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 [...]
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 [...]
An Oregon user from Taiwan posted an interesting link to a screen shot which I thought was worth sharing. When the Oregon’s language is set to Chinese the user claims that spell searches use handwriting recognition to match Chinese text characters. From the post it sounds like the recognition is actually pretty accurate. Unfortunately [...]
A frequent complaint about the Colorado and Oregon 400t has been the inability to use the preinstalled Topo 2008 maps in Mapsource. Shortly after getting my Colorado 400t I worked with some clever folks who were able to make it work but the procedure wasn’t quite ready for prime time. After messing with this for [...]
Ever since the Colorado was released most owners have complained about how difficult the screen is to read. When the Oregon was released several months later it was actually a little worse than the Colorado. After using both units and following many discussions on the topic I believe that the issue is in part due to [...]
