Category : Material
Iridium - iPad connection – is coming out !
Le routeur WiFi AxcessPoint d’Iridium
I dont like to advertise products or features before they are available, but in this case the subject can guide choices or postponements of purchase among potential users.
Iridium announced on last 7 September the creation of a free service called Iridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web app qui sera disponible avant la fin de l’année 2011. This will be a mail and web compression service, hébergé par Iridium, spécialement conçu pour optimiser la transmission de données avec le nouveau routeur WiFi Iridium Iridium Mail. Read more …
Use an Iridium phone with Mac OS
British company Mailasail provides tools to connect directly an Iridium to Mac OS X. A driver specially designed by them now allows data to be transferred from a messaging application under OS, mainly Mail or Thunderbird, and surf the Internet.
We can make requests for weather files by mail from servers Mailasail, Saildocs, ocens.net or even Navimail. The subscription to Teleport-it provides several services : mail compression, access to the weather file server Teleport Weather (¹), Possibility of creating a personalized blog. In addition, there are two very useful applications : Teleport Firewall and Teleport Proxy.
Finally, Mailasail had the good idea to offer a free trial subscription, allowing you to carry out all the configuration that will follow, and to test mail sending/receiving following procedure described on its website. Read more …
iPhone built-in GPS : a formidable accuracy !
You have certainly heard the song by Helmut Fritz “It annoys me” ? She will make a good number of holidaymakers dance this summer in campsites and on the beaches. Well me, what annoys me, it is the disbelief of a certain number, still today, about iPhone GPS accuracy. Isn't it stupid, isn't it ?
I have performed a few days ago a small experiment, during a call in the charming little harbour of Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue. Read more …
Curious price changes at Navionics
Bad news : changes in the price of Navionics charts for iNavX on iPad have appeared on the site x-traverse.com, and unfortunately for the regions that directly concern us : Region 46XG Europe and 43XG Mediterranean (replacing the previous 23XG 2011) for iPad increase by +13% to $54 down to $61 (either daily exchange 38 € up to 43 € environ).
At the same time, however, Region 28XG British Isles lose -18% to $84 down to $69 (59 € up to 48 € environ). Good news for English browsers, and our fellow citizens who travel the beautiful coastline of the "Perfide Albion".
It remains nonetheless that, after a significant increase in early May with the arrival of editions 2011, it is surprising to see such rapid changes just at the start of the summer season, you'd think the stock rates !
AIS, the second maritime revolution after the GPS
AIS takes a growing place, for two or three years, in the concerns of leisure boaters. Several articles refer to it in this blog, as for equipment as for applications available for our Mac, iPad or iPhone.
Note to neophytes in this subject, or to confirm the knowledge of the most informed of you, it seemed useful to clarify what the AIS means, while just held in Hamburg, the 15 and 16 of June, the international conference AIS Summit. Read more …
Crossing the Pacific with an iPad
Après mon premier billet Crossing the Atlantic with an iPad voici quelques captures d’écran fournies par Christophe Mahé entre Panama et les Iles Marquises, during his crossing last month. Just to dream a little, et de convaincre les derniers récalcitrants sur les capacités d’un iPad à fournir une position et tracer une route n’importe où sur le globe. Read more …
Connect Miniplex-2USB with GPSNavX/MacENC
Multiplexer Miniplex-2 USB (¹) by ShipModul company can connect all the instruments on board directly to a USB connector on your Mac. GPSNavX and MacENC software can receive and display NMEA instruments, and if necessary forward to an autopilot, a VHF DSC, chartplotter, a Radar or any other repeater.
A “Miniplex2” utility allows you to configure the input and output channels of the device, choose from several operating modes, and offers advanced options for complex installation.
For a classic configuration the implementation is quite simple, and one Miniplex2 Help in French is integrated into software for detailed explanations of the various options available. Follow your guide… Read more …
Wiring NMEA 0183, not so easy !
In a very next post, I will explain in detail the implementation of a multiplexer (¹) Miniplex-2USB ShipModul's website. But before dismantling the electrical panel and taking out the toolbox, it is better to understand the subtleties of a connection that, at first glance, seems very simple, and yet can quickly become… a real headache. Read more …
How iPhone knows where you are
This article was originally published on Macworld.com by Glenn Fleishman. He explains in very precise and didactic way location services of Apple iPhone and iPad and sheds light on the data that Apple gets on our devices. As sometimes a small dose of theoretical knowledge does not affect, I give you here the full translation. Take your time, it's quite long… Read more …