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[Egmont]

Hello Bokkie and all OzVGA user.

Could you please post your OzVGA settings?

I just installed it and love it for Excel, but for the rest I need glasses like the ones on your picture, coke bottle bottoms.

[nparker13]

Originally posted by Egmont
Hello Bokkie and all OzVGA user.

Could you please post your OzVGA settings?

I just installed it and love it for Excel, but for the rest I need glasses like the ones on your picture, coke bottle bottoms.

I'd love to see the results here...I dont even have it installed anymore.

Heres a pretty nice site for it though:
http://www.geocities.com/md.mason@sbcglobal.net/VGA/index.html

(Link credit from AximSite)

-nate

[Bokkie]

Egmont,

I have'nt reinstalled it since my last reset but at the the time when I last had it running, it was kefer who suggested setting the system font size to 1000 and disabling bold text.

He said this only had partial success on the main Garmin screen as the main problem we both had was that the icons got all mixed up and the text looked really awful. You might want to try that and see if yours looks any better.

[Egmont]

Thanks, the only reason for using it on my part is for Excel, just to get more columns.


PS Nate in what town is your College?

[nparker13]

Originally posted by Egmont
Thanks, the only reason for using it on my part is for Excel, just to get more columns.


PS Nate in what town is your College?

Quinnipiac University - Hamden, CT. (Near New HAven)

I'm Home in NJ for spring break now though.

-nate

[Egmont]

Well, we are neighbors, I am from Branford, east of New Haven on the shore.

[nparker13]

Very cool...its a small world after all! (for some of us United States residents ;) )

-nate

PS any recommendations of cool attractions/restaurants/etc. I'm trying to get a couple of friends to geocache with me up on sleeping giant state park across the road from quinnipiac, but were waiting until it gets warmer and until i get my GPS 10. I wonder if there is any fluxation between the gps 10 readings and an iQue's (w or w/o gilsson)

[Egmont]

Very cool...its a small world after all!

You are so right, specially with the WWW

I wonder if there is any fluxation between the gps 10 readings and an iQue's (w or w/o gilsson)

I can do that and maybe one better. I have a laptop in my Suburban and have DeLorme Street Atlas with it's own GPS. So I have three to compare.

I will play them up against each other this weekend. Gives me something to do while I take my wife Tag Saleing. :o

QUOTE]PS any recommendations of cool attractions/restaurants/etc. I'm trying to get a couple of friends to geocache with me up on sleeping giant state park across the road from quinnipiac, but were waiting until it gets warmer and until i get my GPS 10[/QUOTE]

Let me know when you are ready, there some lovley places along the shore line. I do not know much about geocaching, but maybe you can educate me.

[Egmont]

On my drive to work I put all three units on. All used external antennas, G10 on 4705, USB antenna on laptop, Gilssons on the iQue3600.

All antennas where on the dash with USB stuck to the window and all within 5 inches (12.7cm) of each other.

All readings where identical except for the last 3 digit group. In that group, only the last digit was off by only about 2 or 3 numbers.

This got achieved with the G10 and 7 satellites, the iQue3600 had 5 and all where 3D even the laptop.

I’m quite happy with result.

[nparker13]

Sounds good to me. I would hope they were all within the same range...But it must have been a funny sight with all of those electronics on your dashboard.

I am fairly new to geocaching. I started with my iQue, and hopefully will continue with my x50v and GPS10 (although the programs for geocaching are great for the palm os). Basically you enter coordinates of a location found on (http://www.geocaching.com/). You go to the area (say up in a mountain). Take some friends/family, and make a day out of it. You can hike (usually placed along trails), or depending on the difficulity of the cache do many other things. Once you get closer, I usually switch from queMap to something like cetusGPS which has a compass towards the waypoint. You then start looking. My first cache was a little tupperware container hidden in a tree stump. It is a lot of fun just finiding it. You get it, sign the log, leave soemthing and then you can take soemthing, and put it back. Its a fun activity. I did it with my parents and my dog before i went off to college, but now im going to try to bring a couple of friends up the mountain, and maybe even make our own cache.

-nate