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Christmas shopping at the Nautic Paris

Posted on9 December 20167 th 20256 comments

For the first time since 5 years I'm not moving to the Paris Nautic boat show. And for the first time I am not "glued" ten hours a day to a 9 m². And so for the first time I take the time to be interested - remotely, without jostling, without air conditioning, without pollution in Paris – to various products related to my field of investigation and which have caught my attention.

Some concern security, others useful accessories, all of them have to do with mobile devices, smartphones or tablets, and some are really innovative.

Guide Escales 2017

Posted on5 December 201614 July 2023One comment

I have mentioned last July the "Stopovers" Guide, digital version of Bloc Marine published by the Figaro Group. It seems that the remarks I made on the excessively fragmented division of these guides were heard : The version 2017 has the number of modules reduced by 17 down to 12 for the Channel-Atlantic coast, and 13 down to 10 for the Mediterranean. It is a welcome initiative !

iNavX 5.0 from Charybde to Scylla

Posted on23 November 201615 August 20247 comments

The major update 5.0 of iNavX, issued late August, was unfortunately a long and painful labor for new developers, and a succession of whirlpools and reefs for users. Among the many bugs and regressions laboriously fixed by successive builds, the worst part was the total loss of charts for almost all of us. This is, repeatedly. To top it all off the recent migration, this month, of charting server X-Traverse to a new website ~~Fugawi~~ much more user-friendly, didn't make things easy. Some explanations are necessary. Read more …

GALILEO and Apple mobiles

Posted on17 October 20168 th 20244 comments

Less than a month before the launch by Ariane 5 of four new satellites carrying the GALILEO constellation to 18 satellites, manufacturers of tracking components have already presented their new tracking chips supporting European GNSS. This allowed the Spanish company BQ to offer the first “Galileo-ready” smartphone at the beginning of September., equipped with processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 652, l’Aquarius X5 Plus.

We might have expected to find the same chip in the iPhone 7 from Apple, which has since fitted the iPhone 4S and the iPad 3 all of its mobile devices with Qualcomm communications processors, integrating GPS reception (US) and GLONASS (Russian), it's nothing. With this latest smartphone, Apple reconnects with Broadcom, sidelined since 2012 to perform these functions, by integrating a chip BCM47734.

Miniplex-3Wi-N2K : Major updates

Posted on16 th 201631 th 20253 comments

ShipModul manufacturer comes to provide on his website two major updates to dowload for its multiplexer Miniplex-3 :

Firmware Miniplex-3 V.1.17
Firmware Wi-Fi V.1.5.0.3

The two update files, featured with a procedure (in English), are packaged in a single folder WiFi V1.5.0.3. Download. The implementation can only be done with the configuration utility MPX-Config V.2.1.0 minimum, available in PC and Mac versions. Read more …

The Weather4D 2.0 new is arrived

Posted on14 August 20166 th 202413 comments

No developer vacations ! I talked about testing the new features to come during our Long journey from Corsica to Normandy last May. After several weeks of finalization, and mainly to adapt early to future iOS 10 Available this fall, here is the delivery of the new version 2.0.15 in Weather4D 2.0. An addition of long-awaited new features.

GPS and iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular

Posted on23 July 20166 th 202415 comments

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

stairs – the digital version of Bloc Marine

Posted on20 July 20162 th 2024

At the beginning of this year I wrote the greatest good I thought of the Digital Almanac, the digitized version of Reed’s Nautical Almanac. The Figaro group, Publisher of the website www.figaronautisme.fr, owner of Météo-Consult / The Weather Channel and Logbook – Marine Block, Published since the end 2014 "Stopover Guides", the digitized version of the Marine Block on the iBook Store. Read more …

Roseanor, 2000 nautical miles against the grain around Europe

Posted on15 June 20164 December 20216 comments

Conveying a boat from Corsica to Normandy in May, it's a bit like going around the world upside down from East to West, but more modest. Two thousands nautical miles on the water against winds and tides, four and a half weeks at sea, with thirteen days forced stopover awaiting for good weather conditions, three hundreds and fifty hours of engine to support the sails, 1000 litres of diesel oil, multiple Corsican, Spanish and Portuguese wines bibs, to calm our nerves, A few packs of water to quench thirst, and hundreds of hours of testing the new features in development of… Weather4D Routage & Navigation !

Navionics Boating 9.0 update on what's new

Posted on14 June 201612 August 20207 comments

Updated on 17 May, Navionics Boating presents some modifications, in presentation and functionalities.

First of all only subsist Navionics Boating for iPhone and "Boating HD" » for iPad. The old names have disappeared, happily because confusion was great. Version purchased with built-in charting has the name of the region, for example "Europe HD" for iPad. On the other hand, there is a free version called "Seas and Lakes" which allows to test then buy a chart of the area of choice, and additional options. Read more …