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TitanPa 
"Here four more"
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 Posted - 03/28/2008 : 01:45:48
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I think I found a way to advertise this site and make it fun at the same time.
I dont know if some of you know about this site or are already members. Geocaching.com
Ill let you read it over, but for now I will give you the crash course and logistics of it.
Someone hides a cache somewhere in the world and have other members find it. You need a GPS to find the cache. Clue can be given to help find the cache. Within the cache could be a log book to write your name and such. ALso within the cache could be items that you can take and you can even leave an item of yours in it. Also within the cache could be a geo-tracker that goes by itself or the whole cache could be taken to be moved and hidden somewhere else. THere are lots of members on this site and lots of things hidden in many countries.
Now for my idea. One hidden on each continent...or each country. Within the Cache is the Password for a Fwiffer named GeoCacheUSA, GeoCacheUK, etc.. The log book, would be a fourum thread for just such members that find it. To tell us that they found it, where and who they are. Also THey will be told to submit 2 reviews (seeing that you can only submit 20 a week). THis would be a combined effort and it would be understanded that way. If they are still interested, they would create their own account to keep track of the Cache and to see if their own review gets passed. I also thought about maybe leaving a movie within the cache. So someone would take watch and review and maybe keep it and leave their own movie that they no longer wanted...but that would be just more complicated.
I have become a member of this site. I have yet to go searching for such cache. I need a GPS unit first. But this seems fun and I wanted to get people here involved. It could also be an advertisement for this site that more people would see.
What do people think? What does Benj think? Ideas? Comments? Anyone a member? Let me know. Thanx!!!! |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 09:12:00
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 09:31:56
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Um... isn't GPS for your car?
Not exclusively.
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benj clews 
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 15:39:03
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Um... isn't GPS for your car?
Nope- my last two mobile phones have had it built in and it's likely most other phone makers will follow suit. Mobile internet searching based on your current location is the ultimate Holy Grail for mobile manufacturers and the likes of Google and Microsoft. |
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 16:31:19
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Originally posted by benj clews
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Um... isn't GPS for your car?
Nope- my last two mobile phones have had it built in and it's likely most other phone makers will follow suit. Mobile internet searching based on your current location is the ultimate Holy Grail for mobile manufacturers and the likes of Google and Microsoft.
Does it come in handy? |
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benj clews
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 16:37:36
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
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Originally posted by benj clews
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Um... isn't GPS for your car?
Nope- my last two mobile phones have had it built in and it's likely most other phone makers will follow suit. Mobile internet searching based on your current location is the ultimate Holy Grail for mobile manufacturers and the likes of Google and Microsoft.
Does it come in handy?
To be honest, I thought it was a bit of a geeky gimmick- use it to plot your walk to the paper shop and the like- until the day I found myself bombing along a freeway on a moped somewhere between Chiang Mai and Bangkok with no bloody idea where the heck I was. Much like a map, it's no use whatsoever until you go somewhere you've never been before, at which point you wonder how you ever managed without it.
This stuff is only just starting to prove it's worth though- not enough people currently have a gps-enabled phone to warrant the wonderful services this could potentially offer. The iPhone (albeit with it's faux-gps) gives a small glimpse into what's possible however. |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 18:35:20
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I bought my wife a sextant one Christmas, back when we were young and dreaming of a voyage across the sea (in other words, before kids).
My mom asked what it was for, and I told her it's used to navigate using the moon and stars. She said "Do you ever think you'd be THAT lost?"
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 19:02:35
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/01/2008 : 01:03:14
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Originally posted by benj clews
iPhone
Talking of which, has anyone tried out F.W.F.R. on one? I am thinking of getting one because, even though I realise the Internet access is probably slow, it would probably be cheaper than Internet cafes - and because they're just so damned nice. |
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 04/03/2008 : 14:20:54
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Hey Titan, I've always wanted to get into geocaching. Looks like a lot of fun.
If you ever get a GPS, check out this site:
www.confluence.org
Basically, you find exact points of longitude and latitude (example 46N 33S, not 46.031N and 33.721S) all over the globe and write stories about how you got there. I have a friend who travels all over thje world and has found points in remote fields in China, Mongolia, Korea. In China, the village was so remote, all the kids ran out to look at him because he was the first white person they ever saw. It was hard to explain to them that the reason he was there was to find some imaginary point. |
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benj clews
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Posted - 04/04/2008 : 14:52:28
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by benj clews
iPhone
Talking of which, has anyone tried out F.W.F.R. on one? I am thinking of getting one because, even though I realise the Internet access is probably slow, it would probably be cheaper than Internet cafes - and because they're just so damned nice.
As with all Apple stuff, it's nothing groundbreaking technology-wise- let us not forget that before the iPhone, phones were getting smaller, we could send MMS and record video, get high-speed internet access and even change the battery without having to send the whole unit off for repair. Oh... and you could normally upgrade without needing to sell a kidney to afford the endeavour. However, the interface is highly-responsive, a joy to use and very shiny-shiny.
Right now, it's basically a question of if you want to pay the AppleTax for pretty pictures and a whizzy interface. Come June, however, the situation may change- that's when anyone can release software for the iPhone and we could well start seeing some real innovation. But by then, who knows what other phones may be throwing out (unfortunately for Apple, none of the whistles and bells this time around are as tightly-patentable as with the iPod's navigational wheel, so everything in their interface is up for grabs).
Personally, as a gadget fan, I'm holding off until at least the iPhone 2- the featureset and hardware don't yet justify the cost and I'd be losing too much functionality to switch from my current phone and losing too much portability dumping my iPod (who wants to jog listening to music with a dob-off phone bouncing around in their pocket?). For your average phone user though, if you have cash to burn, I can definitely see the appeal. |
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Salopian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/04/2008 : 23:07:01
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Yeah, I really just care about how F.W.F.R. is on it. I know that Facebook is fine, and I assume that Wikipedia is. I don't have any downloaded music, so I don't care how it is in terms of iPodness. I would rarely have any need to send M.M.S.s.  |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 04/05/2008 : 01:53:27
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Originally posted by Yukon
Hey Titan, I've always wanted to get into geocaching. Looks like a lot of fun.
If you ever get a GPS, check out this site:
www.confluence.org
Basically, you find exact points of longitude and latitude (example 46N 33S, not 46.031N and 33.721S) all over the globe and write stories about how you got there. I have a friend who travels all over thje world and has found points in remote fields in China, Mongolia, Korea. In China, the village was so remote, all the kids ran out to look at him because he was the first white person they ever saw. It was hard to explain to them that the reason he was there was to find some imaginary point.
Oh That. I reported on that while ago. |
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