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Puzzling Container Flaw

All winter long we  puzzling over a problem that has afflicted a series of small caches we placed last fall called the This Little Piggy series. We placed several of the caches in a camouflaged plastic spice bottles that we then suspended upside down from tree branches. We strung a wire through a small hole in [...]

Feedback Needed: Tech Talk – Software Goodies for Geocachers

This is a full draft  chapter from Joy of Geocaching. We need your input! What have me missed? What have we got wrong? What new stories can you contribute? Please comment or e-mail us

This chapter covers several of the most popular and useful geocaching applications, including GSAK, GeoBuddy and Microsoft Streets & Trips. We don’t claim [...]

GW VII Video: Close to the Vest

We pulled out the old Flip Cam at GeoWoodstock VII to collect interesting stories, tips and reflections about why people love geocaching. Here’s one clip.

Dragonflys of Halifax, Nova Scotia has an awesome caching vest.  His repurposed fisherman’s garb has places for pens, trackables, gloves, a knife, a flashlight, and just about everything else a cacher would [...]

Geomate.jr Aims for Simplicity

The GPSr market is a features war, with device makers competing to load up their devices with fancy add-ons like music players and digital cameras. These extras play well to the digerati, but what about the technophobes among us who just want to seek a geocache?

Mobile software maker Apisphere has teamed with Groundspeak and outdoor equipment [...]

Our Geocoin Design

Here’s the logo were going to be using on a run of geocoins for the release of Joy Of Geocaching. Will distribute them and eventually attend and make them available as prizes for some lucky readers. If anyone’s got any clever ideas for how to get them in circulation, we are all ears!

The [...]

What Software Should We Check Out?

We want to be sure we provide guidance on the best geocaching software applications.  We have an extensive guide to GSAK, an overview of Google Earth and a shorter review of GeoBuddy.  We also intend to try the geocaching.com client for the iPhone.

What are we missing?  What are the popular and useful geocaching applications that aren’t [...]

Recommended Reading – 1/4/09

A Groundspeak member writes, “I’ve written a tiny Windows Mobile program to get your coordinates from the GPS receiver and send these to the WAP site, so that the 10 nearest caches are returned. That’s all it does, so if a cache looks interesting you still have [...]

Recent Reading, 11/28/08

Did you know you can seek caches, get descriptions and even log finds from your WAP-enabled cell phone? Try out this site.

The iPhone isn’t the be-all and end-all of handheld geocaching aids. There’s plenty of good software available for the BlackBerry. One enthusiast has now created a Squidoo lens [...]

Recent Reading, 11/23/08

A spirited debate has been proceeding on Groundspeak forums over the question of whether too many cache owners are using micros as a way to get around having to make really clever hides. Maybe you’ll want to contribute your opinion!

Recent Good Reading

There’s a vigorous discussion on Groundspeak Forums about how many caches a single person can find in 24 hours. One person claims to have found 12,845 in a 24-hour period. This we don’t believe.

It was a podcast by The Boston Globe back in 2005 that first got [...]