PARK’N FIND
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Park’n Find from Affinicore is an iPhone app that helps you find your parked car.
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FREE GOOGLE TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
You can get free, spoken directions on the T-Mobile G1, the myTouch 3G phone, the new Motorola Droid, and coming soon, the Google Nexus One.
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THE ANDROID SPEAKS
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Google Maps with spoken turn-by-turn directions are free for users of the Motorola Droid cellphone and other Android 2 operating systems.
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THE BEAT BEAT BEAT OF THE TOM TOMS
Posted on November 23rd, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
One of our readers quite rightly complained about the cost of loading new maps into the road trip GPS systems. New maps for popular GPS travel devices like the TomTom run anywhere from $60 to over $100.
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ON THE ROAD…
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We’ve been driving around just outside of “Obama Town,” (Chicago), with GPS direction devices attached.
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LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Apparently, more people are lost than ever before. Because sales of GPS (global positioning) devices have been brisk worldwide.
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JOY AND BOB TRY TO GET SOMEWHERE BY GPS
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We connected the DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 receiver to a Sony Vaio laptop, installed their Street Atlas 2009, and started out to drive from our place to a shipping service a couple miles away. We already knew how to get there, of course, but did DeLorme?
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JOY AND BOB GO FOR SALAD DRESSING
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Later we picked another destination and switched to the Microsoft GPS unit and Streets and Trips 2008 software.
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WHERE AM I NOW?
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
What’s hot? GPS, that’s what’s hot. That stands for Global Positioning System, and what it means is you may not know where you are, but the spy in the sky does.
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GPS ON A CELL PHONE
Posted on April 12th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
If you’re a Verizon customer with a “Get-it-Now”-enabled phone, you can get global positioning software on your cell phone for an extra $10 a month or $3 a day.
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