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iOS 5 will not be able to delete your Navionics charts in iNavX

Following my post of 8 December iOS 5 can delete your Navionics charts without warning, Richard Ray will place charts downloaded from X-Traverse server in reserved unerasable folder. This hazard will be removed from the next update iNavX. Whew !

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iOS 5 can delete your Navionics charts without warning

Pleasant surprise in the ARC transatlantic 2011.
After transferring pictures from my camera to my iPad, for some reason the memory was saturated. I had yet to 9GB free and I have transferred the contents of an SD-Card 2GB. Mystery !
Still, after two or three system messages informing me of the next saturation, iOS 5 has simply deleted all my [...]

Updated iOS5 and iNavX

Richard Ray tells us :

I noticed after updating iOS 5 all my downloaded maps in iNavX disappeared. This occurred because the iOS update 5 update requires a full restore of the device and the charts are not stored in the iOS backup (because of iCloud). Let me know if you have a different operating.
To restore any NOAA charts, then select [...]

How the iPhone knows where you are

This entry was posted on Macworld.com by Glenn Fleishman. He explains in very precise and didactic way location services of Apple iPhone and iPad and sheds light on the data that Apple gets on our devices. As sometimes a small dose of theoretical knowledge does not affect, I will book the full translation here. The source is available via this link :

How [...]

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, 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 [...]

iPad 2 and IOS 4.3 – What's new for boaters ?

Since the introduction of this new iPad and installing the new OS on my devices (iPhone 3GS et iPad 1), I wondered about the benefits that could draw boaters users, compared to previous model and system.

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iOS 4.2.1, What's new for mariners ?

A quick note to discuss what is new in this iOS for us, boaters.
For iPhone, not much : multitasking was already present in version 4.1, to close iNavX without stopping, to use another application. It is therefore possible to switch from one application to another, iNavX continuing to record the traces.
For iPad, the system finally brings the long awaited multi-tasking. An advantage for the use of applications [...]