JackiePenn Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I just set up notifications of new caches within 25km of home coordinates to be sent to my mobile phone via SMS. Got 3 Eckington just published as my first testing. Partial content emails, just enough to make me know there is a new cache up for grabs if I wish to get it, and if I do I can go check my email properly or search geocaching.com from where ever I am. My mail account inbox is filtered for new cache notifications and it forwards them to my email>sms account at o2 where it get sent out to phone via sms. Anyone else do/done this ? Any better way of doing it. Would be nice to get sent a full SMS of details when the caches are simple traditional type. Or include the waypoint rather than cache name which forms part of subject line as well as co-ord. Maybe I like the FTF rush to much ? Quote Link to comment
+KiwiGary Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Well you could log in via WAP and get the details. Can't say I would that worried myself. See ya...Gary Quote Link to comment
+The Knights who say Ni Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) We collect all our email on our phone, so the GC notifications come to us anyway with the rest of our email. The phone only collects mail headers, then we get it to retrieve 10Kb of the email if we're interested in reading it. Many phones have a POP3 or IMAP4 email client on them these days, but you need to check whether your mobile network will charge you for collecting your emails, or if you have an amount of free data download on the phone. Certainly if you only collect the email headers initially, it's a minimal amount of data. With Vodafone, they convert our unused SMS allowance into data, so we can happily download email from our phone and surf to the full GC.COM website using the Opera mobile browser, or just use the WAP page version that uses minimal data. Edited January 16, 2006 by The Knights who say Ni Quote Link to comment
+daytribe Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Don't go telling everyone, they'll all be doing it. I have been doing this for a couple of months now and it has enabled me to get my first two FTF's. Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I set up a brand new Yahoo account which is not used for anything else. Get insta-notifications sent to that for new caches within 20 miles of home co-ords. Yahoo sends the message via SMS to my O2 phone. Think it costs about 12p per text. Quote Link to comment
+Gralorn Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Your quick enough as it is Stonefisk! Phones, Waps, e-mails, gosh! I take a phone in case one of us falls down a hole or something and needs help, or the RAC relay as a by-way has just taken the axle off the car!!! You really do want to be super boost fast with FTF's. Could not compete with all that technology. Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Your quick enough as it is Stonefisk! Phones, Waps, e-mails, gosh! I take a phone in case one of us falls down a hole or something and needs help, or the RAC relay as a by-way has just taken the axle off the car!!! You really do want to be super boost fast with FTF's. Could not compete with all that technology. uh oh I 've been busted. Quote Link to comment
+Skippy and Pingu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Pingu used it during the infamous Light Of Life series. Meant we got to part 2 quickest and were first in the slightly incorrect area for part 3!! Quote Link to comment
+Chaotica_UK Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) Your quick enough as it is Stonefisk! Phones, Waps, e-mails, gosh! I take a phone in case one of us falls down a hole or something and needs help, or the RAC relay as a by-way has just taken the axle off the car!!! You really do want to be super boost fast with FTF's. Could not compete with all that technology. uh oh I 've been busted. So has it helped you go out and get FTF on the three of them today? Mark Edited January 16, 2006 by Chaotica_UK Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 So has it helped you go out and get FTF on the three of them today? Mark ah I see they where yours Slightly out of my comfort range, so I didn't bother or I would have gone for them last night I also had cache maintenance and setting to do today and tomorrow and not an infinite fuel budget. Quote Link to comment
+Chaotica_UK Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 So has it helped you go out and get FTF on the three of them today? Mark ah I see they where yours Slightly out of my comfort range, so I didn't bother or I would have gone for them last night I also had cache maintenance and setting to do today and tomorrow and not an infinite fuel budget. I did wonder if you were talking about the same ones when you opened the thread yesterday I know what you mean about the fuel budget, gotta keep it in perspective! Im sure I will do a day trip in your direction sometime soon. Need to clear up all the Gowenhouse ones near me first. lol. Mark Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Anyone with a WAP phone can collect their normal POP3 mail at www.mail2wap.com. It's a bit clunky and has some silly limitations (really short e-mail address limt when sending, for example), but it's better than nothing! Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 I had a pleasant vibration in my jeans today, it was Lactodorum texting my phone with a new cache publication. Got myself a FTF within the hour. Yay, the system works. I was heading in that direction for a cache setting anyway so was a good excuse. Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I had a pleasant vibration in my jeans today, it was Lactodorum Not sure if I should report that or not? Quote Link to comment
+Gralorn Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Should change your title from Stonefisk to Nighthawk!! Quote Link to comment
JackiePenn Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 Should change your title from Stonefisk to Nighthawk!! Nighthawk ? Don't get it sorry but before your time I was there night caching FTF in Wiltshire.... GCJRQR GCK0GZ So it is nothing new. Quote Link to comment
+Gralorn Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 So I see, its obviously one of your things! Night = Dark, blackness Hawk = Bird with incredible eyesight !!!! Quote Link to comment
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