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Well, currently there's no ActiveCaptain product for the iPhone so anything is possible. The iPod Touch doesn't have a GPS so that's one consideration. I'm very interested in apps that communicate with our ActiveCaptain servers so connectivity it important but that could be accomplished with...

It'll be pretty easy. Install the trial version first. That involves downloading an .exe file and running it when you have the device connected to the PC with ActiveSync (XP) or the Mobile Device Manager (Vista). Definitely get a little familiar with syncing to the PC first especially if...

Oops...one thing I forgot. I currently also have 2 AT&T accounts including an iPhone 3GS. Apple has done a lot to update and fix the things that I originally didn't like about the iPhone for boats. It still isn't perfect but it's getting pretty good. I plan on doing a variety of iPhone apps...

No need to ask...I'm in. First, there is an annoying thing that Verizon has been doing with their mobile devices with integrated GPS - they lock out the GPS to only work with their own $10/month street navigation software. Other GPS software (like ActiveCaptain Mobile) will work fine with an...

I have lots of experience with it :D but it isn't a WiFi antenna. It's a new type of inexpensive, wireless, cellular amplifier. You can read more about it here: http://www.activecaptain.com/GM/MobilePhones/BoostSignal.php There has been a recent blog posting from a cruiser who implemented a...

Hmmm...that's odd. Here are a couple of things to try: This will give you the version of Flash loaded: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507 This link will get you the latest driver: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ If the first link fails to give you a...

I'm sorry that I missed this posting - I would have responded sooner... There hasn't been any downtime for the ActiveCaptain server over the last 20 months. Occasionally, a firewall setting gets in the way of allowing access. I receive questions about not being able to access the site like...

Mad Mariner (http://www.madmariner.com) today released the first article in our series about using a mobile phone on a boat. We have 11 or 12 weeks in the series (maybe more - there's a lot to talk about!) - each week we cover a different subject giving some specific examples, web sites...

Final editing is taking place on the first 4 articles now. It looks like they'll be put up in June. They'll all be in an online boating "magazine" with one article coming out each week. The slant is all the things you can do with your mobile phone on a boat (especially a smartphone) and the...

Having a stronger signal is the point of the amp. It means that your voice calls will be more reliable and your data connections will be faster. 13-16 miles offshore is about the limit of what you'll get. I've gotten 20 miles off the coast of NC and 13 off the coast of FL. And yes, if the...

My wife and I are working on an 11 part series of articles about using phones on boats. It should start coming out in another few weeks - I'll provide references when it is available. We're doing it for another boating site. The second article is called "Got Signal?" and is about antennas and...

Thanks Jim! There's also a Windows Mobile version of it coming out soon and I'm looking into an iPhone version. I've been using the Centro myself for the last 2 months and love it. It's tiny, easy to use, has the best screen I've ever seen on any electronics, and has excellent voice phone...

If I read it correctly, it's $350 for a 5 dB antenna, cable, connectors and 802.11 USB modem. That's a lot of money for something that's not going to give you very much. 30 feet of cable plus the connectors will give about a 3-5 dB loss. This means that the antenna isn't really doing anything...

I can add some info about the GPS's being integrated with mobile phones today. I have a couple of them. The latest, an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTn II) has a real GPS chipset integrated with the phone - it does not use triangulation of the cellular signal. Along with WiFi, HSDPA 3G cellular...

Thanks for thinking of me. I'm a member of C-Brats and come here almost every day. My next boat is going to be a CD or TomCat. I've experimented a lot with cell and WiFi amplifiers. Last year I kept detailed records of cellular access using different amplifier technologies between the...

Probably the best way would be to use Find to get to San Diego. Turn off the red marina markers and green anchorage markers by clicking on the marker section on the left side of the map (that will de-clutter the display). Zoom in to the areas that you're interested in and look for Boat ramp...

We released version 1.5 of ActiveCaptain today (http://www.activecaptain.com). This new version adds a database of more than 3,000 boat ramps throughout the United States. I have to admit that this version was started because of feedback from many C-Brats. I know that 3,000 ramps is the very...

That is all I'm working on. Check out the "Coming Soon" section of our latest newsletter released on Sunday: http://www.activecaptain.com/newsletters/2007-07-09.php Almost all the boating-related software I've written over the last 6 years has been for mobile devices. I wrote three of...

Captd - definitely write to me off-forum if you haven't gotten it working. I replied to your comment and can't tell if this posting was before or after that. If you can't find my email address, use: jeff@activecaptain.com

Those are great fields for boat ramps. The first version is going to be more open text than that though. Some of that is due to experimentation but a lot has to do with obtaining info - a lot of what you want just isn't out there. Any of it can be expanded - remember that this whole thing is...