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    Nederlandse Geocaching DVD; Ja of Nee?

    in Starters vragen

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    Je kunt ook een aantal kleine korte introductie filmpjes maken, in bijvoorbeeld Windows Media Player of Quicktime of Real formaat.

    Op een gewone CD (650 - 800 MB) kun je aardig wat filmpjes kwijt en een CD is relatief geodkoop (tov een DVD).

    Dus deze CD als TB in een cache en iedereen kan het ding kopieeren en weer loslaten en eventueel extra kopieen (elders) achter laten. Zo krijgt iedereen tzt een eigen kopie.

     

    Zo maar een idee. :lol1:

    Garmin gaat Mac OS X ondersteunen.

    in Nieuws, Informatie & Polls

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    MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO/January 10, 2006/PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced that it will immediately begin to make its line of GPS and mobile electronics devices compatible with Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger." This makes Garmin the first major GPS designer and manufacturer to announce direct support for Mac OS X.

     

    “We are very excited to be supporting the many tech-savvy Garmin users who are also Mac devotees,” said Min Kao, Garmin Ltd.’s chairman and CEO. “Mac users have been encouraging us to make our GPS units Mac compatible, and we’ve listened. We hope this brings the many benefits of GPS to current Mac users and invites future Apple customers to the Garmin fold.”

     

    "The popularity of Mac OS X is attracting many first time developers to the Mac and driving astonishing innovation," said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We're thrilled to welcome Garmin to the platform and look forward to exciting new applications that take advantage of its GPS-based products and Mac OS X."

     

    Beginning in spring 2006, Garmin will offer a Mac version of its popular Training Center software. Used with Garmin’s line of Forerunner and Edge series of fitness products, the Training Center software lets users plan and analyze workouts. Fitness enthusiasts can create their own workouts or use workout templates that can be downloaded into the unit for any level of personal training. The software also offers interactive analysis tools that will now allow Mac users to chart their performance information like speed, heart rate, cadence, elevation, and pace.

     

    Also in spring 2006, Garmin will make the www.MotionBased.com upload interface Mac compatible. MotionBased.com translates GPS data into performance analysis, online mapping, and route sharing for endurance and outdoor athletes. Data collected by a Garmin GPS device is uploaded to MotionBased.com where time, distance, speed, elevation, cadence, grade, and heart rate analysis is displayed through charts, illustrations, and reports. This activity data can also be displayed as a route and replayed on street, photo, topographic, and elevation maps as well as the popular Google Earth service. Members can also use the TrailNetwork database to seek out and download new activities in their region, to find popular routes while traveling, or to engage in "virtual races" with other MotionBased users.

     

    By the end of 2006, Garmin intends to have made all its popular hardware and software applications Mac OS X compatible. This includes the ability to load MapSource map data to Garmin units via a Mac, as well as waypoint and trip planning applications. Additionally, the Garmin nRoute application will allow Powerbook and iBook users to turn their laptop into a powerful street navigation tool with Garmin’s GPS 10 or GPS 18 sensors.

    Pas op voor nep stenen

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    De Britse geheimedienst heeft de ultieme cache gemaakt, met eigen inhoud en zonder coordinaten. :ph34r:

     

    Het is een zender / ontvanger, waarbij een informant via een handcomputertje (PDA) met WIFI / Bluetooth geheime informatie kan uploaden en een Britse spion even later met hetzelfde soort computertje de informatie weer kan ophalen.

    Voordeel: ze hoeven elkaar niet meer te ontmoeten.

    Nadeel: de batterijen raken op en de tegenpartij komt er een keer achter. :)

     

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    Geocacher voor terrorist aangezien...

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    By Christopher Smith

    ASSOCIATED PRESS

     

    9:57 a.m. January 12, 2006

     

    BOISE, Idaho – Scot Tintsman says he never had any troubles with the law until his girlfriend introduced him to what became his all-consuming passion: the satellite-navigated treasure hunt called geocaching.

    "She got me hooked," said the 33-year-old Idaho man, who faces criminal charges for hanging a green bucket beneath a concrete bridge on a major state highway last September.

     

    His "cache" was placed for other players to find using handheld Global Positioning System units. But before he could even finish adding the requisite trinkets and log books to the cache and posting its GPS coordinates on the Internet, it was indeed discovered – by a state bridge inspection crew.

     

    That triggered a seven-hour road closure and emergency response from officials who feared a bomb had been rigged to the bridge.

     

    Unaware of the alarm, Tintsman was returning to finish rigging his cache when he rounded a corner on his motorcycle and was confronted by a barricade of police cars and a bomb squad. He struggled to explain that it was all a misunderstanding.

     

    "I got off my bike and three officers approached me very cautiously, hands on their holsters," he said. "I was trying to turn off my MP3 player and I think they were worried I was going for a detonator."

     

    Tintsman's case of cache confusion isn't isolated. In November, a suspicious box placed outside the Provo, Utah, police station was blasted by a bomb squad robot. It turned out to be a geocache containing a toy gun, holster and nightstick. Geocachers usually take a trinket from a cache and leave another behind.

     

    In June, a bomb squad in De Pere, Wis., used a robot-mounted shotgun to blast the lid off a suspicious-looking military ammunition box found in a park. It also turned out to be a geocache.

     

    And on the night before the 2004 presidential election, police and the FBI spent hours questioning a man who was seen prowling along a chain-link fence at Los Angeles International Airport with a GPS unit. He was a geocacher from Vermont trying to stash a green-and-purple toy snake into a cache placed five weeks earlier that had already been visited by 463 people.

     

    Guidelines on www.geocaching.com – the most popular Web clearinghouse for registering geocache hides and finds – advise players not to place caches near critical infrastructure or public buildings that might be terrorist targets. And with more than 1 million people worldwide estimated to participate in the sport, geocaching.com co-founder Bryan Roth of Seattle says the number of homeland security false-alarms is comparatively low.

     

    "I dare say I have heard of no more than five or 10 incidents," said Roth, whose Web site currently lists more than 225,000 caches in 219 countries. "Police can always contact us and we'll tell them whether something is a registered geocache. And if they're still not comfortable with that, we tell them to blow it up. We don't want to be legally or, more importantly, morally liable if it indeed was a problem."

     

    Many in the online community of geocachers fear that the sport could be banned from some areas because of the high-profile scares caused by ill-advised cache placements. A "Geocacher's Creed" has been posted on the Internet that asks participants to "avoid causing disruptions or public alarm."

     

    Even when geocachers cause public alarm, criminal repercussions appear to be rare. In the case of Tintsman, whose geocache was attached high above the whitewater of Idaho's Payette River on the span of Rainbow Bridge, the local prosecutor filed a charge of placing debris on public property, a misdemeanor with a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $300 fine.

     

    "It's like littering," said Valley County Attorney Matthew Williams. "Any statute with intent wouldn't work, because he clearly didn't intend it to be a bomb, and any statute with malicious injury to property wouldn't work, because he didn't injure the bridge."

     

    Williams said he is not seeking jail time for Tintsman, who has yet to appear before a judge. But he would like to get restitution for the expense of the law enforcement and public safety response.

     

    "I by no means want to see people stop geocaching because I know people who enjoy hiking with their families to find these things," said Williams. "But this was an unnecessary drain on our emergency resources by someone who should have followed the rules of the sport."

     

    Tintsman's attorney, Joe Filicetti of Boise, said he's hoping to reach a deal with Williams that doesn't involve criminal sanctions. Tintsman said he is still avidly geocaching – but is now more aware of how the caches may appear in a post-Sept. 11 landscape.

     

    "I wasn't thinking about terrorism when I placed it under the bridge. I was thinking about making the most extreme cache possible," he said. "I just got carried away."

     

    :beerchug:LINK :rolleyes:

    Google Earth for Mac OS 10.4+

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    Google Earth is er nu ook voor de Macintosh.

    Het is 10-1-2006 beschikbaar gekomen.

    Nog steeds beta en heeft nog wat foutjes, maar het begin is er.

     

    http://earth.google.com/downloads.html

     

    Minimum configuration for Mac:

     

    Mac OS X (10.4)

    500Mhz

    256M RAM

    400MB disk space

    Network speed: 128Kbits/sec

    3D-capable video card with 16Mbytes of VRAM

    1024x768, "16-bit High Color" screen

     

    Recommended configuration for Mac:

     

    Mac OS X (10.4)

    1.5GHz+

    512M RAM

    2 GB of free disk space

    Network speed: 768 Kbits/sec or better (DSL/Cable)

    3D-capable video card with 32 MB of VRAM or greater

    1280x1024, "32-bit True Color" screen

    Eerste Galileo

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    Betekend dit dat het US GPS systeem voor ons onbruikbaar wordt ?

    Dat is dan het einde van geocaching...

     

    De komst van Galileo gaat niet onopgemerkt aan de USA Militairen voorbij. Ze moeten ook wat nieuws gaan doen:

    "With the rapidly emerging prospect of an altered and competitive environment, the task force believes that the government should be prepared to consider alternative means of funding and governance structures better to sustain international support for GPS."

    De militairen willen dus niet meer alle kosten op zich nemen en zoeken in de richting van iets dat vergelijkbaar is met wat wij hier in Europa doen.

    Je kan het allemaal lezen in een lijvig document The Future of the Global Positioning System Defense Science Board Task Force.

    Ze zien hun toekomst duister in:

    "Without significant DoD movement on GPS, the introduction of Galileo may marginalize GPS to an expensive military use only system."

    En waar ze echt wakker van liggen:

    "If Galileo or some other GRNSS becomes deployed and its penetration of the worldwide civil market proceeds as planned, some of the critical infrastructure functions could be enabled by a GRNSS which is potentially outside US control and influence."

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