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Miniplex-2Wi, the new WiFi multiplexer for iPad and iPhone

16 Jan 2012
by Francis.
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The company has just introduced ShipModul on its website its new wireless multiplexer, the Miniplex-2Wi. This device comes in direct competition to the IMUX Brookhouse, on which I wrote several posts on this blog, but penalized since early 2011 by delivery prohibitive for France.
The Miniples-2Wi only regards boats owners with NMEA 0183 and/or RAYMARINE SeaTalk instruments. For boats with a network [...]

Search for charts information data with iNavX

10 Jan 2012
by Francis.
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Navionics vector charts contain a number of detailed information for each marina, and sometimes some moorings. These places are marked on charts by the symbol shown against.
These data are called in English "Navaids" when information concerning navigation, and "POIs" when dealing with practical and interesting information (Point Of Interest, call number « s » is the plural).

Iridium AxcessPoint : GRIB weather files on iPhone and iPad in open sea

19 December 2011
by Francis.
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Announced on this blog in September (¹), the housing AxcessPoint company Iridium can now make requests and receive files from a GRIB weather iPad or an iPhone on the high seas, into the wild, anywhere on the world.
Having implemented and tested this solution on a long journey, I can say that it is fully operational.

The Iridium driver in Mac OS X Lion : details

12 oct 2011
by Francis.
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I was alerted by several users unable to install the driver provided by MailaSail (*) to set Iridium connection with Mac OS 10.7 Lion. While install processing, the driver requires the presence of the iSync utility without which it will not install.

Anchor Alarm with iNavX

12 sept 2011
by Francis.
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iNavX offers for a while an "anchor alarm" feature, currently available at the bottom of the application Home page.
This feature was frequently criticized as impractical. iNavX 3.3.0 rectifies the failure in an improvement that makes it particularly clever now fully operational.
The "Anchor Alarm" feature allows to set the radius of a drift circle, with an adjustment from 0,01 MN (19 meters) [...]

Using an Iridium phone with Mac OS X

1 sept 2011
by Francis.
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British society Mailasail, I am now the representative in France for Mac users, provides tools to connect directly an Iridium to Mac OS X. A driver designed by them can now transfer data from a mail application in OS X, mainly Mail or Thunderbird, and surf the Internet.
We can make requests for weather files [...]

Files transfer from Mac to iPad / iPhone

22 August 2011
by Francis.
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In a recent post, I mentioned the possibility of transferring files between a Mac and WiFi iPad Files Connect with the application. This is of course not the only method.
In a forthcoming article, I will discuss the connection of an Iridium with a Mac OS X, to make requests and receive GRIB files in the open sea. As to date it is not possible [...]

iNavX and the "Man Overboard"

12 August 2011
by Francis.
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For a while Rich Ray was asked to add a feature button "Man overboard" in its applications. Recently, following a new application on the site macsailing.net, he justified his refusal by the following reasons :

Such a button would take up limited/valuable screen real-estate on every screen..
Such a button , with expected behavior, come in [...]

Free ENC river charts for use with MacENC

20 July 2011
by Francis.
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As part of its policy to offer users a leak ever more efficient and safe, the public institution Waterways of France embarked on the production of electronic navigational charts on various domestic routes in its network. The first two : the link "Dunkirk-Escaut" and "Garonne" is published.
The big surprise, unique in the history of the French administration, is that these cards are [...]

Import files as attachments in iNavX

5 July 2011
by Francis.
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Since version 3.2.7, iNavX can import GRIB weather files and waypoints, routes and tracks files, received by mail attachments, or transferred from a Mac or a PC to an iPhone / iPad using a dedicated application. Supported formats are. Grb (GRIB), .gpx (waypoints), .kml / .kmz (Google Earth).
A single push on such a file opens the dialog "Open in iNavX", which itself [...]

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