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Articles in the month of February 2010

Good news from Navionics !

navionicsMy article on the iPad as future device for iNavX, I expressed the commercial position of Navionics about installing their charts on a single device (Read the answer quoted by Amanda Holt).

Well, Navionics has to change its attitude and it's great !

Navionics now allows two activations their charts and maps bought from their X-Traverse.com website. (Read more…)

The Garmin and the Mac

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Garmin GPSMAP 421

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GPSMAP 76CX

Some information and Richard Ray remarks on the connection with Garmin GPS and GPSNavX MacENC can enlighten those of you who have these devices. Not having had the opportunity to personally test these connections, I will translate them as they, in quotation : (Read more…)

Connect Furuno GP32 to your Mac

Furuno GP32To connect a GP32 (31 or 30) with a Mac or PC, we must first strip the free end of the cable connector 6 pin contains the data wires, in addition to positive and negative power wires. The diagram below shows the principles of wiring.

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iPhone : a handbearing compass in Augmented Reality

Compass ARNo sooner had posted the article on my favorite apps for iPhone, that the German developer CONVELOP put on the AppStore a free application that immediately attracted me : Compass AR. AR for Augmented Reality.

Yachtsmen my friends, many of you, like me, sometimes continue to get the position using a handbearing compass. And rightly AR Compass turns your iPhone into a handbearing compass. But beware : iPhone 3G only equipped with the GPS and electronic compass. (Read more…)

Print charts with GPSNavX / MacENC

Both applications offer direct printing of screen content. It is very convenient to print a chart, whatever the scale used to screen. Actually, Print this concerns only the chart content visible on screen, excluding pop-up windows. Generally it must first choose a print in landscape, and then use the menu File > Print.

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Direct printing with GPSNavX

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The voice of the shipping forecast

The shipping forecast, or rather I should write : Marine Weather, with uppercase, is for modern mariners what was ancient gods for our distant ancestors : a permanent reference to the conduct of our lives.

The Long Waves

Not so long ago, This deity addressed us, marine trade, fishermen and boaters, by a heavenly voice carried by the waves. Our High Priestess, Marie-Pierre Planchon, informing us twice a day for, happy or fearful, that we might know as we venture over the waves. In that time the weather had a name and a voice, recognizable at once ear. (Read more…)