It looks like the edit capability on the 250 is very restrictive, you can only change things like the name and symbol or just delete it and start again. If you can get yourself a copy of Garmin MapSource on your PC then you can upload the favourites (older Garmins and MapSource call them waypoints), edit them and save them back to the 250. Garmin ship a free CD called Trips and Waypoints manager with lots of their units (but not the 250) , this contains MapSource s/w with a basic map of the world and you can use this to manage your favourites. Once you’ve installed MapSource, go to the Garmin web site and download the latest update but note that you must already have MapSource installed from CD before you can use the update.

http://www8.garmin.com/support/mappingsw.jsp

If you want to do some major housekeeping like deleting lots of older favourites that you don’t need anymore then what you need is to upload them to the PC, save as a GDB file, then do a full reset on the 250, this involves pressing the botom-right corner of the screen while you switch on the device, you will then be offerred the option to delete all user data so all of the favourites will be scrubbed. Then use MapSource on the PC to delete the favourites you don’t need anymore, modify the ones that need changing and download to the Nuvi, taking care that only ‘Waypoints’ is ticked when you do the doanload. If like me you have been using Garmins for several years and have built up hundreds of favouries you will need to do this now and then to stay below the limit of 500 waypoints, manually deleting favourites one by one is very tedious on the 250.

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I haven’t been able to do it from the unit either, however, what I did find was that if you copy the current.gpx file in the GPX folder of the 250 onto your pc, then open it in excel as a read only workbook it gives you the name, lat, lon, elevation etc of your saved favourites!

Might be the same of the 660. But be sure to copy, not move, as you dont want to screw up the original.

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Getting coordinates of Favorite

I think this can be done as follows:

Start by turning on GPS Simulator (equivalent to antenna down).

Use Where to? to select the favorite.

Show the corresponding map.

Touch the screen where the favorite is

Press “Set Loc” (placing your vehicle at the favorite)

Go back to the main screen

Press “Where to?”

Select “Coordinates”

These will be the coordinates of your favorite (at least to the resolution of

your screen touch above).

Posted 2 months ago

Top Cydia Repos / Sources List 2011 – 2012 iOS 5.0 / 5.0.1 / 5.1

http://www.spiritjb.org/2011/10/top-cydia-repos-sources-list-2011-2012.html

Top Cydia Repos / Sources List 2011 – 2012 iOS 5.0 / 5.0.1 / 5.1

By Mohamed Sabry On October 13, 2011

Top Cydia Repos for iOS 5 ? What is the best and Top Cydia Repos / Sources List on 2011 and 2012 – AKA – Repository for your iPhone 4S – 4 – 3GS – 3G, iPod Touch and iPad 1 and Ipad 2 to find almost any free, paid or cracked app and it will Supported for iOS 5.0, iOS 5.0.1, iOS 5.1 and iSO 5.2.

For those who don’t know, Cydia is a home of all those iPhone apps which are rejected by Apple due to their incompliance with App Store policies. The main purpose of Cydia is to provide all jailbroken iPhone users with software and operating system tweaks which are not available via official App Store.

Top Cydia Repos / Sources List 2011 – 2012

BigBoss Repo:

ModMyi.com Repo:

Telesphoreo Tangelo Repo:

iSpazio Repo:

http://ispaziorepository.com/

Cydia.Hackulo.Us Repo:

http://cydia.hackulo.us/

SiNfuL iPhone Repo:

http://sinfuliphonerepo.com/

xSellize Repo:

http://Cydia.xsellize.com/

iPhoneCake Repo:

http://cydia.iphonecake.com/

InsanelyiPh0ne Repo:

http://repo.insanelyiph0ne.com

Your Cydia Repo:

http://yourcydiarepo.org

iHacksRepo:

http://ihacksrepo.com

HackYouriPhone Repo:

http://repo.hackyouriphone.org

BiteYourApple Repo:

http://repo.biteyourapple.net

iPhoneCake Repo:

http://cydia.iphonecake.com

P0dulo Repo:

http://p0dulo.com

Posted 2 months ago

“Yours faithfully” or “Yours sincerely”?

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/yours-faithfully-or-yours-sincerely/

“Yours faithfully” or “Yours sincerely”?

by Maeve Maddox

In 1928 H. W. Fowler listed these phrases and their uses:

Yours faithfully (to unknown person on business)
Yours truly (to slight acquaintance)
Yours very truly (ceremonious but cordial)
Yours sincerely (in invitations and friendly but not intimate letters)

With slight variations between British and American usage, these forms are still in use.

If you don’t know the name of the recipient…

Yours faithfully is British usage. It is used when the recipient is not addressed by name, as in a letter with a “Dear Sir” salutation. I have never seen it in correspondence between Americans. That’s not to say it won’t catch on. I’ve come across letter-writing guides on the web that imply that it is standard American usage.

Yours truly is the American equivalent of “yours faithfully” that I was taught by my American business teachers. When I begin a letter “Dear Sir,” I close it with “Yours truly.”

When you do know the name of the recipient…

Yours sincerely is also British. Americans tend to reverse the order and writeSincerely yours.

When I worked in England, I was told that to write Sincerely without theYours was very bad form. Now, of course, Sincerely is a common and acceptable close for American business letters.

Which words to capitalize…

Only the first word is capitalized:

Yours faithfully,
Yours sincerely,
Sincerely yours,

Posted 2 months ago

Installing XP on CQ40-152tu, need HELP!

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and/Installing-XP-on-CQ40-152tu-need-HELP/td-p/20303

Installing XP on CQ40-152tu, need HELP!

01-13-2009 06:45 AM

I recommend you to stay with VISTA.

This model use IDT sound chip and ENE CIR receiver that XP driver were difficult to find.

ENE CIR is critical if you bought remote control for this model.

Some of CQ45 and CQ40 users found they will lose control for brighness setting (Fn+ F7 and F8) due to incompatibility of QLB software.

However, If XP is critical for your applications please perform below steps.

First step

Your model needs ICH9 sata driver to be sliptreamed onto XP CD installer.

Use Nlite to sliptream ICH9 sata driver.
A good guide to sliptream sata driver, here

Note: do NOT use sata driver from that guide, your sata driver is ICH9 given below.

ICH9 sata driver,

The driver is located in iaAHCI.inf and is called ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller, here

Nlite download, here

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Second steps

Try the following drivers,

XP Drivers for CQ40-152TU

Intel Chipset,(install and reboot before other drivers), here

MS-UAA (required with a reboot before intel Video-HDMI, IDT Audio and modem drivers), here

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family Graphics (with HDMI audio driver), here

Installing Audio is the most difficult part, since BIOS incompatibility.

IDT High-Definition Audio CODEC Driver,

an update version from Microsoft Update Catalog, here

or

or if you wish to install HP IDT driver (VISTA), here , some user reported it also works with XP

or try the new version here

Note:

Some of CQ45 and CQ40 users need to update their BIOS to solve Audio that disappeared after rebort.

If you found your BIOS is lower than F24, update your BIOS to the latest version, here

High-Definition Audio (HDA) Modem Installer and Driver, here or use your vista driver, here

Broadcom Wireless, here

Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC, here

JMB38X Card Reader Host Controller Driver, here

ENE CIR Receiver (your Vista driver), here

or if it does not work try Vista driver verified from Intel, here

ALPS Touchpad Driver, here

Install .Net Framework before Quick Launch Buttons software, here

HP Quick Launch Buttons, here

If you had Bluetooth, here

If you had for 7 unknown devices (buttons drivers), here

Installation —> right click machine.inf, choose install.

Good luck

Posted 3 months ago

How To Connect Your Unifi Set-Top Box Wirelessly

http://www.tvsmith.my/how-to-connect-your-unifi-set-top-box-wirelessly/

How To Connect Your Unifi Set-Top Box Wirelessly

Posted 3 months ago

Drupal CMS system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal

Drupal ( /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.^[2]^[3]^[4] It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide^[5]^[6] ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.^[7] It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to content management systems. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS-feeds, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can be used as a brochureware website, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content.

As of February 2012 there are more than 9,500 free community-contributed addons, known as contrib modules, available to alter and extend Drupal’s core capabilities and add new features or customize Drupal’s behavior and appearance. Because of this plug-in extensibility and modular design, Drupal is sometimes described as a content management framework.^[3]^[8] Drupal is also described as a web application framework, as it meets the generally accepted feature requirements for such frameworks.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.^[9]

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee orNginx) and a database (such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB or Microsoft SQL Server) to store content and settings. Drupal 6 requires PHP 4.4.0+ while Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.^[4]