The Pointy Ear Dog Gang

Wow! These are all great ideas! Thank you everyone for all your help! We're going to give these ideas a try. Thanks again!

Hi, We just got signed up for the pocket queries to work with Cache Mate and MacGMConvert. We have a Macintosh Power book laptop with OSX 10.2.8 and have a Palm Zire 72. It works great and have been receiving the weekly pocket queries to our e-mail, but were wondering if there is a way to just put in individual caches into cache mate that have not been downloaded into the program already. Sometimes, we like to pick and choose certain caches we may be finding in a specific area. Is there a way to just download those caches into pocket queries and cache mate? Thanks for your help!

/ I have installed Cachemate 4.1.2 on a Palm Zire72 and am having problems. I cannot import the XML of a geocache quarey. I'm unable to follow the instructions that came with Cachemate. They use a PC program "cmconvert.exe" and that is unusable for me because I have a Mac runing OS-X ver 10.2.8. Is there a work around to this step for people with Macs? Is there a Mac equivent version of "cmconvert.exe"?

Thanks Big White Truck! Cache Mate looks good! Do you or anyone else out there know what the Spinner/Plucker version looks like on the palm?

Hi! Not sure if this is the correct place to be posting this, but we'll give it a shot. We are very interested in taking advantage of the paperless caching programs so we don't have to keep printing off tons of cache pages on paper and destroying trees. I have a Macintosh laptop (circa 2000) with OSX as the OS (version 10.2.8) and a Palm pilot handheld (a Palm Zire 72. It says it has free space 55.5K of 25M). I'm not very computer saavy so I've been researching as much as I can about this ( have checked out geocaching.com pages on this, Bay Area Geocachers web page on Paperless caching, and CyBret's Geocacher U web site on the subject. One of our member of the gang, Idaho Bob, is really good with this kind of stuff, but he is away on a business trip, so I wanted to see if I could figure this one on my own). I've noticed that I can use either the "Spinner" and "Plucker" applications, or there is another one people seem to like called "CacheMate". My question is which one of these applications most resembles the actual Geocaching cache web pages? I've looked for pictures on the web that shows what these programs will look like on the Palm, but haven't been successful (Saw a fast flipping one on the Cache Mate homepage, but it keeps flipping to different pages and is hard to actually see whats on it). When I print out the cache web pages, I love having all the info there to use out in the field (Believe me, those pages have come in so handy when you are stumped and need a few more clues from the description or the previous logs). I like having the full description, difficulty, terrain, lat/long, TB inventory, attributes, the clue, and the 5 previous logs on the pages. So which program would be the best one for what we are looking for? I saw a handheld program on someones handheld PC a few years back at a geocaching get together and it was really cool! It looked just like the geocaching cache web page! But we didn't get it, as it was only for Pocket PCs. Are there any programs out there like that for Palms? Thank you for all your help!

We understand your frustration with item #2. Nothing worse with putting a lot of time and effort into a cache and have someone come by and destroy it. It has happened to our caches as well, but as others have said, it is usually a very small percentage of the general public who are not geocachers. Try not to let it get to you. We hope you set up your cache again...it sounds really cool! As for item #1, you're never going to please everyone, and you were absolutely right when you said that if the geocacher had taken the time to actually look at your signature item (instead of jumping to conclusions), he would have noticed that he had a really cool, unique trading item in his cache for others to trade.

Thank you Hamburg for your help! Hopefully we can get these programs up and running soon.

Hi, I know this topic has come up before but I wasn't able to find it. I would like to be able to use the Pocket Queries with my Mac and my Palm PDA, but I'm not sure which programs will be compatible. Does anyone know which programs I can download to my Mac to run Pocket Queries on my Palm PDA? Thank you for your help.

Hello, Just a question for you all, as we have several travel bugs that have been held by geocachers for months without being placed in a new cache. What is the best way to contact a geocacher who has been holding your TB for 3 months or more? We have one active TB that has been held by a geocacher since June and he still has not placed it in a new cache. We have e-mailed the geocacher and tried to be corteous, stating that we were wondering when he might be placing the TB and that we were looking forward to seeing where the TB would be moving onto next. We even told him that our kids were anxiously waiting to see where their bug would be going next. He wrote back apoligizing profusely and said that he would place the TB in the next few days. That was a month and a half ago, and the TB is still in his posession. We understand that people get busy and that they aren't always able to get out and geocache, but we also know that if you can't place a TB within a 3 week period of time that you shouldn't take it. We've had situations where we weren't able to place the TB right away, but we've always tried to contact the TB owner to let them know why we hadn't placed it yet and when we plan to place it. We have one TB that has been held by a geocacher for a year and a half (we have pretty much given up on that TB). We know that this is a common problem for all TB owners...we just wanted to get peoples advice on what they do, or what they write to geocachers to help them move the TB along. Thanks for your help!

We love the nose pic of your dog CAKoala! We use a drawn picture of a dog cause the picture is a mixture of all of our dogs combined.

Those are great TB labels! Thank you MiTuCats for sharing those with us. We will use those labels if we place another TB.?

We love looking for travel bugs and find it to be one of the best parts of geocaching. We decided to put a few of our own travel bugs out there. One of them went missing for a few days because the geocache was taken away, but was found by a fellow geocacher a few days later. Our other bug was traveling along quite well and then vanished from a cache. No log in the cache log book or web page, just gone! Quite a bummer! We had another bug ready to go, but since our other 2 bugs have not had much luck, we feel that we are going to hold off on putting anymore bugs out.