Show 73: Caching ‘Vangelism
Listen To The Show (50:04) On our geocaching show today, we chat about milestones, LPCs and a new phone number. For our main topic, we talk about converting muggle-friends to geocachers and include some interviews with brand-new geocachers about their experiences and first impressions. NOTE: See more images from the show Hop on over to […]
Our 500th Find!
Wooohooo! We found our 500th cache yesterday. It took us a while to get here! We have some cool caches we’d like to do in the near future, but didn’t want to wait until we had the time to find them (difficult puzzles) for our 500th (didn’t want to stop caching until then either). So […]
Early Geocaching History
When taking a look at the history of Geocaching we see that it is still in it’s infancy in the whole scheme of things. In just over six years the game of Geocaching has evolved from that first ‘stash’ placed by Dave Ulmer on May 3, 2000, only one day after Selective Availability was turned […]
Show 72.1: The Caching Commute
Listen To The Show (29:11) The Caching Commute: On this geocaching midweek-podcast Sonny and Sandy travel to Ontario for the Podcast and Portable Media Expo and chat about: The Podcast Expo Other podcasters that we met – See photos A new voice mail phone number – 206 – A CACHER (206-222-2437) Put it in your […]
Sweet GPS Device from Apple?
While doing my daily sweep of the geoblogosphere today I ran across a post hinting at a possible future multifunction handheld device from Apple that may include a GPS. Apple’s iPhoto software has geotagging functionality built in already and according to the post, Apple has filed a patent for a handheld device that could include […]
Who Really Invented GPS?
There is an interesting article in today’s Miami Herald questioning who owns the rights to GPS technology. A defunct company called SPS claims that Motorola ended a joint venture in 2000 that gives SPS the intellectual property rights to GPS technology. Motorola claims that they gave SPS $5,000,000, paid for their offices, and paid employee […]