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Navigation Mac tutorials on your iPad

20 th June, 2012
by Francis.
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Since October 2009 to date, Navigation Mac accounts for over 170 posts. Many of them are tutorials, aid to the use of different hardware and software designed for the Apple universe and used for shipping.
A growing number of boaters now uses an iPad at sea. But off, when no network connection is possible, and therefore no more internet access, how to access [...]

VirtualBox : increase the size of virtual disk

24 mar 2011
by Francis.
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VirtualBox on my MacBook I can, for a while, to use some applications unavailable with OSX. In example, applications related to Iridium connection. I produced, from my website, a tutorial video on installing a system on a Mac with Windows 7 VirtualBox.
At the first installation, the application allows to create a default dynamic virtual disk 20 G. The word «dynamic» means that the actual size occupied by the [...]

GPSNavX 6.0 on the Apple App Store

7 Jan 2011
by Francis.
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The first navigation app by Richard Ray is available directly from the App Store since yesterday at price 45 EUR.
The new Apple online shop service for applications is now available with OS X update 10.6.6. A new icon has appeared in the dock for direct access.
GPSNavX is a navigation application dedicated to the raster charting. You can find full details of GPSNavX, its [...]

Navimail 2.1.3, update for the « Nautic »

24 nov 2010
by Francis.
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As 2008 and 2009, Meteo France gives us a new version of the Navimail ² for the « Nautic » (you know, the new name of the Salon Nautique de Paris, it's more « international »).
No functional revolution in this application, but rather technical and cosmetic improvements.

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MacENC, iNavX and TCP / IP

7 August 2010
by Francis.
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Despite the online Help iNavX and various tutorials on the subject, a lot of requests received and complexity of subject imposed on me a quick explanation.
The TCP/IP protocol
TCP / IP stands for "Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol" and is pronounced « T-C-P-I-P ».
TCP/IP is a communication protocol, consists of a set of standardized rules of communication on the Internet and is based on a technique of providing a unique IP address to each computer on the network [...]

MacENC 8 supports NMEA 2000

8 July 2010
by Francis.
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Richard Ray announced on the forum macsailing.net that great progress had been made in integrating support NMEA 2000 in MacENC. MacENC 8 now use the gangway Actisense NGT-1 USB to connect the Mac to a network N2K (¹).

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GribView 2.0, Finally a free GRIB viewer for Mac OS X !

30 th June, 2010
by Francis.
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We hoped for a while GRIB.US, Theyre that she came. The English company Kona Ltd., Site Owner Meteorology theyr.com has posted its application GribView 2.0, for Windows and OS X.

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Navimail² new version 2.1.2

29 May 2010
by Francis.
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Meteo-France we will deliver 3 th June, 2010 an update of its application of queries and viewing GRIB weather files, texts, graphs and satellite images.
Patrick Le Lay and his team have made many technical improvements to make this tool more robust and ergonomic. They have also incorporated the latest advances in meteorological modeling.

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Dead reckoning with GPSnavX / MacENC

7 April 2010
by Francis.
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As is mentioned in GPSNavX and MacENC Help pages, under "Simulator", you can use the simulator to perform a reckoning. Simulator, Indeed, can be handy if you do not – or more – have a connected GPS.

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Get a route from a design in MacENC (continue)

26 mar 2010
by Francis.
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Since my article 20 November on the topic, version 7.40 MacENC made of the possibility of drawing straight lines on the map with the tool « Annotation ».
 
 
This can now create routes more easily than freehand, creating less of waypoints.
The principle is the same explained in the previous article, the procedure remains the same.

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