After making new releases available for the Oregon x00, Oregon x50 and Dakotas just weeks ago, Garmin has quickly followed up with a fix-up release that addresses several common complaints. The new software lineup made available on January 28th includes Oregon x00 version 3.6, Oregon x50 version 3.1 and Dakota version 2.6. All of these [...]
The entire Oregon and Dakota line exited another beta phase today with new official releases of software from Garmin. Nothing very interesting to report since we’ve seen all of this in the prior beta releases but obviously Garmin is feeling good enough to make it official. The major improvements include support for new dashboards, dashboards [...]
A quick post to let Dakota owners know that they have been nice this year AND they will be getting more than a lump of coal for Christmas. Similar to the beta released a two weeks ago for the Oregon units, this beta gives Dakota users the same cool new dashboards and ability to see [...]
Garmin has gone crazy with the concept of dashboards in their newest beta software which was released yesterday for the Oregon 300/400 and Oregon 550. Dashboards are widgets which give you the ability to customize the appearance of pages on your GPS. Prior to this release Garmin had provided five different dashboards to customize the [...]
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 [...]
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 GPS [...]
In amongst all of the hype around Garmin’s nuLink two-way connected nuvi 1690, the Nuvifone G60 and the Oregon 300 Mushroom Edition (pdf) here’s some interesting news for Garmin outdoor GPS owners who aren’t mushroom pickers. Yesterday I ran across a new post on Garmin’s TrailTech blog called Creating Garmin Custom Maps in Five Easy [...]
