Garmin Victor’s Vectors: A Better look at the Aera 796/795

With the announcement of the aera 796/795 I have been getting quite a few calls from customers wanting to know more about it, so we put together this great video to give you a closer look at all of the new features this portable has to offer. See the new 3D vision that shows your speed, heading, altitude, and course deviation, all with a realistic view of theterrain. Think about having an EFB with the ability to pull up any approach plate, sectional, or enroute  chart in the US to help you find a safe place to land. Take a look at the document viewer that is compatible with all types of documents including .pdf, .docx, .jpg,  .pptx, .jpeg, .xlsx, and more.  And check out the scratch pad which allows you to quickly jot down clearances.  With all of these new features plus all the great features that made the GPSMAP 696 a premiere aviation portable, there is no question that this is Garmin’s most capable portable yet.

The Gnucash mentor students

Gnucash, a free accounting program for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Macintosh OSX, had its second opportunity to mentor students in the Google Summer of Code program this summer. Two of our three students successfully completed their projects.

Muslim Chochlov wrote unit tests for several critical modules of Gnucash’s core Query Object Framework. This is an important first step to some necessary refactoring of the framework so that Gnucash can move from an in-memory processing model to a transactional database model allowing simultaneous multiple user access.

Nitish Dodagetta extended the experimental Qt GUI “Cutecash” (Gnucash’s primary GUI is Gtk+) by writing a unified accounting transaction entry window. The Gnucash development team is investigating Qt and C++ as a future direction for Gnucash, and this struck a chord for Google Summer of Code students: half of the proposals we received from the student applicants prior to the start of the program were for Cutecash projects.
Overall we were pleased with the progress we made this summer; we found that the successful students leveraged the work of their mentors and moved forward some important aspects of the project. We’re continuing to work with the students this fall, integrating them into the regular development team. Mentoring up-and-coming programmers is very rewarding, and we enjoy encouraging them to use their skills for altruistic goals.

The New TeleNav GPS Naigator for Android

TeleNav helps over 20 million drivers speak in addresses and businesses for natural-voice turn-by-turn guidance and onscreen navigation – plus get three route options! Or use the simplified search field to find restaurants, gas by price, ATMs and more, even when outside of network coverage.

TeleNav GPS Navigator has been overhauled to include new personalized, navigation features that’ll help you get to work on time and may even make the drive fun.

TeleNav GPS Navigator has a new personalized My Dashboard view that’ll pinpoint your location and let you see your drive times to home and work. These details include traffic information so you won’t be late for dinner or your morning meeting.

There’s also three new home screen widgets that’ll provide your current location, estimate your drive times to work and home and provide a quick access to search. Underneath the hood, new map information will render faster and include real-time live traffic and satellite layers. For those that dare to be different, there are even custom car icons that can be downloaded for 99-cents each.

TeleNav GPS Navigator will land on Sprint handsets running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will be bundled for free into Sprint’s Everything Data and Simply Everything plans. Extra features like lane assist, speed trap and red light camera will cost $4.99 per month.