Geocaching
5 July 2010
Falling short… Since I got my iPad, the only thing I’ve really lamented is it’s lack of GPS and 3G. Being the Wifi (read: cheaper) model, I had to make do with WiFi only. As usual, my tendency to over-analyse and get the most out of anything I have got the better of me, and [...]
11 October 2008
Finally, the official Geocaching.com iPhone app is available on the iPhone App Store. It costs a grand total of £5.99 in the UK ($9.99 in the US). The app promises to be the first to link directly into the Geocaching.com website and bring you real-time cache details based on your current GPS coordinates (unlike [...]
2 October 2008
After the last post I made, Geocaching.com have announced that they have submitted a Geocaching app to the Apple Appstore. It’s currently awaiting approval, but should be available soon. It will cost $9.99 (probably £5.99 in the UK). It basically does something very similar to iGeocaching, but allows you to do it online, so is [...]
23 September 2008
With my relatively recent aquisition of an iPhone (well, last few months anyway), I’ve found that I’ve been accessing www.geocaching.com a fair bit on it whilst out and about. Those who’ve tried geocaching will probably know that one of the major limiting factors to ‘on-the-go’ caching is accessing the information about each cache. The original idea [...]
25 August 2008
Being at a loose end on a Bank Holiday is not something that happens to me very often. Yesterday, my wife and me were trying to think of ways of making use of the day. We ended up phoning up Mr and Mrs Sparhawk and all piling into his car and heading down he motorway [...]
23 August 2008
Been meaning to post this for a while, just haven’t got around to it! A while back, the wife and me, along with two very good friends, went on a geocaching day out, and went to find a cache at ‘Chartist’s Cave’ in the Brecon Beacons. I’m always up for finding a cave, and to [...]