iPad / iPhone

14 March 2011 – 14 March 2024, a birthday (¹) which does not fall round, but a performance worth saluting ! Ce qui n’était qu’une startup aux débuts de l’usage des tablettes et smartphones en navigation est aujourd’hui Read more …

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, up to Read more …

The new GNS 3000 announced by Global Navigation Systems since last spring is finally available (¹). It replaces the GNS 2000 More. Now equipped with a Bluetooth transmitter 5.0, it has an SD Card slot for recording position data in Read more …

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 to Wi-Fi Read more …

(First published on 8 December 2010) Dear friends macusers, the approach of Christmas, we need to be charitable, particularly to users of Windows PCs. Indeed, in the face of the influx of requests concerning the methods of control of a Read more …

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 a purchased app on a second Read more …

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 Read more …

[Update 15 February 2019] The recent update of the Iridium Mail app & Web gives me the opportunity to refresh the ticket originally written in December 2011. RedPort's Wi-Fi Optimizer gateway allows owners Read more …

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 has Read more …

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 ago Read more …

The 14 March 2011 I had announce the opening of an e-commerce website focused in accessories, mounts and connexion devices dedicated to iPhone and iPad for marine navigation : iPadNav.fr. Since then, its founder and I have maintained close Read more …

For those who do are not yet fully convinced, despite my assertions in many posts (¹), Here's another example of the accuracy of iPad GPS, Cup of any terrestrial cellular network or Wi - fi. Already lived in 2011 Read more …

I have already written you the greatest good I think of andres Industrie's aiShell waterproof cases for iPad(¹). It remains for me the top of the protection in all weather conditions, at sea and ashore. Bulky and fairly Read more …

This time, it came up ! The new waterproof case for iPad Mini by Andres Industries, to whom we owe the famous iPad Case, is finally available. Smaller, lighter, more discreet, but equally robust, in the evening Read more …

This year, at Nautic Paris Boat Show, nautical press was not alone to be interested in the navigation with iPad, but also technical and general press. Pierre-Yves Lautrou, Express journalist and editor of the blog "At Large Read more …

I use an iPad 1 for a little over two years for two reasons : the first and foremost as a navigation device, the second as viewer for many PDF documents related to my job. I'm using Read more …

Le SeaSmart WiFi, presented by iTabNav.fr at the Nautic in Paris last week, allows a WiFi connection to iPad , iPhone or any other computer via WiFi to a NMEA 2000. Designed by Chetco Digital Instruments, to Brookings in Read more …

Avec Weather4D PRO et AxcessPoint, associated with an Iridium satellite phone, we now have a complete solution, reliable and low cost to receive, display and manage GRIB files in open seas with iPad. iNavX and Navionics Read more …

The application Jeppesen Marine Plan2Nav arrived on iTunes AppStore during September for iPhone and iPad. As I detailed in a previous post (¹), the Italian company C-Map has been owned 2007 by the US Jeppesen, leader in aerial mapping, dependent Read more …

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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 last September the Read more …

Bad news : changes in the price of Navionics charts for iNavX iPad appeared on the site x-traverse.com, and unfortunately for regions that concern us directly : Folios 46XG 43XG Mediterranean and Europe (replacing the old Read more …

My Fischer 37 "Lady Jane" is equipped at the base of a conventional antenna Raymarine GPS, the trio wind, depth, speed instruments, and a multi chartplotter / Radar C70 : In November 2010, Reading this blog has me Read more …

After my first post Crossing the Atlantic with an iPad here are some screenshots provided by Christophe Mahé between Panama and the Marquesas Islands, during its passage last month. Dream a little history, and convince the remaining recalcitrant Read more …

This entry was posted on Macworld.com by Glenn Fleishman. It explains in a very precise and didactic way the functioning of the location services of Apple iPhone and iPad devices and sheds light on the data that Apple recovers Read more …

I presented in the first article on the coverage tailored to the boat waterproof housing Andres Industries (*). This manufacturer has responded quickly to comments and criticisms of its product. He was kind enough to send me to Read more …

A bit of history Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LTD is private publisher of charts and nautical books the best known of England. It is also the oldest, heir of the first private publishers of nautical charts of the 18th century, the Read more …

IPad is not watertight, we know. Apple has not designed for that purpose, one suspects. The creative genius of Steve Jobs certainly not to imagine that the sailors would use its tablet as positioner / drive Read more …

This is an excellent initiative that we owe to Dominique Gauthier : iTabNav.fr is a brand new French e-commerce site mainly dedicated to iPad accessories (and iPhone) useful for maritime use of these devices. Rather than looking on the Read more …

Since the introduction of this new iPad and installing the new OS on my devices (iPhone 3GS et iPad 1), I wondered about the benefits that could draw boaters users, from the model and Read more …

In my first article on the iPad used as player-plotter, I mentioned two or three essential accessories to handle on board. The mounting remained unresolved, few products was then available. On board a Read more …

During a weekend of January a little sad, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide. We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself. Greeted by two Read more …

I start the year in a bad mood ! Unfortunately I have seen, through the experiences of many of you, ignorance, if not incompetence, many sellers iPad. Not only specializes supermarkets, but also in some Read more …

I cannot resist the urge to show you some pics (*) iNavX of an iPad just crossed the Atlantic, from Mediterranean to Martinique. The sailor has abandoned his MacBook Air, which it uses MacENC Read more …

The German company Bad Elf offers for sale since 28 October, Amazon and eBay, the first external GPS approved by Apple. The Bad Elf GPS adapts to the dock connector for Apple devices that are not Read more …

By creating a VNC connection (Virtual Network Computing) it is possible to control a navigation application like MacENC or OpenCPN from an iPad. This latter becomes an active screen repeater, and offers the possibility, not only view the screen Read more …

With iPad 3G finally in hands, iNavX equipped and (beta) XL version AyeTides during beta testing, I'm going to give you my first impression, previously to perform an extended test at sea. Read more …

The list of Navionics for iPad and their price is now available on-site x traverse.com. The good news for us western Europeans, is that the card sheets are the same price as those of Read more …

The company Fugawi, Navionics distributor through its website X-Traverse, has just released information on the forum on the new policy iphonesailing.net price maps, mainly on Navionics for iNavX 3.0 with iPad.

Since my post 20 2013, we looked forward to the dismantling of the iPad to discover its 3G communication components (3G, GPS). From the first delivery, our friends from iFixit rushed on the "beast" Read more …

A reoccurring question comes regularly by email from my visitors : which computer equipment to choose for yachting ? Actually, cope with the dramatic growth of material available for yachtmen, the Read more …

Can not join the chorus of comments on the Apple iPad presented yesterday. For our purposes, for us yachtsmen, this new touch pad does not seem to represent anything other than an iPod Touch with screen Read more …