Gralorn
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All most interesting and it is not really cricket to point out such a cache, but as an exception and example of what I refer to is perhaps GC2EQH4. Certainly a magic phone required for this one!
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Since the arrival of the IPhone, Blackberry and other similar mobile phones that have the ability to connect to the internet I have noticed that some series of caches are now having a bonus cache that can only be solved with the ability to link to the internet. This requirement usually is to either find values of things collected or decode a certain encryption of information gained whilst walking around the series. If one does not possess one of these all singing and dancing technical pieces and lives fairly close to the series they of course have the opportunity to nip home and do a little Googling, then return to the area to retrieve the bonus. However if one does not have a 'magic' phone, lap top, PDA, notebook, or IPad and lives many miles away then the opportunity of a bonus cache for a series is in my opinion fruitless and frustrating.
In my personal opinion I feel that a bonus cache, if there is going to be one after all there is not really a requirement, should be at least obtainable to either a local or visiting geocacher on the ground at the time of caching without having to have the ability of being able to connect to the Internet for further required information. Several people have these phones as a work requirement and actually use them for caching which is a real bonus, but many cachers do not have them and have already had to take out a second mortgage in order to buy a good GPS, let alone taking on the additional expence of a IPhone, IPad, Lap Top or PDA in order to solve a 'Bonus' cache! What is the general feeling?
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MWSnap3 is a very good 'free' programme to make a photo of anything on the screen....use quite a lot.
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Having all these stats, can you say which are the ten heaviest populated counties with caches?
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Our Trident Autohome also has a magnetic TB on its rear, but it is not noticed very much at all. On one site someone asked us what the spider thing was!! Oh Well....it's all the spirit of Geocaching.
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So if you already have it on your home PC, is it possible to also put it on your Lap Top without the nag and having to subscribe again?
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If you transfer from GSAK to garmin 60csx you seem to get some Blue Flags for some reason even though they are traditional caches???
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In the Rucksack .....Small flask of coffee (no sugar) and a banana ! ........................... Simples!
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Thanks for all the help and advice, has all been most helpful. All I can say though is that we have certainly in the past few years moved on leaps and bounds from the paper map, compass, protractor/romer and pencil that is for sure. I can remember when having a Silva compass was the Bee's Knee's, now its Oregon 500's and Smart or IPhones. Where will it end?? Thanks again.
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Well I can now locate caches in far and distant locations that I have not accounted for before leaving my home roost. Still have the Oregon and 60csx so in fairness should never be short of a cache to find wherever I am. Just wish that Groundspeak would hurry up and develop a legal android programme in which we could all enjoy. Thanks to all those who helped with their advice, certainly most appreciated. I'll have to visit Kernow again now and grab a few more caches! Happy Caching.
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I had better not ask then if it is not authorised which is a shame as it sounds a nice programme. Have you any other nice useful apps on your Desire apart from Geocaching ones?
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Right did all that and all went well up to a point! When I go to (reference to unauthorized application removed by Groundspeak) (Geobeagle) and click menu I do not get anything about Sync Caches. I get the three following options> Settings, Navigation, Type of caches. So i go to settings which brings me to a log in page of geocaching .com with the following options:
Exclude my caches, Description Autoload, All Imperial, Hide Images, Identify as Browser. I have them all highlighted with the exception of hide images.
However when I go to the list in geobeagle and select say Hastings, it finds the caches! So it does work, how now though does one delete them!
All this techie stuff gives one an adrenaline rush! Well it does me.
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How in Lay- mans language?
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I have also loaded geobeagle onto my HTC Wildfire, but seem to have not found out how to transfer the PQ to it from the PC. It must be simple enough, but it tells me I have the wrong logins?? So I'll start again I think as you made it sound so easy.
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Have done everything I believe that has to be done with Geobeagle, put in my 'alternate e-mail', but still not sure how this will get to my mobile phone. have that feeling that I am missing something somewhere. Have geog on the mobile, have done the PQ's...now just waiting, but exactly where the PQ's will turn up I have very little idea.
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OK, so now I have gone out and purchased a HTC Wildfire Mobile Phone (Android) The question now is can I download Geocache Navigator apps and how? The provider is Vodaphone.
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Yes I see what you are saying and I do have a PDA with Memory Map on. The fact is though that one never really knows where one may end up and a phone connection to the internet will give up to date info, also allow you to log in on line as well. something that you have loaded onto a card you can almost guarantee when you try to find it you cannot, and when you eventually get home find it has been temp disabled. Those are two ideas though and thanks for that, I feel the PAYG phone with a Bolt on and Geo apps may be simpler....I think!
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OK advice is required and I just know that you will be able to advise accordingly. I have just recently travelled all around the Devon and Cornish Coast, starting at Ilminster and ending eventually at Minehead, via Lands End. My problem was that I ran out of caches on my Oregon at Plymouth. So could do no caches after that as had no viable means. The PQ's and capacity of the Oregon just did not suffice. In honesty did not think that we were going that far to begin with! At Megavissey met another cacher who was using a phone and the geocaching apps I presume, who gave me a couple of co-ords for later. seemed a magic piece of kit.
I need one of these magic phones like that, but currently I am locked in to a 18 month tariff on a normal Nokia 5130. So I would like to buy a phone that would enable me to have gps and geocaching apps and sat map which I could use as a Pay as You Go, with the ability to 'Bolt On' I believe its called for the odd month giving me unlimited Internet access and the same sort of magic that he had. There is a recession so do not want to spend a fortune. Advice would be most appreciated.
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What I find annoying sometimes is that when you put in the co-ords, usually straight off the cache sheet/description they are the actual location of the cache. The Tom Tom of course then tries to get you as close to that position as possible on a road. Usually some distance away, on a main road, or in the middle of nowhere with a brick wall between you and the cache site. Its great for just getting you to the area or parking area though, and super for drive bys as well.
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Thank goodness I only asked a simple question and thankfully got a simple answer /=divide and *=multiply
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Incredible, but then probably as an amateur computer user that I never realised that / was a computer symbol for divide and that * was a computer symbol for multiply. So thanks for that DrDick&Vick, it certainly gives one a starter for ten as they say. Its a true saying that you learn something different every day.that's for sure
I know "So what did you learn today"????? another topic I think!
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Lately people tend to be doing different things with the / or * when setting equations. I have always understood that either symbol means divide as there is no such symbol on the key board. where as there is an - + = and x. Can it be clarified that either denotes division or is it either now? division and multiply??
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I'm on 3.80 as well which cured my problem of only showing one cache icon when I was on 3.70. using discovery maps.
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Eureka !! I have just updated the software again from 3.70 to 3.80 and all is back again. Shows all caches in an area as it used to do. So it was the upgrade to 3.70 that had caused the gliche and 3.80 has rectified it. Wonderful. Does anyone use 'Birds Eye' and is it worth purchasing? Thanks for all your other assistance and advice. Might even attempt to swap my icons Chris, but a little wary of changing things, even though it sounds straight forward on your Follow the Arrow page.
How to Transfer the Hint
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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If one goes to list of caches put out by a username, hidden by this user. It allows you to check individually or check all if a series on the right of the cache name. it then allows you to Download to GSAK. you then simply save file. Simples.................. But it does not pass over the hint! How does one adjust whatever so as the hint is also transferred to GSAK?