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Local weather
Garmin have announced the discontinuation of many of their cheaper trail GPSrs.
This includes the beginner’s eTrex as well as the Colorado 400 series GPS receivers. This has possibly been caused by the boom in cheap phone GPSrs.
Look forward to some cheap GPS receivers coming to a store near you. 
Discontinued Garmin GPSrs here.
Tags: Colorado 400, eTrex, Garmin, gps
I just found a great little Wordpress plugin (via Podcacher Podcast) to display your geocaching stats on a Wordpress blog. You can add a widget in the sidebar (see the left sidebar) or you can use short codes to display you stats (see the bottom half of the About me page).
You can download the plugin from the Wordpress site. If you need help or info about the plugin, see the author’s site.
Two mistakes I made when trying to use this plugin: you need to upload the gpx file, not the zip file and when using the shortcode to insert stats, there must be no spaces between the ‘[‘ and the text.
“Happy Hunting!”
Tags: gcStats, plugin, statistics, stats
I still haven’t been out doing much in the way of Geocaching lately, this time due to the fact that I pulled a hamstring playing rugby 2 weeks ago. But, as they say in the classics, “Idle hands are the Devil’s tools”, so I’ve been working on something else in the geocaching field.
This is my first ever attempt at writing a macro for GSAK. I have no experience at all, but managed to piece this together from bits and pieces that I found on the GSAK website
The macro will take your finds from GSAK and create a banner from the data. You can then take the HTML created and paste this into your GC.com or GCA.com profile.
Why, I hear you say? Because I was tired of pasting a GC.com banner AND a GCA.com banner into my profile. And if you use GSAK for Waymarking, these stats will be included too!
If you want to see the result before you download the macro, looky see here.
Download file here. (http://snurl.com/hjl6j)
Thought I’d show off a little gadget that I made on Widgetbox.com. It’s basically an RSS feed of the latest caches placed in Victoria. Feel free to stick it on your website.
Get the Latest caches in Victoria widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
Towards the end of summer 2006, I decided to buy myself a Garmin Edge 205 ; a GPS.
This GPS is bike specific i.e. it is made for mountain-biking. It fits on your handlebars and records where you are going or tells you where to go. All very handy when you are out in the bush riding.
Then came the winter. And the wet weather. And the thick mud. And the mountain-biking stopped. So what could I use my expensive gadget for now. Geocaching!
Geocaching is a sport where basically people hide a ‘treasure’, put the co-ordinates on the web and then you try to find it. The treasure could be anything from a test tube containing a logbook to a big box full of stuff. In this case, you generally take something, sign the logbook and then leave something else.
Check out the website for more info.
Tags: geocaching, gps