Monday, August 07, 2006
Caterpillars
Please feel free to send me more - pics and names, before and after, please.
| Caterpillar | Turns Into | Comments |
 Tomato Hornworm |  Hawk or Hummingbird Moth | Can strip a plant clean of leaves in a few days. Pretty moth though, moved to a "scrap" tomato near the composter. |
 Banded Wooly Bear |  Isabella Tiger Moth | Fun to watch and catch in the fall. |
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Suggestions: Nextar MN2707 GPS Nav System
| Issue | Suggestion |
| Navigation voice volume is too loud at startup and changes are not saved | factory default should be "level 1", then default to setting configured in the sound setup, then in-use changes to levels by user should be saved as new default. |
| MP3 player volume is too loud at startup and changes are not saved | factory default should be "level 1", then default to setting configured in the sound setup, then in-use changes to levels by user should be saved as new default. |
| MP3 player options only allow playing one song - or all songs starting from the beginning | NEED to incorporate "standard" music functions: skip back, play/pause, stop, skip forward, repeat-song/repeat-all/no-repeat, random-folder/random-all/no-random, volume up and down (using jog wheel???) and attenuate (for going through the drive-through at Tim Horton's for my coffee - not mute, just much reduced volume). All of these controls should also be available on the main navigation screen if MP3s are being played while navigating. |
| route preference functionality differences are not consistent between Shortest Route, Mostly Highways, and Fewest Turns. Route calculated does not always seem to match selection and many times the route is blatantly wrong. | Appears to be a bug - fix. |
| road names disappear at a predetermined zoom level regardless of density of roads or information on the screen | default to existing functionality but allow user to add street names at higher zoom levels if desired |
| user defined and saved points of interest (POIs) don't seem to be lat/long based, usually end up at the end of street, which can be a pain when targeting a specific house on a long road | not sure if this is a limitation of the route-based navigation system, but user defined POIs should be stored by lat/long of the point flagged |
| Point Of Interest (POI) by distance search should never result in nothing being found, which happens in rural areas | should at least fill 1 screen with the closest POIs from the database, sorted by proximity not name - or allow different sort options UPDATE: seems that the POI search is limited to ~4 kms. At highway speeds you will be able to see what you are looking for before this unit can find it. |
| address and intersection searches have NEVER worked for me, regardless of the way I enter the data (example, does not find my street, even when I search for the name exactly as it is displayed on the unit's own map screen!). As well, searching by POI if no town is given results in a list that is alphabetically listed. | search results should be listed by proximity if no town given - or user selectable sort option. Search for address and intersection functionality should be reviewed for bugs. |
