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Your car's GPS is great to get you around town or maybe take along when you rent a car on vacation, but did you ever think to use your car GPS as a pocket guide for walking and wandering tours? Here's how to teach your old GPS some new tricks. Read more...

In an (competitor)-car GPS and it was a real learning experience. Read more...

I'd call it the iPhone effect, but maybe that's too Apple fanboy even for me, however the reality is with technologies like Microsoft's Sync the line between all our computing environments is getting rather blurry. Read more...

I've been a GPS and in-car navigation fan for years...mostly because I can't navigate my way out of a wet paper bag, so my wife'd have you believe Which is why when I was given the opportunity to take a look at the TomTom GO630 navigation system, I jumped at the chance. Read more...

My pal, John Biehler, has been talking a lot lately about his new car, the Kia Soul. You could describe it as the SUV of the Mini Cooper. It's a little bigger, has a bit of trunk space, but it is still a tight little package. It's a small fuel efficient car that's perfect for these green times, but what sets the Soul apart is the way it can get geeked out. Read more...

I got my wife a Garmin Nuvi 760 for Christmas last year. This is a rundown of what I like and don't like about our GPS unit to help you choose the features that are best for you when buying a GPS Read more...

Next to my iPhone, my favorite gadget is my Garmin Forerunner 305. I've had this device, in various editions, on my wrist when I run and ride for nearly 7 years. I've seen some Twitter chatter about a similar app for the iPhone and decided to test it out. RunKeeper is a free app (a premium version is available for $9.99) that lets you perform similar tricks using the GPS abilities of your iPhone. Read more...

A healthy, balanced lifestyle means that you don't spend your day behind a keyboard or attached to gadgets...or does it? Read more...