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Monday Tip - Apps For The Outdoors
By Jon on 07/02/2011 13:45:34
This week, we pick out some cool apps to enhance your outdoors experience.
This week's tip is about using smartphones and, in particular, the ubiquitous iPhone, in the outdoors – when Apple says 'there's an app for that', it's not joking, there are plenty of options out there to make your life easier
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Garmin Launches Garmin Fit App
By Jon on 26/10/2011 12:09:06
New app for iPhone and Android allows work-out tracking and sharing with option to add more sophisticated data via ANT+
Garmin has launched Garmin Fit, an app for iPhone and Android platforms which allows users to track speed, pace, distance, time and calories during an outing or training session and, with a new Garmin adaptor, display and track heart rate
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Mountain Steps UK App Review
By Jon on 12/10/2011 12:25:48
Snowdon Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis beta plus loads more in a handy smartphone app.
There are plenty of outdoors-orientated smartphone apps out there, but most of them are quite focussed in scope - GPS mapping and tracking apps are probably the most popular, followed by dedicated ones that, say, teach you how to tie knots, give you
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Mapping Apps Go 3D
By Jon on 30/05/2012 11:30:40
Maps 3D smartphone app shows your position and track on 3D topo maps worldwide.
There's plenty of choice when it comes to mapping apps these days, but Maps 3D from German developer Movingworld is a bit different in that it shows your track and position on three-dimensional mapping making it much easier to visualise the terrain
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Garmin Launches Free Geocaching App
By Jon on 03/05/2011 12:53:23
App allows smartphones to access OpenCaching.com and track down hidden caches using in-built GPS.
GPS specialist Garmin has released a free geocaching app for both iPhone and Android, which puts the Garmin's OpenCaching.com web site's functionality onto your smartphone.Geocaching might sounds a bit nerdy, but we tried it a year or so back
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Snowdonia Safety Launch Highlights App
By Jon on 13/02/2012 12:30:12
A North Wales mountain safety initiative launch focuses on a handy smartphone app.
A relatively new smartphone app is one of the elements of a mountain safety campaign being launched in Snowdonia today and aimed at reducing the number of mountain rescue call-outs from under-prepared walkers.The app is called the Mountain Info
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New Free Posing Productions App
By Jon on 18/08/2011 15:25:36
Images, info and trailers from Al Lee's Posing Productions empire on new free iPhone/iPad app.
Posing Productions, the company in front of award-winning outdoors film-maker and photographer, Alastair Lee, now has it's own free iPhone app available right now.Films...Lee's the man behind films like the Asgard Project, The Prophet and PSYCHE 1
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Free iPhone App For Dales Launches
By Jon on 27/04/2011 16:00:13
Yorkshire Dales National Park smartphone app released complete with routes.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park has followed in the footsteps of the Cairngorms by releasing a free iPhone app aimed at maxing out your enjoyment of the area and including a load of stuff including a selection of walks and cycling routes
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Anquet's New Apps With Cloud-Based Synch
By Jon on 02/03/2012 16:38:34
New navigation apps for PC, Android and iPhone synchronise easily using new Anquet Cloud.
Mapping software specialist Anquet has launched a new family of mapping and navigation apps for PC, Android and iPhone platforms with the announcement of Outdoor Map Navigator for PC along with Anquet Cloud, which allows easy synchronisation
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Ordnance Survey Launches iOS App
By Jon on 11/01/2013 11:59:51
New OS Mapfinder for Apple devices is now on the Apple App Store. - check out our first impressions.
The Ordnance Survey has launched OS MapFinder, its own free to download mapping and navigation app - for apple iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch.The app comes complete with overview mapping of the whole of Britain, but if you want detailed 1
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