After checking out the guts of my Garmin GPSMAP 78sc yesterday I’ve had a chance to play with Garmin’s newest handheld marine GPS. For the most part the GPSMAP 78 is a Dakota that floats and employs real buttons instead of a touch screen. The size and layout are very similar to its predecessor, the [...]
In a nutshell, so far so good. I think back to the first weeks (or months?) after the releases of the Garmin Colorado and Oregon and I never would have left home without a backup GPS. This past week I traveled many miles with my Garmin Oregon 550t by car, by boat and on foot [...]
For the last few days I’ve been setting up the skeleton of a Garmin Dakota wiki. For those of you who use the Colorado and Oregon wikis the Dakota wiki should be very familiar. While the Dakota is starting to look like a smaller Oregon with very similar software features I’ve decided it would be [...]
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 [...]
One of the most frequently asked questions about the Oregon and Colorado is how the unit will behave when connected to different USB cables or USB power adapters. Sometimes the GPS will continue to operate as a GPS, other times it will enter “USB mass storage mode” which is the mode that allows you to [...]
From time to time I’ll post updates on GPS Fix when I make major modifications or additions to one of the wikis. Today I’ve taken the popular Oregon wiki Versions page and added it to the Colorado wiki. The Colorado Versions page is a summary of how to update your Colorado, where to find the [...]
