el10t Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 At long last, in this thread Jeremy mentions that there is going to be a portable version of the cache pages. It will use ebook format. Hooray ----------- el10t mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
+Postie Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 That will save me a lot of copying and pasting into the memo pad!! I wonder how many people use a PDA in Geocaching? Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 26, 2002 Author Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Postie:I wonder how many people use a PDA in Geocaching? I have a Cassiopeia which I don't currently use for geocaching. I certainly will do once this improvement is implemented though. ----------- el10t mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
+Masher Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 I have a Palm Vx that I use for caching. I use the Geocaching channel on AvantGo and it works pretty well. Mark ---------------------- I was technical once Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 26, 2002 Author Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Masher:I use the Geocaching channel on AvantGo and it works pretty well. I can't find a geocaching channel on AvantGo. Have you any pointers? ----------- el10t mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by el10t: quote:Originally posted by Masher:I use the Geocaching channel on AvantGo and it works pretty well. I can't find a geocaching channel on AvantGo. Have you any pointers? ----------- el10t _mobilis in mobili_ I use a Palm for all my caches (well I would if it wasn't in the menders at the moment). You can create a custom chanel in avantgo from your Nearest caches list or you can use one of Brians Palmable Geocaching Indexes which are much nicer. I use the UK-London index. Look here for how to create a custom channel. The other usefull things palm users can use are the Hint Decoder ,the Logging Tool and (regular viewers know it's coming) My Spreadsheet (sorry couldn't resist the plug ) Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 I have a Palm m505 with a web browser on it (Eudora web). With that and a mobile phone I can access the cache pages while I'm out "in the field". Eudora has a cache (pun intended) facility so you could load up the pages at home while on line and then access them in the field without dialing up. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. Quote Link to comment
+the england's Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: I have a Palm m505 with a web browser on it (Eudora web). With that and a mobile phone I can access the cache pages while I'm out "in the field". Exactly how I currently do it, but I have a Vx It's out there...let's go get it! Quote Link to comment
+Masher Posted April 26, 2002 Share Posted April 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by el10t: I can't find a geocaching channel on AvantGo. Have you any pointers? ----------- Chris has answered for me... and typically with more info than I could have provided! (Useful for me actually: as my PC had a coronary a couple of weeks ago, and I had lost those links. Cheers Chris!!) I use an index that Brian kindly created specifically for me, called user-masher. It's updated once a week and contains the 100 caches closest to my home co-ords, but doesn't include caches I have already found. Just how useful is that!! (It's listed toward the bottom of the index page that Chris' link points to). I believe he will do the same for anyone, who can prove they have held his Palmable Travel Bug in their greasy mitts at some point. Oh yes... I use a Vx, for those interested. Mark ---------------------- I was technical once [This message was edited by Masher on April 26, 2002 at 11:36 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Finger Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 I have used both a Palm PDA & a Compaq iPaq to do Geoicaching. I looked at the web via both & used a Navman sled on both to look for the cache. All was fine. Fun collecting the webpage whilst on the move. Finger (UK Charter Member) Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 This Clipping App might be of use to some of you Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 29, 2002 Author Share Posted April 29, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Chris n Maria:Found this on another thread Several (well, nine) other threads by the look of it ----------- el10t mobilis in mobilinull Quote Link to comment
+kennamatic Posted May 30, 2002 Share Posted May 30, 2002 quote: This Clipping App might be of use to some of you It seems like a great little application, the only problem I have is whenever it's trying to download the information I get "Run time error 76" and no finished download. Has anyone else had this problem, am I single handedly breaking the internet or am I just being particularly dense and doing the whole thing wrong. FYI-I'm using a Sony Clie PDA just in case it makes any difference. Finding your caches - Losing my marbles. Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 You could allways try this little app from your wirless PC: http://gdbclub.org/cgi-bin/gc/mobile.cgi I don't have a WAP phone so I don't know if this works - but you could try it: http://www.geocaching.com/wap Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Quote Link to comment
+Lassitude Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 With Avant-go and a number of channels set up from a website called palmable indices which has cache listings in a format that makes them very presentable on a handheld. I used this setup on holiday in Europe and found it very useful. Saves paper as well!!! Thanks Chris LASSITUDE- (noun) Tiredness and apathy: a state of weariness accompanied by listlessness or apathy[15th century. Via French from Latin lassitudo , from lassus 'weary'.] Quote Link to comment
+The Wombles Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Lassitude: With Avant-go and a number of channels set up from a website called palmable indices which has cache listings in a format that makes them very presentable on a handheld. I also used Brian's Palmable Geocaching Indexes on my iPaq whilst caching in the US. (These can be set up as channels through Avantgo as described in Chris' post above). Excellent. I'd love to use them more in the UK but the few existing channels only cover the South-East (never mind North-South divide, this is East-West)! I've mailed Brian requesting more channels in the UK but sadly no response - if you support the idea then please mail him as above. Hopefully we'll get the eBook format on the Geocaching site eventually - now that really would be environmentally friendly because I've printed so much paper (still, it does use those trees I hate so much when caching . . .). Dave & Nicky Quote Link to comment
+Team Minim Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 Following Chris's link above I logged on to the wap site. It offers three choices of finding a cache, by state (us only) by country or by zip code (US only). Selecting by country prompts for the first three letters of the country, so I entered uni, but at this point I was unable to progress. The only action I could get the phone to do was keep editing the three letters! I'll try on a different wap phone and see if it's any use, but for now it looks like a dead end. Shares in Tupperware? Be a Geocacher! Quote Link to comment
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