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DIY Blue Water Navigation – Part 2 – AIS

As GPS is a perfect tool to track your very own location, it’s also very interesting to know who else is sailing in neighborhood around you. With not really complicated setup it’s possible – here comes AIS (automatic identification system), that is based on idea to transmit the identity information about ship on radio.  The [...]

DIY Blue Water Navigation – Part 1 – GPS

Having GPS (global positioning system) on board of cruise ship is a fabulous opportunity to feed curiosity about location, and speed of the ship and track cruise progress without asking crew rhetoric questions. In advance, the charts are also providing additional information about seascape, depth and surrounding landmarks and give you comprehensive clue what the [...]

DIY Media Center 2.0

Having increasing amount of HD resolution flicks, I have challenged my old media box more and more, until now, when I decided to upgrade it to the next step further. I got the notebook from my old computers pool, Toshiba Satellite 6100, that was not very useful due to the spoiled LCD (stripes of dead [...]