Free Garmin Maps

I was looking for Free Garmin GPS Maps and came across the OpenStreetMap Project maps. Now all you have to do is download the gmapsupp.img file and put it on a SD card in a folder called Garmin and load the SD card into the Garmin Device. To enable the map go into Tools->Settings->Map->Map Info and deselect the maps you don't need and select the new map, or you can enable all.

These Free OpenSource Garmin Maps in gmapsupp.img format  are available for Central America, Mexico, Canada, Carribean



Site: http://www.osmmaps.com/

Or you may go to the Main site and generate your own IMG file for any part of the world.

http://www.openstreetmap.org

The third alternative(and favourite) is to use http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ Here you can select any area´s and multiple area´s in the world you want and generate a gmapsupp.img, Input your email address and the server will send you a link to download the file once its completed.

For example say you frequent Paris, New York, Vancouver, St Maarten and Africa; you can select all these areas and generate a .img file that you can load on your SD card and put into your garmin GPS so you have street maps of all these places on one card.

Select Area:

Receive Email with URL that shows Queue Length:

Receive Email With Download Link to .img file:

Download, extract, place on SD card in Garmin folder, and place into Garmin GPS.

Enjoy!


On a side not Garmin rocks, it is the best consumer gps out there! I have tried other gps´s such as tomtom and sony, they cannot be compared. Do your research if your looking into buying a gps, your best bet is to go with Garmin. I wouldn't buy any other brand even if there was a sale for 10$ for a brand new sealed in the box other brand GPS in any store.

Stream IP Camera to N770

Well I tried many ways to get to stream IP Camera to Nokia N770 Maemo, here´s how I finally did it.

1) Make sure Xterm is installed.

2) Install Wget , single click install file from N770.

3) Install MPlayer

4) Install Becomeroot

5) Launch Xterm, type sudo gainroot

6) Then type:

mkfifo stream.mjpeg
wget http://username:password@IPAddress:port/videostream.cgi -O fifo.mjpeg & mplayer -demuxer 35 fifo.mjpeg

add -aspect 16:9  to fill out the full screen(no black bars) so it would look like this:

wget http://username:password@IPAddress:port/videostream.cgi -O fifo.mjpeg & mplayer -aspect 16:9 -demuxer 35 fifo.mjpeg 

You should now be streaming full screen to your N770, the http link in step 6 is to stream Foscam or Foscam Clone to N770. Lookup the link for your IP camera and replace http:*.cgi with your link.

Third-Party OS for MP3 Player

Recently I was browsing the web for an update to my old MP3 player, it has a color screen but it only plays MP3´s. I came across a Open Source Linux Firmware for my Toshiba MP3. After flashing my MP3 with this firmware I was able watch movies on my MP3!!!! Not possible with the original firmware, and play Games(also not possible before). Even my battery life has increased(due to power management features).

There are great looking themes, games and plugins for this OS. Its compatible with quite a few MP3 players such as iPod, iRiver, SanDisk, and more. If you want to drop by the site and check it out maybe breath some new life into a old gadget. Oh I forgot the best part, No more syncing songs with manufacturer software, all you need to do is copy paste the songs to the MP3. Some device´s can dual boot original firmware and rockbox firmware.

(Flash at your own risk, Ive done it without problems twice and its quite easy. You can always revert back to original firmware if you don't like it. I for one am keeping this Firmware.)

Rockbox Site

Online Virus Scanner

If you want a online virus scanner try TrendMicro HouseCall . However Im talking about if you want to scan a file against multiple Antivirus programs. For this purpose you should try VirusTotal or Jotti's Malware Scan . Now the maximum filesize allowed is 20MB, you upload the file and these websites will scan it with multiple programs and report its findings. VirusTotal for example will save the files hash so the next time someone uploads it or someone uploaded it before you, the last result will be displayed or you can choose to rescan.

Western Digital HDD Premature Failure

Recently while browsing some forums I found some information that Western Digital Green Drives have a feature that parks the heads after 8 seconds of inactivity. Depending your use on your drive you can see the amount of time this is done each day can be significant. This can cause your HDD to die much sooner than anticipated.

The method used to alleviate this is to use WDIDLE3 provided from western digital to increase this idle time to something more realistic or disable it completely. I have disabled mine on a 1TB WD Green HDD successfully without any problems or loss of data(I was scared I would lose my data but it was fine). I am not responsible if you mess up your drive, just thought Id share what I learned. Google the wdidle3.exe and you will see people´s recommendations on what to do.

2 things you'll need to know you need to run this utility in DOS bootable disk and the drive must be connected via SATA or PATA. It will not work while connected via USB. There are some bootable CD ISO´s with this software on it already, google is your friend.

Frigidaire Is Not Good

Well like I said when I made this blog, I will also be talking about general things besides tech ocasionally. I want to let you know to be weary about Frigidaire we all thought they were great products and they were but since Electrolux bought them over the quality is horribly.

I personal and some people have experienced problems with dishwashers, fridges, stoves and microwaves, All kinds of problems such as display panel led's breaking for no reason(you never need to touch this part so i dont understand how this happens.) Dishwasher spray arms fall off and when put back it just falls off again. Well im not gonna tell you all the problems I and other people have encountered you can google that, But just consider yourself warned, I wont be buying any frigidaire products again(matter of fact anything under the Electrolux brand).

Browser Redirect Virus

So I had this virus that was redirecting my browsers, AVG, Spybot and MalwareBytes did not detect anything. After running Hijackthis, I noticed some scheduled tasks. When I checked my Task scheduler I notice 23 Scheduled tasks, that ran mshta.exe and some URL. I deleted all of these scheduled tasks,searched my C drive for mshta.exe and deleted all instances of it(may need to use Unlocker to do this).

Once I rebooted I ran AVG, Spybot and MalwareBytes again, AVG found 4 things and could not remove them:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe (1652):\memory_001a0000";"Trojan horse Agent_r.XJ";"Object is inaccessible."
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe (1652)";"Trojan horse Agent_r.XJ";""
"C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe (636):\memory_001a0000";"Trojan horse Agent_r.XJ";"Object is inaccessible."
"C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe (636)";"Trojan horse Agent_r.XJ";""

After some google'ing I found someone recommending TDSSKiller from Kaspersky. So I ran this program and it found 2 threats and removed them with a reboot, healed my system completely, AVG scan confirmed this.


Download Link: http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip