Greetings!
With all of this renewed discussion about GPS devices, I got to wondering
whether or not any of my fellow letterboxers makes use of yet another
by-product of the new technology, namely, hand-held PDAs such as a Palm Pilot
or a Handspring Visor. Specifically, does anyone store letterboxing clues on
their PDA and then use the device out on the trails in lieu of printed clues?
If so, what program do you use? Is it a full text-editing program or a
read-only program?
It seems to me that one of the benefits of this approach - especially for
someone who regularly uses a PDA in other aspects of his/her daily life - is
that clues would always be available. Once they've been downloaded (or is it
uploaded?) to your PDA, clues would be with you all the time every place you
go (assuming, of course, that you take your PDA with you everywhere, like
your wallet or your purse or your backpack). No need to remember to print out
a bunch of clue sheets before leaving for that business trip to Ohio (with
time set aside for letterboxing, of course) or, worse yet, getting to your
destination only to realize that you left a pile of printed clues sitting at
home on the kitchen table!
On the other hand, PDA screens aren't exactly large and thus can only display
a small portion of text at one time, giving the printed cluesheet a distinct
advantage over a PDA in taking in "the big picture." A long set of
letterboxing clues would surely necessitate a considerable amount of
scrolling on a PDA!
Any thoughts about this?
Regards,
Alan from Axtown
"Time and direction don't matter at all..." - Dave Carter
Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-09-18
Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: (axtowner@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-09-18 20:37:20 UTC-04:00
Re: Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: ironman_bb (ironman_bb@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2002-09-19 01:26:44 UTC
I keep LB clues in my Handspring PDA. I do occasionally use it
while searching for a box. You're right, it's handy because all
clues are always with me. I just copy and paste a text version of
the message into the "memo pad" application where I use different
categories for different states. It's not as great as it could be.
My PDA crashes so often that I fear being far out on the trail and
suddenly losing the clues that got me there (oops). The frequent
crashes are actually a lot worse for more serious information when
I'm out of town, and just annoying for letterboxing. I look forward to
a PDA that's as robust and reliable as a piece of paper.
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., axtowner@a... wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> With all of this renewed discussion about GPS devices, I got to
wondering
> whether or not any of my fellow letterboxers makes use of yet
another
> by-product of the new technology, namely, hand-held PDAs such as a
Palm Pilot
> or a Handspring Visor. Specifically, does anyone store letterboxing
clues on
> their PDA and then use the device out on the trails in lieu of
printed clues?
> If so, what program do you use? Is it a full text-editing program or
a
> read-only program?
>
> It seems to me that one of the benefits of this approach -
especially for
> someone who regularly uses a PDA in other aspects of his/her daily
life - is
> that clues would always be available. Once they've been downloaded
(or is it
> uploaded?) to your PDA, clues would be with you all the time every
place you
> go (assuming, of course, that you take your PDA with you everywhere,
like
> your wallet or your purse or your backpack). No need to remember to
print out
> a bunch of clue sheets before leaving for that business trip to Ohio
(with
> time set aside for letterboxing, of course) or, worse yet, getting
to your
> destination only to realize that you left a pile of printed clues
sitting at
> home on the kitchen table!
>
> On the other hand, PDA screens aren't exactly large and thus can
only display
> a small portion of text at one time, giving the printed cluesheet a
distinct
> advantage over a PDA in taking in "the big picture." A long set of
> letterboxing clues would surely necessitate a considerable amount of
> scrolling on a PDA!
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Regards,
> Alan from Axtown
>
> "Time and direction don't matter at all..." - Dave Carter
while searching for a box. You're right, it's handy because all
clues are always with me. I just copy and paste a text version of
the message into the "memo pad" application where I use different
categories for different states. It's not as great as it could be.
My PDA crashes so often that I fear being far out on the trail and
suddenly losing the clues that got me there (oops). The frequent
crashes are actually a lot worse for more serious information when
I'm out of town, and just annoying for letterboxing. I look forward to
a PDA that's as robust and reliable as a piece of paper.
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., axtowner@a... wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> With all of this renewed discussion about GPS devices, I got to
wondering
> whether or not any of my fellow letterboxers makes use of yet
another
> by-product of the new technology, namely, hand-held PDAs such as a
Palm Pilot
> or a Handspring Visor. Specifically, does anyone store letterboxing
clues on
> their PDA and then use the device out on the trails in lieu of
printed clues?
> If so, what program do you use? Is it a full text-editing program or
a
> read-only program?
>
> It seems to me that one of the benefits of this approach -
especially for
> someone who regularly uses a PDA in other aspects of his/her daily
life - is
> that clues would always be available. Once they've been downloaded
(or is it
> uploaded?) to your PDA, clues would be with you all the time every
place you
> go (assuming, of course, that you take your PDA with you everywhere,
like
> your wallet or your purse or your backpack). No need to remember to
print out
> a bunch of clue sheets before leaving for that business trip to Ohio
(with
> time set aside for letterboxing, of course) or, worse yet, getting
to your
> destination only to realize that you left a pile of printed clues
sitting at
> home on the kitchen table!
>
> On the other hand, PDA screens aren't exactly large and thus can
only display
> a small portion of text at one time, giving the printed cluesheet a
distinct
> advantage over a PDA in taking in "the big picture." A long set of
> letterboxing clues would surely necessitate a considerable amount of
> scrolling on a PDA!
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Regards,
> Alan from Axtown
>
> "Time and direction don't matter at all..." - Dave Carter
Re: [LbNA] Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: (mindizney@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-09-19 06:45:03 UTC-04:00
Darrin and I have used our Sony PDA for locating letterboxing clues in a pinch! (That is usually when I forget the clues at home, or we just decide to find a box while out doing errands etc...). For a while, we couldn't look up any clues in Eastern CT because the web page was too big for our PDA, but thanks to Jay Drew, he split up the Eastern half of CT and we can access the site! The reason why we don't use our PDA all of the time, is because if we use it too much with our cellular phone, we would probably go over our allotted minutes each month!
Pam in CT
Pam in CT
RE: [LbNA] Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: Judi Lapsley Miller (judi@psychophysics.org) |
Date: 2002-09-19 07:45:41 UTC-04:00
I
haven't got a GPS or PDA but I've found a digital camera is handy to take
photos of the trail map! When we get lost we can then use "review" and
"zoom" to see the map. The rest of the time I use low-tech solutions just
for the hell of it.
Judi
(Psychokiwi #1)
-----Original Message-----
From: axtowner@aol.com [mailto:axtowner@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:37 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: axtowner@aol.com [mailto:axtowner@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:37 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
Greetings!
With all of this renewed discussion about GPS devices, I got to wondering
whether or not any of my fellow letterboxers makes use of yet another
by-product of the new technology, namely, hand-held PDAs such as a Palm Pilot
or a Handspring Visor. Specifically, does anyone store letterboxing clues on
their PDA and then use the device out on the trails in lieu of printed clues?
If so, what program do you use? Is it a full text-editing program or a
read-only program?
Re: [LbNA] Letterboxing Clues in the Hands of Your Palm
From: Kari Wallace (funky_chicken_2000@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2002-09-19 06:39:20 UTC-07:00
We tried it for the first time last weekend. My printer died a few months ago and we needed directions for a couple of new letterboxes nearby, so I downloaded them to my Palm and we were off. Since I don't use my Palm very regularly (or at all, for that matter), the biggest challenge was figuring out how to download them. Eventually, I copied and pasted the clues from the website into the Palm Desktop program on my computer and then just ran a sync between the two. It worked pretty well (except for when I was playing with the Palm in the car and accidently deleted a few lines of the directions). I liked the fact that I wasn't carrying a bunch of pieces of paper around.
I'm thinking in the future it might be kind of cool to try to download the maps and other information that are on-line for various parks so that we'll have all of those too. (I hate it when we get to a park and they have run out of maps).
Kari & Michael
axtowner@aol.com wrote:
Greetings!
With all of this renewed discussion about GPS devices, I got to wondering
whether or not any of my fellow letterboxers makes use of yet another
by-product of the new technology, namely, hand-held PDAs such as a Palm Pilot
or a Handspring Visor. Specifically, does anyone store letterboxing clues on
their PDA and then use the device out on the trails in lieu of printed clues?
If so, what program do you use? Is it a full text-editing program or a
read-only program?
It seems to me that one of the benefits of this approach - especially for
someone who regularly uses a PDA in other aspects of his/her daily life - is
that clues would always be available. Once they've been downloaded (or is it
uploaded?) to your PDA, clues would be with you all the time every place you
go (assuming, of course, that you take your PDA with you everywhere, like
your wallet or your purse or your backpack). No need to remember to print out
a bunch of clue sheets before leaving for that business trip to Ohio (with
time set aside for letterboxing, of course) or, worse yet, getting to your
destination only to realize that you left a pile of printed clues sitting at
home on the kitchen table!
On the other hand, PDA screens aren't exactly large and thus can only display
a small portion of text at one time, giving the printed cluesheet a distinct
advantage over a PDA in taking in "the big picture." A long set of
letterboxing clues would surely necessitate a considerable amount of
scrolling on a PDA!
Any thoughts about this?
Regards,
Alan from Axtown
"Time and direction don't matter at all..." - Dave Carter
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