachers, river boaters - in fact anyone who enjoys the outdoors.Topographic map data available with...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Mobile, Photograph, Token, ViewRanger, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-09-23

Dell repair adventure, day 5

Dell repair adventure, day 5No Backup!I find it hard to believe that a IT consultant, one that finds it necessary to attend conferences does not have a backup options in place. A) Is the writer a independent contractor? I guess that I need more information about the writers...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

2009 Mercedes-Benz SL550

Photo gallery:2009 Mercedes-Benz SL550Maybe we've been driving too many very nice cars lately, but the 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL550 didn't excite us much when it arrived in the garage. It's hard to follow acts like the Maserati GranTurismo and the BMW M6, and we tend to like shorter, more nimble sports...

Tags: Mercedes-Benz SL550, Mercedes-Benz, Nuvi 880

Product reviews 2008-08-29

2008 BMW M6 Coupe

Photo gallery:2008 BMW M6As in other current M models from BMW, the 2008 BMW M6 is afflicted with a dual personality. It masquerades as a big luxury coupe around town, but when the roads open up, the M6 can transform into a superhero. At a push of the M button...

Tags: BMW M6, BMW AG, Crissy Field

Product reviews 2008-08-19

uTorrent silently patches critical vulnerability

uTorrent silently patches critical vulnerabilityWow, 2 years old?And this is the first anyone is hearing about it. The first time I am personally hearing about it, anyway. I expect if this flaw was being exploited, then there would have been a patch much sooner.1.8 final is already out.Btw, 1.8 final...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, patch management

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

WordPress client for iPhone released

Excellent news for bloggers came a few weeks ago when WordPress announced that they're developing a client application for the iPhone. WordPress posted a note on their blog yesterday stating that they’ve successfully uploaded the application to the iTunes Store, and that it's in a status of...

Tags: Blogging, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Digital Music, Internet, jason D. O'Grady, Marketing, Personal Technology, Wordpress, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2008-07-21