While TomTom has a bunch of these points of interest in their TomTom Home, it takes forever to download them. “TomTom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33 makes it way easier, just download the file and then copy the files onto your TomTom into the directory /North America. There should be a .ov2 file and .bmp file for each one […]

Been torqueing lots of hardware lately. After my sync catastrophe, my Blackberry refused to sync more than 3800 or the 7100 contacts on Exchange. So I had to wipe and rebuild it. Forgot a bunch of lessons, but to review, if you have to do this: # Download the latest Blackberry Desktop Manager # Make […]

MotionBased – GearReview.com. With the advent of Google Earth and Maps, there are going to be many applications like this. !>http://www.gearreview.com/images/mb_logo.gif! With MotionBased, you upload your GPS coordinates from a bike ride and then it plots the points to form a trace of where you roade.