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Magellan ToughCase Review – What You Need to Know

Magellan ToughCase attached to car dock

Note: Magellan was kind enough to send me a complimentary ToughCase in exchange for this review. I’ve been looking at alternatives to the GPS Cradle from Dual I currently use for my iPod for a while now, and discovered some time ago that Magellan released something similar called the ToughCase. It also boasts an extra…

The Top Gagillion, Fafillion, Illion, Yillion iPhone Apps For Travel

Navigon

Even now there appears to be a lack of a definitive list of iPhone/iPod/iPad based apps useful for frequent travelers and travel bloggers. Of the few lists I’ve found on the Internet, they almost always mentioned apps I already knew about or had installed, including the native Google Maps. Seriously? To rectify this, I decided…

Living without a GPS

Despite my eternal love of gadgetry, I didn’t own my first cellphone until 2003. I remember before getting one I was always thinking, “I don’t need a cell phone, it’s not like anyone would call me since I don’t have any friends, wah wah wah…” But then I finally got one and now I can’t…

iPod + Geocaching = LIFE ALTERING EXPERIENCE

Garmin nuvi and iPod GPS Cradle

Update: The Dual GPS Cradle now has a cheaper version available without the navigation software NavAtlas (which I found worthless anyway). It is called the XGPS251 and has been price cut to $100 as of Christmas 2010. Two things to note, it may not work well with the latest iPod Touch release (the one that…

Slogging Through My BlogLog

Ok… am I the ONLY one who gets more than a little frustrated when trying to use MyBlogLog? I understand the idea behind it, but it gets tedious clicking on a reader’s avatar, then having to click not once, but twice just to see that user’s blog, and so on. It’s just a lot of…

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