iPad / iPhone – Navigation Mac

GNS 3000 Bluetooth GPS receiver for mobile [Update]

Posted on15 May 202419 May 20246 Comments

The GNS 3000 to Global Navigation Systems is available since November 2022 (¹). It replaces GNS 2000 More. Now equipped with a Bluetooth transmitter 5.0, it has an SD Card slot for recording position data continuously.

Compatible with Apple products, It caters mainly to non-GPS devices : iPod Touch and iPad WiFi all models. It can also be used with all PDAs, Bluetooth phones and tablets. It has a Li-Ion battery offering an autonomy of 10 continuous hours.

[Update 15 May 2024] Warning : from iOS/iPadOS 17.x, a update of the device is essential. But it can only be done from an Android device.

Which iPad for navigation ? [Update-13]

Posted on11 May 202411 July 202465 Comments

Many of you ask me about choosing an iPad for boating use. Unfortunately having no time to respond to every request a post is required. Each year it is advisable to review this question, and sometimes more often.

With the presentation of the latest iPads on 7 May 2024, the chipset Apple M4 comes up on models iPad Pro 11″ and 13″, with 8 or 16 GB of RAM of RAM memory (depending on storage capacity). The’iPad 10 " low cost" price drop and’iPad Air 6 makes its entrance with a chip Apple M2 , 8 GB RAM and a screen 11″ diagonal. The big news is the appearance of a large iPad Air 13″ which complements iPad Pros with the same size. All of these devices are now built-in with the USB-C connector imposed by the European Union, and supplied with USB-C charger and cable. Read more …

iTabNav.fr always listening to browsers

Posted on14 March 20244 July 2024

14 March 2011 – 14 March 2024, a birthday (¹) which does not fall round, but a performance worth saluting ! What was just a Startup in the early days of the use of tablets and smartphones in navigation is now a company with a long history (²). Dominique Gauthier, its founder and manager, has participated for more than ten years in securing our iPads by becoming the exclusive importer for France of the famous cases aiShell (Originally “iPad Case”). Designed and manufactured in Germany, Waterproof and robust properties that no longer need to be demonstrated, with a wide range of supports and accessories to meet all needs at sea. Read more …

Simultaneous Wi-Fi and cellular connection [Update]

Posted on25 September 202017 February 20227 Comments

In coastal navigation, so often within range of a cellular network, we can download GRIB files, weather maps, or simply communicate with friends. But what if our smartphone or tablet is already connected via Wi-Fi to a multiplexer?, or an NMEA gateway, without cutting the data that feeds our favorite navigation application ?

This is the summer trick…

[Update 25/09/2020] The trick in question depends on the iOS version used. Details in the article.

Controlling a Windows PC from an iPad [Update]

Posted on22 August 202018 September 20206 Comments

(First published on 8 December 2010)

Dear Friends macusers, the approach of Christmas, we need to be charitable, particularly towards users of Windows PC. Indeed, before the influx of requests on how to control a Windows application from an iPad, not having provided a tutorial (*) for Mac users, I feel indebted to a small tutorial for windowsusers.

[Updated 22/08/2020]

Start with an iPad / iPhone

Posted on17 December 201714 July 2023

For all browsers start with the use of an iPad, and who do not yet know the basics of handling. For all those who ask me :

How to load an application ?
How to load an application purchased on a second device ?
How to delete an application and load it again without paying ?
How to update applications ?
How do I know that there are updates ?
How to download a book in iBooks ?
How do I know that there is an update of a book ?
Etc, etc,…

iOS 11 and navigation applications

Posted on3 October 201719 June 20219 Comments

Among the many new features provided by iOS 11, I particularly enjoyed the improved multitasking functions. The addition of a retractable "Dock" in the MacOS way, the "SlideOver" function associated with the "SplitView" function already present in iOS 10. This will greatly improve the use of navigation applications. Read more …

Iridium Mail & Web app : GRIB weather files on iPhone and iPad in open sea [Update-2]

Posted on2 June 20173 December 202216 Comments

[Update 15 February 2019] The recent update of the application Iridium Mail & Web app gives me the opportunity to refresh the ticket originally written in December 2011.

The Wi - Fi gateway Optimizer RedPort the company enables owners of a mobile satellite phone to query and receive GRIB weather files from an iPad or iPhone on the high seas, into the wild, anywhere on the world.

Having implemented and tested this solution on a long journey, it has proven perfectly operational. However, it is limited to receiving only predictions GFS weather model global, and model WW3 waves, obtained by the autoresponder US server Saildocs.

GALILEO and the Apple mobile

Posted on17 October 201616 April 20214 Comments

Within a month of the launch by Ariane 5 four new satellites of the GALILEO constellation to 18 satellites, manufacturers of components of location have already presented their new chips of location supporting the European GNSS. This allowed the Spanish company BQ to propose early September the first smartphone "Galileo-ready., equipped with the processorQualcomm Snapdragon 652, the Aquarius X 5 more.

We could expect to find the same chip in the iPhone 7 from Apple, that fitted for the iPad and iPhone 4S 3 all its mobile devices with Qualcomm communication processors, integrating GPS reception (US) and GLONASS (Russian), it is not. With this latest smartphone, Apple revives Broadcom, waived for 2012 to ensure these functions, by integrating a chip BCM47734.

GPS and iPad Wi - Fi + Cellular

Posted on23 July 20168 August 202015 Comments

Early January 2011 I wrote started the year in a bad mood (¹) After finding repeated incompetence of Apple sellers, during Christmas, concerning devices they sold, mainly iPad and iPhone. I note unfortunately as 5 years later, nothing has changed, it is to despair !