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Entries for March, 2010

GPSFix Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

RT @gpstracklog Magellan eXplorist GC post w/links to Amazon and Magellan's product "buzz" pages: http://bit.ly/9LN0CBhttp://twitter.com/# #

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GPSFix Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

What Does IPX6 and IPX7 Waterproof Rating Mean?: http://bit.ly/dbRZv0 #
RT @TheBadCop WooHoo! There are 1,001,001 active geocaches around the world. We made it! http://bit.ly/cTNbl4 #
RT @d_yanke In case you have not heard yet, Geocaching's Groundspeak is raising PQ limit from 500 to 1000. http://bit.ly/9K1ACK #
New blog post: Garmin to Add Custom Symbols and Tracklog Improvement… [...]

Custom Symbols on the Garmin Oregon 450 and 550

Ever since the Colorado arrived two years ago without this feature, Custom Symbols has been on the The Most Wanted List for the newer State-named units, especially since the older 60csx had this capability.  Today Garmin fixed that for some Oregon owners by announcing Custom Symbol support in their latest 450/550 beta.  The Custom Symbols [...]

Garmin to Add Custom Symbols and Tracklog Improvements to Oregon x50

Update: Garmin has released beta 3.26 for the Oregon x50 available here.  I would highly recommend backing up your entire /Garmin/GPX directory before using this beta since your current tracklog will get modified and moved into daily/weekly archives if you enable that feature.
Here’s something bound to make Garmin Oregon 450 and 550 owners happy.  Two [...]

GPSFix Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Garmin Colorado 400i, 400c and 400t discontinued? No longer show up on Garmin's US site (CO 300 does) #
Garmin Colorado 400's are on the discontinued list: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=167 Wonder how the 300 will stay? #
Boyd's free detailed New Jersey map for Garmin Oregon/Colorado/Dakota http://tinyurl.com/yg6w64s #
Garmin Oregon 450t finally in stock at Amazon, hopefully it'll last [...]