Enjoy geocaching at Midwest Geobash

As a returning platinum sponsor of Midwest Geobash, we’re excited to once again be at Fulton County Fairgrounds with some of the most active geocachers in the world. And we can’t think of a better place to share the excitement surrounding all of Garmin’s newest handhelds and the latest developments at OpenCaching.com. So if you’re at the Bash, be sure to stop by Saturday’s “lunch & learn” with two of our product experts. Topics will cover an overview of OpenCaching.com, recent innovative features that have evolved through your feedback, and how geocachers around the world can help this free community grow. But don’t worry, if you can’t make it to Saturday’s session, you can still stop by our booth and grab some great OpenCaching.com gear – including special Opie Wants You! Pathtags for collecting and trading! Happy caching – and Bashing!

Mapnificient Is Very Good Maps Invention

Mapnificient is the best idea I’ve seen in a very long time. It allows you to pick your location, set an amount of time and then find exactly where can you go using public transportation in that time. Absolute genius.

I can see myself using Mapnificient on a daily basis, limiting my searches for bars, cafés and restaurants by time rather than space. And I can see myself using this for the next time I have to rent an apartment, to see exactly what areas are within 30 minutes of the Gawker’s office, which is my maximum time when it comes to travel in NYC using the subway or the bus.

It is so damn useful that it makes me wonder why Google or Bing Maps hasn’t implemented this yet. I hope Stefan Wehrmeyer makes an app for all iOS, Windows Phone 7 and Android as soon as possible.

Lifted from  Gizmodo

Multiple APK Support in Android Market

Google I/O  announced  plans to add several new capabilities to help developers manage their products more effectively in Android Market. We’re pleased to let you know that the latest of those, multiple APK support, is now available. Multiple APK support is a new publishing option in Android Market for those developers who want extra control over distribution.

Until now, each product listing on Android Market has included a single APK file, a universal payload that is deliverable to all eligible devices — across all platform versions, screen sizes, and chipsets. Broad distribution of a single APK works very well for almost all applications and has the advantage of simplified product maintenance.

With multiple APK support, you can now upload multiple versions of an APK for a single product listing, with each one addressing a different subset of your customers. These APKs are complete, independent APKs that share the same package name, but contain code and resources to target different Android platform versions, screen sizes, or GL texture-compression formats. When users download or purchase your app, Android Market chooses the right APK to deliver based on the characteristics of the device.

When you upload multiple APK files, Android Market handles them as part of a single product listing that aggregates the app details, ratings, and comments across the APKs. All users who browse your app’s details page see the same product with the same description, branding assets, screenshots, video, ratings, and comments. Android Market also aggregates the app’s download statistics, reviews, and billing data across all of the APKs.

Multiple APK support gives you a variety of ways to control app distribution. For example, you could use it to create separate APKs for phones and tablets under the same product listing. You could also use it to take advantage of new APIs or new hardware capabilities without impacting your existing customer base.

To support this new capability, we’ve updated the Developer Console to include controls for uploading and managing APKs in a product listing — we encourage you to take a look. If you’d like to learn more about how multiple APK support works, please read the developer documentation. As always, please feel free to give us feedback on the feature through the Market Help Center.