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As it turns out, with a modern phone and gmail with imap push, this might seem medieval. But it is still good for anyone with an older phone.

Most people use choose gmail for this since they offer imap push-mail. imap-push mail i supported in most modern phones. I've personally used it with several Sony Ericsson phones as K550i, K850i and now a G502. However, I am not using gmail myself so I cannot describe the necessary steps to set this up with your specific phone (I'm using my own mail server) but I'd be surprised if you cannot find instructions for this with a few google searches. The advantage of imap push-mail is that you are instantly notified when a mail arrive and the amount of data traffic used is very small. Just make sure to use a gmail account for this that you do not use for anything else than notifies and the traffic should be mimimal. EDIT: Here's gmail instructions (in swedish): http://geocaching.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5953 Ha ha ... Jag har kört in gmail och fått push och sånt att funka nu... Alldeles lagom till att bli snuvad på en FTF av dig... Jag måste ha fått messet samma minut som du loggade på internet... Hädanefter ska jag allt ge dig en match i FTF hunting KK Jag har 2,5 mil in till stan, men jag ska allt stampa pellen i botten när det ges tillfälle nästa gång.

Just to clarify what you area asking/requesting. When you are looking at the map for any given trackable, you would like to have a corresponding number next to the log below the map to allow a quick find of the logs in that area? If that is what you are asking for, I think it would be a great add. I have thought about it myself, but came to the conclusion that I rarely would use it, but others would and might justify the implementation. MYater Exactly ! Wouldnt that be sweet. I dont think I will use to often either, but it would be nice to have occationally.

Yeah, sweet... How do you do that ?

Yihaaw !! Sweet solution. I just installed gmail on my phone, never seen this before. Only one thing though, how does this let you know when a new cache is published ? Doing it my way, with sms, you get the notification instantly with a buzzing phone in your pocket. I now have both, i just set up another notification with the same values and posted that one to my gmailaccount. This way i get alarmed instantly and thX to you I also have the link to insanely fast take me to the new cachelisting with links and coordinates and all. Can we then agree that this have to be superhardcore ?!?!?

Im running Linux and right now every little script and fiddling about with my system has something to do with geocaching. Im lost in geocaching so to speak... Anyway this little tip is part of something a bit more complex, but i get back to that when its done. I have set up my email, that is registered with geocaching.com, to automatically send a sms to my phone whenever a new cache appears in my neighbourhood, or at the latest 10 min after the mail was recieved from geocaching.com. First the obvious. You have to set up a notification for new caches on the GC site, and you have to be Premium for that Then when the email arrives in your inbox, i have set up a filter to forward this email to (my phonenumber)@sms.world-text.com that will send a sms to my phone. www.world-text.com is a sms gateway service and so it costs money. But for the hard core FTF hunter a few $ per year may be worth it. Offcourse if you live in a BIG city and lots of ppl are planting lots of caches and you have set up your radius to 500 miles this will be expensive, so think with your wallet when you are setting up your notification. This is really easy and fast to setup. Here is a picture of my filtersettings, it in swedish but I think you get the ide. This should work for any modern email client. This thing also need for you to keep your computer with your emailclient running. But as i said this is just a part of something else. If you dont want your computer running all the time, but still want to be able to have this working whenever you get the FTF itch. There is simple ways to remotely start your computer from your phone and if running linux there is simple ways to remotely shut them down. To turn it on, it should be the same for any PC at least, running whatever system. Just enable WAKE ON LAN or WAKE ON RING or something depending on your BIOS. Then have a look at http://code.google.com/p/microwow/. And as a Linuxuser i use http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ which has macros to use for shutting down. If you remotely start your computer you also need to autologin to your computer and have your emailclient start automatically. This is how im running this right now, but the dream would be to have one script to do it all. So if any of you have some ideas on how to shell script this in a sweet way, i would jump of joy Keep on hunting

I think it would be nice to have the "hop" number, that shows on a bugs tracemap, on the loglist aswell. I missed it this morning when i checked a bug i remember that had traveled very far. There is a mishmash allover the map. It would have been sweet to know the number so I could easy find my log on the map. Just an ide, it should be simple enaugh to implement. //GC200

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Sweet !!! This was not obvious

I use Ubuntu Linux.... I have a Garmin 60CSX and i run mapsource under wine to connect to my GPS.... I Finally figured out how to set things up so they work properly under Linux....

Acctually... I found out that i can do this with mapsource. I just loaded the .gpx file with all the geocaches and highlighted them all and then set alarm for 0.5 km.... voila ! And i did this under linux with wine..... Me luvs Garmin it runs beautifully under mu Ubuntu Linux...

So do i have to edit the .gpx file then ? Or do i have to load the gpx file in a certain way ? The gc-specific functionality is only found and not found anyways, so i guess i can live with that.

I cant figure out how to set a general alarm for geocaches so it will alarm for all geocaches. I can set a single cache at a time but that just makes me wanna throw the whole thing in the next lake .....