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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 be [...]

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 using GB [...]

Garmin Custom Maps Officially Available on Oregon, Dakota and Colorado

Yesterday Garmin announced (press release | blog) official software upgrades for the Oregon, Dakota and Colorado which include the Garmin Custom Maps feature.  Garmin described Custom Maps as “a free, simple process that helps users transform the maps they currently have – in paper or digital form – into downloadable maps for compatible Garmin [...]

Tips on Garmin Custom Maps — GPS Visualizer Adds Garmin KMZ Support

After experimenting with GPS Visualizer to create Garmin KMZ files last week I contacted Adam Schneider, author of GPS Visualizer, about making it easier to create Garmin Custom Maps using his very useful (and free) online tool. Today Adam published changes to GPS Visualizer which simplify the process of creating Custom Maps from [...]