It’s official—SitePoint has gone too far. When your office Christmas party makes newspaper headlines, it’s time to think about toning it down.
(2)Monthly Archive for February, 2007
In my last post, I introduced the TomTom GO 710 GPS receiver (GPSr). I recently bought this device for car navigation but have since found it to be a surprisingly versatile gadget! With the right collection of tweaks and add-ons, it can become a great device for geocaching, and a lot more besides.
In this post, I’ll describe the TomTom GO 710′s on-road navigation features, and offer some useful tips on how to make them better!
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If you’ve been watching my Flickr photos lately, you’ll have noticed that Jess and I are getting into geocaching, the world-wide treasure hunt where participants follow GPS coordinates to the locations of hidden caches of goodies.
The one essential tool for geocaching is a GPS receiver (GPSr), which gave me the perfect excuse to add this long-coveted piece of technology to my car. But finding a unit that would make a good on-road navigator (with good maps, nice screen, useful routing features, and an extensive Points of Interest (POI) database) as well as a good tool for geocaching (offering accurate coordinates and useful off-road navigation features) would prove to be a challenge.
Continue reading ‘Navigation, Geocaching and More with a TomTom GO 710′