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50% off Zagg Products including invisibleSHIELD

The title says it all. If you are looking for a screen protector or know someone who would like one for Christmas stop by Zagg and pick up some invisibleSHIELD coverage for 50% off — today only. Zagg has screen protectors designed specifically for the Colorado, Oregon, Dakota, GPSMAP 62 and 60csx.

Garmin chirp Approved by Groundspeak – Based on ANT+ Standard

Yesterday Groundspeak announced that they will approve chirp-enabled geocaches on geocaching.com, putting to rest a several day long chirp thread on the geocaching forums.  While Groundspeak prefers that cache hiders provide an alternate means of finding the cache, a chirp cache can be listed as a mystery cache with a new “wireless beacon attribute” if [...]

50% Off InvisibleShields — Extended for Today

Zagg has extended the sale which will get you 50% off everything on their site including invisibleShield screen protectors.  If you missed the deal yesterday you have until 12 midnight Pacific Time to make your purchase!  International sales are included in this promotion too.

50% Off invisibleShields Today Only

Zagg is running a sale for today only which will get you 50% off everything on their site including invisibleShield screen protectors.  InvisibleShields are a great way to prevent screen scratches on your Garmin GPS.  I have them installed on all of my units, and they keep my touchscreen Dakota’s and Oregon’s looking like new [...]

Garmin Outs BirdsEye, Updates BaseCamp and GPS Software

Over the last two days Garmin has been busy rolling new versions of BaseCamp and software for the Colorado, Oregon x00, Oregon x50 and Dakota all aimed at delivering their newest mapping product — BirdsEye.   As we discussed in a previous post, BirdsEye allows users of the “state-named” Garmin GPS units to download and make [...]

Garmin Announces BirdsEye Satellite Imagery Subscription

Update 1/18: Garmin officially announced BirdsEye today.  Availability is March 2010. Details are still a bit sketchy but it looks like Garmin is finally releasing an all-you-can-eat satellite imagery subscription called BirdsEye for their outdoor handhelds that support Garmin Custom Maps. For $30 a year Oregon, Colorado and Dakota users who install a yet to [...]

More Custom Map Updates and Garmin Dakota How To Videos

If you are a GB Discoverer user or need profile support for Custom Maps you’ll want to run Webupdater one more time this week. Garmin released more software for the Oregon, Colorado and Dakota this afternoon which was accompanied by the following two release notes: Added profile support for Garmin Custom Maps Fixed lockup while [...]