Posts Tagged ‘gps

20Jun

Navigon Mobile Navigator for iPhone is here!

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!WOW, that’s one great app. Navigon is one of the best navigation apps for PDAs and car mounted GPS systems, and now it’s here for the iPhone:

Get it in the iTunes Store:
It comes with maps for all european countries, and the price of EUR 75 is certainly ok for that. It will take [...]

04Aug

iPhone 3G order: cancelled

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Yeah, I know what you’re saying. But let me explain:
T-Mobile took my order without being able to give the slightest indication of a delivery date. Meanwhile I have been trying to sell my 16 GB 1st Gen. iPhone on eBay, without success. Starting end of June, I’ve had 3 buyers bail out (more on that [...]

03Jun

Map your home town: openstreetmap.org

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

I have a new hobby: fighting the monopoly of GPS navigation map vendors Navteq and TeleAtlas.
From openstreetmap.org:
“OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back [...]

01Mar

CD-R on the deathbed, DVD next

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Just read on Twitter: Hard drives cheaper than CD-Rs (in comparison) – CD-Rs just not worth the hassle.
True, when you think about it. Just got an external 160 GB 2.5″ drive for EUR 69.
My new car has a GPS system with a DVD drive. Wouldn’t it be a LOT cheaper for the manufacturer to shove [...]

Urgh…
I’m not sure if I’d consider this good taste: only 6 days after CNET runs a James Kim obituary, they do an article on GPS devices that bears, of all things, the title “Livesaving tech“. How appropriate.
Then it goes on in the test:
“GPS devices might not help you get rescued if you’re lost, but [...]

14Feb

Google Running logs

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Here’s one for Martin:
“Google Running Logs is a software package that lets you automatically upload your runs from a GPS watch (like the Garmin Forerunner 201 or 301) to your web site to be displayed in a nifty Google Map. The map will show an animated view of your runs showing mile markers, pace per [...]


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