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Just recently I saw that Simon Čopi, my friend and a co-worker from my previous company, is participating and representing the only Slovene team in Red Bull X-Alps 2007 competition - where you have your glider and your feet to cross the Alps (that's 850km). That's awesome and over here we are all crossing fingers for him. Go Simon! As a ...

I used to mountain bike a lot when I was keh keh younger These days time is more of a luxury and thus I manage only one or two rides per week. On the other hand, I am better equiped now. Sometimes I take my Qtek 2020 PocketPC, Pharos GPS bluetooth and use GPSDash (warning: seems like development stopped a long time ago) utility to display my ...

Microsoft has a range of GPS navigation products, such as Street & Trips, Map Point and Pocket Streets (did I forgot any?). The problem is that the former two run only on full blown Windows only (forget Pocket PC devices) while the later has no turn by turn navigation which makes all of three useless for in-car navigation. I mean who ...

If you are using either GPSDash or GPSTuner image GPS navigation software you'll notice that their map database isn't nearly as huge as OziExplorer's. That's why I've created a free utility that converts OziExplorer's map file to other formats. Note: It converts only map file but not the images. Download it from here.

These days I am evaluating GPSTuner PocketPC application. It displays your position on a map based on GPS input (and of course it has many more features besides this). The maps are basically normal bitmaps with calibration info added in a separate file with an .gmi extension. The thing is that there aren't many calibrated maps out ...