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Are the tidal predictions reliable ?

All navigation software offer predictions of tides, more or less long range, covering the world's coastlines. Where come these predictions from ? How are they established ? What is their reliability ? These are all questions that any conscientious yachtman is entitled to ask.

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Weather4D plays GRIB weather data for iPhone

For my 100th post, I propose a little gem.
The 24 March has appeared on the AppStore version 1.0 de Weather4D (*) that we owe to the French Olivier Bouyssou, a guy from South. Friends yachtmen, it gives me the best application of weather ever seen on iPhone. The major players in the weather will take a good lesson, a developer of engineering in Toulouse has done it alone, [...]

VirtualBox : increase the size of virtual disk

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, in 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

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 [...]

Celestial – navigation on iPhone and iPad

The company Navimatics Corp., located near Seattle, state of Washington, moved since October 2010 a complete application for celestial navigation. After INA (*) from Global Marine Network, Celestial iPhone here, iPod Touch and iPad.

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Navionics Mobile and Community Sharing

Once will not hurt, I relayed the information in French that can not blog Panbo an interested users of mobile devices Apple.
You can read the full article U.S. « Navionics Mobile, UGC & Plotter Sync » from which I take off this post.
Community Sharing

User Generated Content (User generated content)
Social Mapping or charting Social (Social mapping)
Crowd Sourcing (Crowd sourcing)

All these english words mean the same principle : dissemination to the community [...]

iNA – The Nautical Almanac on iPhone

Friends yachtmen, for the few of you who, like me, does not completely sacrifice the traditional navigation to electronics, enjoy ! I have dreamed about it for a while, for only 12 EUR Luis Soltero did it :
INA scans all ephemeris data available in the daily pages of USNO Nautical Almanac, until the year 2800, we have time to see !Information needed to determine the position by celestial navigation, the [...]

The shipping forecast on the iPhone

In a previous post about my favorite apps for iPhone, I cited two weather apps : La Chaine Météo, very good general weather application from Meteo Consult, Weather and iSailing that offers maps marine weather GRIB files based British-born.
Meteo France has finally added his own free application, offering its full range of forecasts, including marine weather reports in text format.

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World tides with iPad

AyeTides XL, tides prediction application of Hahn Software LLC, is available from the 2 nd August on AppStore. Extrapolation from AyeTides version for iPhone, AyeTides XL offers a completely renewed user interface to take advantage of the iPad screen size and the framing.
With more than 9940 tides and currents stations around the world, whose 184 stations in France, the application presents [...]

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

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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