GPX en GPS: Gebruik de juiste kaart! (Dutch)

GPX / Travel / Dutch.

Wanneer je routes deelt met anderen, of routes van anderen gebruikt, is het belangrijk om de route te controleren, en de juiste kaart te gebruiken!

Tom Tom Go App (Android) / Tom Tom Routeplanner (web) Navigation Issues

GPX / Travel.

In my initial turn by turn Android app search I found MRA Navigator to be the best. Tom Tom Go almost made it, but failed in sight of the finish. I was wondering what was happening, and decided to dive a little deeper. And maybe it would pass this time?

(On the fly I found a way to edit Garmin / MRA Routeplanner generated files in the Tom Tom Planner web app. Yes, this is going to get a little nerdy.)

MRA Navigator app settings / MyRoute-app (Android)... and a bit of MRA Routeplanner

GPX / Travel.

The MRA Navigator app (MRA Next? oh whatever) is thus far one of the few apps that passed my 'smart waypoint skipping' test.

It's not perfect, but it works!

Turn by Turn Navigation for Touring - Looking for the Better App / Smart Waypoint Skipping

GPX / Travel.

Obviously, there won't be something like 'the best' app, as everyone has a different goal and wish list. But after looking at so many websites and apps I still found it impossible to pick out the right app.

One thing I knew though: it needed some sort of smart waypoint skipping.

So I decided to simply test a few different apps.

Google Maps - Using Coordinates

Travel.

Did you know Google Maps can use coordinates instead of addresses? And navigate between them? That's handy to share a location without an address, like a parking area, or just a tree in the middle of a meadow, next to nowhere.

GPX naar Google Maps (Dutch)

GPX / Travel / Dutch.

Gisteren heb ik gekeken naar een aantal PC en online gebaseerde tools, en daar hoort natuurlijk Google Maps ook bij. Google Maps is gratis en navigeert erg goed, maar wil je data uitwisselen met iets anders, dan heeft dat wat aandacht nodig... en werkt het uiteindelijk amper, helaas.

GPX Bestanden en Programma's voor de PC (Dutch)

GPX / Travel / Dutch.

GPX (GPS eXport) files zijn log-bestanden / route-bestanden (in XML formaat) en worden vaak voor wandeltochten, fietstochten en auto tour-tochten gebruikt.

Deze post gaat over mijn voorlopige ervaringen met software en hardware, en dan met name onder Windows. (Al zijn de helft van de tools web based 😏)

Rick Partlow - Drop Trooper 1 - Contact Front

Audiobook Review.

Your typical, macho, space marine novel, but it's readable.

The obligatory bootcamp scenes aren't overly extended, and the techno babble is within limits and believable. Meeting up with an older woman is something you rarely see in these kind of stories, and the enemies - though still faceless - aren't outright evil, just... culturally and biologically different.

AI Maakt Solliciteren Gemakkelijker en Recruiters Overbodig (Dutch)

AI / Column / Wallpaper / Dutch.

Zie de afbeelding hieronder, door iemand ergens 'gevonden' op het internet, en geplaatst op LinkedIn met de stelling dat AI het hele proces van het zoeken van banen tot het vinden van de juiste kandidaat 'zoveel beter maakt'.

Maar is dat eigenlijk wel zo?

AI Makes Job Applications Easier and Recruiters Superfluous

AI / Column.

See the image below, found by someone 'somewhere' on the internet, and placed on LinkedIn stating that AI would simplify the whole process from searching for a job to recruiting the right candidate.

But is that the case?

Creating Shortcuts to Batchfiles in Windows 11

Windows 11.

Why make things easy... You can only create links to .exe files now on Windows 11, but there's a way around that as well. It just takes a little effort.

Here's how to create a taskbar shortcut to a batch file in Windows 11:

Top Network Security Security Cheat Sheet

Datatalk.

Found on LinkedIn.

Click on image to enlarge.

More cheat sheets.

Disney+ - Shogun 2024 - episodes 1, 2 & 3

Series Review.

It's 2024 now, and there's a new Shogun in town (excuse me the pun). Shogun.

I review a lot of older stuff, so it's time to do something more up to date 😇 It's not completely fair to call watching two episodes of Shogun a 'series review', but, well, let's say a review of two episodes is still a review 😏

The Typewriter

Music / YouTube.

The 1950 Typewriter by Leroy Anderson is by itself unique and crazy.

In 1963 Jerry Lewis used it in the movie Who's Minding the Store.

Over the years there have been multiple performances by real orchestras and other... enthusiasts.

And some of those are great. Try this one.

De Meest Gevaarlijke Auto Ooit - De Volkswagen MK8 (Dutch)

Column / Dutch.

Nou ja, misschien niet de meest gevaarlijke auto ooit... Die 'eer' gaat waarschijnlijk naar de Ford Pinto, de Mitsubishi Spacestar (da's een raar verhaal, maar wel de auto met de meeste doden in de US), en de Reliant Robin.

Maar nu dus de Volkswagen Golf MK8. Man, wat is dat een gevaarlijk ding.

Appleseed

Anime Review.

With four movies and a thirteen episode television series many of us must have caught at least a glimpse of Appleseed. Or at leats of one of it's main characters Briareos. Aka bunny-ears. Just kidding 😇

Stitchers (2014)

Series Review.

How about diving into other people's minds... Could be fun, right? Here's the 'slip into someone's mind' 2014's Stitchers which I would rapidly exchange for a remake of VR5.

In Stitchers the main character gets 'stitched' into the memories of dead people, helping to solve crimes (typically, ttrying to find out the reasons why those people died). It's a procedural, after all...

Wallpaper - Vuur Kat (Dutch)

Wallpaper / Dutch.

Deze is getekend door mijn dochter, en werkt geweldig als wallpaper op een telefoon, maar ook op een normaal scherm.

Wil je deze afbeelding ergens anders voor gebruiken, neem dan even contact op.

Klik op de afbeelding om te vergroten / Meer wallpapers