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  1. Works well with my LG VX6000 through Verizon. A bit counterintuitive when entering text in form fields, but that may be the particular implementation on my phone - it's been known to be quirky.
  2. 19, yesterday, in an effort to get to 100 in a month. I won't be doing that again; did it in two separate efforts (9 in the morning between 0800 and 1100, and 10 in the afternoon between 1600 and 1900) sandwiched around mowing the lawn, doing the bills, and meeting some friends for lunch. I was exhausted by bedtime.
  3. You could probably get in trouble sending the nasty parts of that through the mail, but otherwise I think it's a great idea. Include a picture of the contents of their trade goods, and perhaps a printout of the original cache listing along with a short note, like "Just wanted you to be aware."
  4. 10,532 posts, about 38 months, that's 277 posts per month, a little less than 10 per day, the entire time. And he still grabs 800 caches? Have you ever noticed that you never hear about Mr. Knight and Superman in the same place at the same time? It's a telling clue. Well done!
  5. I dunno, I can kinda see M&L's point; whether it's on gc.com or an external page, on some caches it'd be nice to tell the whole story and not be limited by spoiling words or phrases. No need for any changes to gc.com; someone could just put up an external page with a standard interface where cache owners could automagically set up a password-protected area for finders to post additional logs. It'd all be opt-in, of course, and people aren't going to forego claiming the find on gc.com because of it.
  6. Oh, fine. In the loo, and only there, I may be the clumsiest and/or unluckiest person on earth. I've twice had a cellphone fall out of the geek pocket on my shirt as I bent to flush. I had a really nice watch get caught on my clothing as I stood and watched helplessly as it went sploosh; prior to flushing, that, and took a real effort of will to retrieve it. I had a "hardened" Palm III jump right out of my hand as I wrote on it and go sploosh. Those are just the high points. Course, the point of all of it is that none of them continued to work afterwards, even the watch and the Palm and so forth that were "waterproof." The moral of the story, and to make a pathetic attempt to stay on topic: if you're me, you don't trust waterproof electronics to actually be waterproof, and you stop taking your electronics into the john.
  7. I would've liked to have gone, especially for the GSAK talk, but I live in Kitsap county and was home with the kids all day Saturday. I work about a mile from the library, though - if it had been during the week I would've made it. And vice versa on a few - it's always fun to read the logs and find out that you just missed someone or that the car that passed you on the way in was probably full of cachers. Thanks all for the nods.
  8. "What about a robot with a human brain?" - Bart Simpson Seriously; to each his own. I don't trust car commercials, late night paid programming, or claims of waterproofed electronics. 'Nuff said.
  9. I hate to post this myself but I don't actually know any of you yet - the only caching buddy I have (gordo1013) doesn't post here. One month ago today, I finally went caching with him and had a grand time. Saturday night I had 82 finds; found 19 today to top out at 101 in my first month caching. Now I can relax. Yeah.
  10. No need to ignore anything. The List Options dialog is in Cachemate itself, and defines how the listings appear in that program. No matter how you export it from GSAK, if you don't choose to show the waypoint in the list in Cachemate, it's not going to show up. I think we're all at cross-purposes here, getting confused about which program we're trying to do what in. I can hardly make sense of it anymore.
  11. I'm an IT manager by trade and have a stack of several dead drives on my desk, waiting to be cannibalized for the magnets and fun spinny things. I already have a stack of 7 magnets recovered in the last few months, waiting to be used. I dunno if it's hard drive magnets specifically or all neodymium type magnets, but they're brittle as heck and will break given the slightest rough treatment.
  12. The majority of your questions can be answered by saying "yes, that information is missing because it's not in the LOC format." When you lock a record, that keeps it from being overwritten by later downloads. As far as making changes to several records at once, what you need to do is utilize the User Flag and one of the default filters. The default listing of records includes a checkbox as the second field in each record. This is the User Flag. Click the box to check it for all the records you want to edit. Once you have them all checked, go to the Select a Saved Filter dropdown in the toolbar and choose the "user flag=set" filter. This should filter the records so that only the ones you've checked are displayed. Now, go to the Database menu and choose "Global Replace...". Choose the field to replace (in this case, Cache Type) and then "Traditional" in the "With" dropdown, and click "Replace." You can download the GPX format records cache by cache as well, if you've got all day to do it. Hope that helped.
  13. Very nice. I was disappointed there was no green light around you.
  14. There's a way to do it, but only through a wrapper web page. See this thread where I posted more info about it. Speaking of which, these two threads should be combined.
  15. As long as it's getting exported, then the List Options menu is where you should be able to make it show up in Cachemate. OH! Wait, there's another option there that you need to set - at the top of the List Options dialog is a dropdown titled "Extra Info" - choose "Waypoint" in there and they'll show up in the listing, in parentheses after the name. This is with the registered version of Cachemate, V4.03.
  16. Assuming that you're exporting the GCxxxx waypoints from GSAK already (see Nightpilot's post just above,) then displaying that code in the listing is easy. From the main screen, go to the menus, Options, List Options, and check the "Display waypoint as name" box, and alternately check the "When sorted by waypoint" box. It's strange, though; the default setting is to display both the cache name and the waypoint name in the listing... checking the first option will make it display only the waypoint name. Perhaps the problem is with your GSAK export settings. Here's a screenshot of my GSAK Export/Cachemate PDB File dialog box. http://massivebraincase.org/gmaps/cachemate.GIF The "%code" in the Waypoint Name box is how it gets into Cachemate, I believe. Hope that helps... edit: removed image in favor of link to image
  17. The Geolex is the best source for lingo definitions and so forth that I know about. There you'll see that a charter member is a premium member that subscribed during the first year that subscriptions were available. -p
  18. I found a night cache last night, which takes one quite a ways into the dark and scary woods, and grabbed the Full Steam Ahead TB. I put it in my jacket pocket while walking back to the car. About halfway back I hear the freakiest noise, a sort of whistling screamy crackly noise that seems to be coming from the trees to my right. I jump and start flashing my light around in panic, my heart going like mad. After a few seconds of near heart attack, I tracked the noise to my own pocket - that TB, once you push the smokestack, whistles like a steam boiler for about 2 minutes. -p
  19. It has been amazing in Western Washington lately... I was at a cache in the woods a couple weeks ago, couldn't find it, came back and got it two days later. The difference in greenery in just two days blew me away. Like a month of regular Washington weather time.
  20. The easiest way I've found to add a new waypoint manually on my eTrex Legend is to mark the current location as a waypoint (on mine I just hold the Clickstick button down for a couple seconds) and then edit the name and lat/long. I'm pretty sure there's no "Add a waypoint" menu choice or whatever. I supose I should read the manual someday. -p
  21. Having had numerous "waterproof" watches and other electronics, and having dropped at least one of each into a toilet at some point (don't ask,) and having them stop working completely after that, I can see why someone might want one of those. That said, the answer is a lanyard more than a plastic bag; I wouldn't buy one either.
  22. One I found last night had a couple TBs, a couple semi-nice items like lightsticks and a new bison tube, but also had several useless pens, broken pencils, and discarded candy wrappers and such. Kim Stanley Robinson, one of my favorite authors, in his Mars series, talks a lot about the concept of a gift economy, where the objective is to always be able to give more than you get... if everyone's thinking that way then the benefits are obvious. -p
  23. Pasha

    Google Maps

    Also, per your suggestion I increased the IFRAME size and the span of the map. The reason the pushpin tag overlay is so large is just because it's the default one from Google. To fill it a little more, I changed the contents of the description field and so forth. To use the new version, replace the existing GSAK custom URL with this one: Google Maps=http://massivebraincase.org/gmaps/?title=%code|lat=%lat|lng=%lon|desc=%name|typ=%typ|con=%con|dif=%dif|ter=%ter -p
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