2010 03 26 – It has been an interesting few days
I say interesting few days. But maybe only interesting to me. A few geocaching things didn’t work out this week. If it happened to you, you would probably say it was no big deal, but I tend to be a...
View ArticleGarmin Birdseye to yield satellite images
I was looking to obtain some new maps for my Garmin GPS when I stumbled upon this. Apparently Garmin is going after something Delorme has had for awhile: the ability to put satellite images/maps on...
View ArticleSatellite Imagery
For some of you, you might be interested to know a little bit more about how you can get satellite imagery onto your own GPS. Well recently I have been doing a lot of research in this particular...
View ArticlePilgrimage to Seattle Part I: The Preparation
In less than a month, I’ll be heading to Seattle, WA to attend GeoWoodstock VIII. This years annual mega event is being held in Washinton state to celebrate the 10 years of geocaching. This year many...
View ArticleSolving a puzzle cache with brute force
I am not one for puzzle caches. In fact, as a general rule I avoid them. Most times it’s simply because I really suck at trying to solve them. But every once in awhile I do one or go out with someone...
View ArticleGSAK Tips & Tricks Event (Moncton)
Please note that I changed the date of my GSAK event last week to Jan. 16th instead of Jan. 15. This site still has it posted as Jan. 15. The event will take place in room 476 of the Taillon building...
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A quick guide to designing wherigos
Wherigos are much maligned for a few reasons, the least of which being that they are difficult to design. At the heart of this problem is the terrible, terrible Groundspeak Wherigo Builder. It is truly...
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Geocaching Droid Army knife
I downloaded a new “FREE” Android app for geocaching named Geocaching Droid Army Knife or GDAK. It is a sister program for GSAK on your phone which enables you to have your complete GSAK database...
View ArticleGSAK Database Maintenance Questions
Ok, so I jumped on the bandwagon of trying to keep an offline GSAK database of all the caches in NB. It seems to be going fine but here’s the question I have… How exactly do you keep this thing up to...
View ArticleThe Technical Side Of Geocaching
As part of an effort of mine to highlight some of the lesser focused aspects of geocaching, I thought this time around I’d hit up on the topic of some of the more “technical” aspects to geocaching. By...
View ArticleGAPP – Global Application Geocaching Software
Globalcaching Application (short GAPP) is a free geocache manager application that enables you to browse and maintain geocaches on your local computer. GAPP is Geocaching Live enabled which makes it...
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