Our friend Guillaume Bolo, the first in France to have offered for many years a very elaborate web interface presenting SHOM predictions – tide.info – is also the developer of the excellent app marée info for iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Copied but never equaled by SHOM itself, who ended up giving up, he will soon offer us a superb evolution… Read more …
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Weather4D 2.0.20 The unlimited charting
We had been hoping for it for months, were expected, We waited - or we grew impatient, it depends – well, There she is : the latest update of Weather4D 2.0.20 is finally available ! On the menu, a major improvement : Assisted charting download and unlimited storage size. To which is added a small number of highly requested features and some bug fixed…
Guide Escales 2017
J’ai évoqué en juillet dernier le Guide « Escales », 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 voit le nombre de modules réduit de 17 down to 12 pour la façade Manche-Atlantique, and 13 down to 10 pour la Méditerranée. C’est une heureuse initiative !
The Weather4D 2.0 new is arrived
No developer vacations ! J’ai évoqué les tests des nouveautés à venir lors de notre long périple from Corsica to Normandy last May. After several weeks of finalization, and mainly to adapt early to future iOS 10 disponible cet automne, here is the delivery of the new version 2.0.15 in Weather4D 2.0. Une addition de nouvelles fonctions très attendues.
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stairs – the digital version of Bloc Marine
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 …
Weather4D 2.0.11 A bunch of new features and improvements
Delivered in AppStore this morning after two weeks of revisions and contre-revisions of Apple services, Always more picky, The new version is finally available. On the menu and in bulk : AIS via internet with AISHub, direct access to Geogarage and cache memory chart management, new model of GRIB weather forecast from Meteo-France AROME HD for inshore races, mode plein-écran, advanced distance calculations, the most visible. Under the hood also a lot of optimization for routing and power consumption. Revue de détail à suivre… Read more …
iNavX and iSailor always offer more functions
The year 2015 barely started, the developers are already giving us the developments of their applications, probably made between two glasses of champagne during the holidays. I consider iNavX and iSailor as the two best navigation apps so far under iOS. These are the ones that offer the most extensive functions and the selection of the best charts. They each have their qualities and faults., and I take advantage of the new features brought by their recent update to try a quick function/price comparison.
Warning, this exercise is associated with a snapshot vision, valid today but quickly obsolete tomorrow, as changes are rapid in this domain. On the other hand, it is always difficult to distinguish between objective and subjective aspects in a comparison., I was already confronted in the past (¹). Read more …
Iridium Mail & Web became fully usable again
Since release Apple iOS 8 early October 2014 the messaging app Iridium Mail & Web app (qui a remplacé Iridium Mail & Web app) was no longer able to export an attachment to another application using the “Open in” function.… ”. De ce fait on ne pouvait plus utiliser un fichier météo GRIB reçu en pièce jointe depuis le serveur SailDocs dans aucune application, principalement Weather4D PRO.
Il aura fallu plus de 3 mois pour que deux mises à jour successives viennent corriger ce problème sévèrement handicapant pour les utilisateurs clients de Iridium :
[Update 21 November 2014] The version 1.0.6 corrige enfin ce bug, mais hélas en ajoute d’autres dont l’affichage en rotation.
[Update 2 of 6 January 2015] The version 1.0.9 corrige les bugs d’affichage et de suppression des messages (en supprimant la rotation, trop forts !).
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Compass Eye et SeaNav, good surprises from Pocket Mariner
During a search on the App Store for my previous post, I found out under the term "Simrad" an application that furiously reminds me of something. From research to research, I discover the company Electric Pocket. This British applications publisher Develops the Mobile Apps from 1997, andrecently the applications Nautical under the name Pocket Mariner. That Company is based in Wales, United Kingdom, and deals with partners from all over the world.
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Marine electronics manufacturers and the tablet phenomenon
A few days before the opening of the Nautic Paris boat show where, I remind him, I will be present on the stand iTabNav (Hall 2.1 – D31), An overview is in order. And precisely, in our immediate horizon we shall have, like every year, proximity to marine electronics manufacturers and their representatives.
At the previous edition of the boat show, I had noticed the reluctance – not to say hostility – of manufacturers towards the growing phenomenon of tablets and other smartphones on the navigation market. By dint of promoting these devices and their applications, I probably didn't just make friends in this business. However, Strong pressure from boat buyers, et donc d’électronique de navigation, a contraint lesdits fabricants à intégrer un minimum d’interactivité entre leur propre matériel et les appareils mobiles possédés désormais par une majorité de navigateurs.
Ce qui m’incite à faire un rapide point sur l’état des applications fournies et l’avancée des fonctions proposées.