Reviewing GPS loggers

August 13th, 2008 at 4:48 pm (GPS, Mac)

Over this coming weekend I plan on reviewing some GPS loggers.  For those of you who don’t know what these are, basically they can log various GPS data to their built-in memory so that you can retroactively extract where you’ve been and maybe even geotag any pictures that you’ve taken.

Unfortunately most loggers are not compatible with the Mac; however, there are three which have been recommended on various forums, blogs, reviews, etc:

1. AMOD AGL3080
2. GiSTEQ CD110BT
3. Qstarz BT-Q1000P

I should be receiving these units by the end of the week.  After some extensive testing I hope to write some in-depth reviews on each, describing what they do well and what they don’t; obviously, including how easy or difficult they are to use on a Mac.

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Upgrading to 2.0.1 via PwnageTool

August 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm (iPhone)

It actually went quite smoothly on my iPhone last week.  I really have no complaints, except for one thing, my colocation option doesn’t seem to be working only within Google Maps.  It’s really weird, but when I press the little “radar” button on the lower-left side of the screen, all it does is spin there.  It never shows that it’s grabbing data (either via edge or wifi) on the top status bar.  Thus, it never updates my current position.

I didn’t have this issue with my v2.0 Pwnage’d iPhone, so I’m not sure what to do.  I have repeatedly done a restore to no avail.  Does anyone have the same experience?  Or any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

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