Google maps have gone mobile, meaning anyone with a data-capable mobile phone is now bereft of excuses for not finding their way home from the pub. If don't have a bling phone with excesses of screen real estate, your old phone should do just fine if your pair it with your Palm (.prc here) or Pocket PC (.cab here) and Google's PDA software. It's like "GPS Lite" for those who already know where they are!
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Jeff Fort read my post concerning the installation of TomTom POI from a Mac. Jeff is into geocaching, and asked if I knew a way to get waypoints into TomTom Navigator 5 on his Palm from his Mac. While I'd heard of Geotagging (with reference to tagging images with GPS co-ordinates), my first step was to find out something about geocaching. Then I could start looking at the problem...
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The world has too many video formats. We mere mortals are dazzled by the cacophony of audio codecs, video codecs, and file containers. Too frequently the "same" format becomes incompatible as you move from one player to another, or go cross-platform. Some Windows Media files play fine on Windows, yet trip up Windows Media Player for Mac. An MPEG-4 file made on a Mac may not play on a Windows machine. Your QuickTime files on the desktop become wasted space on the SD card in your Palm or Pocket PC. Now we have the iPod that does video, with a predilection for H.264.
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Some 8 months ago I chose Navman over a TomTom GPS solution for Palm for several reasons that seemed valid at the time. Since then TomTom have released Navigator 5, and Navman have discontinued support for Palm. Curiosity got the better of me, and now that I've tried TomTom I've come to realise the true extent of the Navman's failings. I bought Navigator 5 and Great Britain maps (i.e. software only) on eBay, and used this with my existing Navman 4400 GPS Bluetooth receiver.
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With the release of The Missing Sync for Palm version 5, getting data from your Mac desktop to your Palm (and vice versa) has become a more streamlined process. For those using Mac OS X 10.4.x MS does away with Apple's basic HotSync conduit for iSync, using Tiger Sync Services instead. The results are mostly pleasing.
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Pocket PCs can now do VGA i.e. 640 x 480 pixels—at least with third-party software. Here are three screen captures that provide pretty convincing proof of how useful this can be. They show a PDF instruction manual for a Seiko watch as viewed on the Palm T3 (480 x 320 pixel screen; Acrobat Reader displays non-native documents at 160 x 160 resolution) and on a Dell X50v (native PDF at semi-VGA and "real" VGA resolution). If a picture says a thousand words, here are 3000 on the difference...
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