tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37520277244175750132011-11-27T20:07:43.044-05:00This blog is to discuss technology used during your travels.lfllmghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524393616879142997noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752027724417575013.post-79178294713564391412009-04-19T20:21:00.001-04:002009-04-19T20:21:51.595-04:00

I have moved

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My apologies for this post, since it is a little deviation from my prior ones. But if you are like me, you are a bit schizophrenic and follow more than one topic.I have been following my retirement funds and other investments, but then again who isn't, looking for ways to re-balance to get ready for the (hopefully) imminent rebound. Diversify is the key word from from Cramer, Orman, Wong Ulrich

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I found a couple of great comments on http://aplawrence.com/Opinion/my-next-gps.html that triggered some thoughs about making GPS systems smarter. I agree wholeheartedly. As a user, you expect your electronuics to adapt to you, not the other way around.When you are on a known route, maybe at the end of an unknown place after you hit "go home" shouldn't it stop giving you turn-by-turn directions

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I was going to continue along the GPS details, but i found one of the best explanations I've seen. It is written by Brain, Marshall, and Tom Harris and it is titled "How GPS Receivers Work" in HowStuffWorks.com. Take a read if you have the time.http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/gps.htm

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Another important apparatus for the road is the ubiquitous cellphone. Advances in technology have made it easier to carry a phone when you travel overseas. The vast majority of the world has selected the 3GPP standard (GSM) and since 2005 most GSM phones are quad-band, which means they are compatible with most networks around the world. North America is unfortunately the exception.The market is

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I just found the Photo Trackr (what's with the misspelling of words, Razr, Flickr, Trackr). It seems to be a good idea, but 2 misses:1. AA batteries that last 22 hours! Who thought of that? Why not a rechargeable LiION with a USB cable?. I can see a brilliant marketing person saying, "let's save the few bucks on a rechargeable and charger so we can sell it for $99." Wrong. People will pay $10,

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If you ventured to this blog and read my first 2 postings, you're wondering what's going on. Well, let me connect the dots for you.In my ideal camera with GPS we figured that it does not work since you would have to keep your gps on all the time or it will take a very long time to get your location to mark the pic. But if your GPS recevier was connected or even better, part of your cellphone -

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This week I learned TeleNav launched the Shotgun, a connected PND. The advantage of a connected PND is that you can get real time POI updates, traffic, and weather feeds. But more importantly you can get a faster initial fix. This is why:As you know, gps systems work with a constellation of satellites that send time stamps to a receiver. By calculating the time of arrival of those time stamps and

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My pet peeve:How many times have you come home with 25G of pictures and forgot where you took them? Well, you could always take the picture and log the GPS coordinates. It is painful, terribly painful, especially if your PND does not support some kind of "quick fix" technology - most current PNDs don't although that's about to change (more on this on a future post). So why isn't there a good

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