Tag Archives: planning

Diving apps for your iPhone and iPad

Diving apps for the iOS platform come in a number of forms.  There’s the dive magazine, dive logger, dive planner and now the divers social app.  Dive magazines come in two flavours – either a downloadable app (such as DIVE and Diver …

Posted in Diving, Gadgets, holiday, iOS, Lifestyle, Travel | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Using Google Earth and Garmin Basecamp to plan bike and walking routes

There are a number of resources on the web that allow people to share GPS route information about mountain bike and trekking/walking routes. However, sometimes the route isn’t exactly what you want – perhaps you want to change the start, …

Posted in bike, climbing, cycling, Gadgets, garmin, google earth, holiday, iphone 4, mountain bike, mountains, outdoors | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Ulaanbaatar and gorkhi terelj national park


There’s nothing worse than after an awful train ride is to be awoken at 5:30am to only look out of the window to see a sprawling mass of smoke belching factories and what looks like very basic housing. Welcome to …

Posted in bogd khan, Diving, flickr, Gadgets, gandan, garmin, handpresso, hotel, Lifestyle, monastery, mongolia, national park, Photography, solar, Sukhbaatar, taj mahal, terelj, transmongolia, Travel, ulaanbaatar | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Should I buy an expensive dive computer for technical diving?

Plan a dive or run by computer? Recreational or technical?
One of the best things I bought when recreational diving was my Suunto D6 – not just because it was a nice looking watch but so that I could track …

Posted in computers, d6, Diving, Gadgets, suunto, tdi, technical, Travel, uwatec, vr3 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

iPhone and iPad favourite apps

iPhone apps:

360 Panorama – Occipital A great app to quickly capture a 360 image of your surroundings. Simply spin round and share with your friends via twitter or through the app (they’ll have to download it to their phone
Posted in 360, 8mm vintage, air video, app, app for that, apple, btfon, Diving, Entertaining, Gadgets, google earth, gorillacam, imovie, Internet, iPad, iPhone, itunes, mobile tv, panorama, Photography, plastic bullet, sky, tiltshift, Travel, v-planner, vnc | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Dive trip to Asia

Just a quick heads up that I’m planning a trip (or two) back to Asia to try out some of the “best dive sites in the world”.  On the list so far are (in no particular order)

  • Paula
  • Lumba Lumba
Posted in Diving, Lifestyle, malaysia, thailand, Travel | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment