This important Updating the app mainly concerns the cartographic rendering of the user interface.
Category : Mac Mini
Weather4D R&N and distance calculations
Since the arrival of ARM-based Mac (M1… M3…) and the system macOS 11 Big Sur, Weather4D Routing & Navigation works natively on our favorite computers (¹). But this happy event did not go, since then, without some small restrictions. The most annoying for users was, until this day, loss of distance calculation. This is carried out on touch devices by a two-finger long press, no function allowed the translation of this gesture on Mac. The mouse only has one pointer, not two ! Read more …
MacENCx64 finally offers global charting
Since taking over MacENC at the end of the year 2020, become MacENCx64 (¹), it took three painstaking years for the company NavStation LLC to finalize the implementation of a global charting. Since January 1 2024 it is now done. A long negotiation with the ENC charting distributor ChartWorld (²) has enabled the creation of a range of vector charts in ENC S-57/S-63 format (³) as in-app purchase. Read more …
Weather4D with Mac M1
We've been talking about it since 2020 in the Facebook group of Weather4D users, the messaging app Weather4D Routing & Navigation (¹) now works on Mac with ARM processors : Mac M1 and later, from the system macOS 11.x (“Big Sur” et seq.). Simply connect the Mac to a GPS receiver or NMEA gateway via Wi-Fi to receive the position and navigation data of the instruments. Read more …
MacENC is back
MacENCx64 is now the name of the MacENC application which has just been published by its new developer NavStation.
MacENC has been completely adapted and recompiled into 64 bits for recent MacOS systems and new processors, which explains the new name. I continue to ensure the French translation. But be careful : to date Navionics cartography is no longer available. So there is no charting yet for the coasts of Europe, except ENC S-57 and S-63 available from Chartworld (see the page Digital charting). Read more …
Bad news from Apple !
In an October post 2009, I headlined “Good news from Apple” mentioning the price drop of the Mac Mini which had just been renewed. This time it’s quite the opposite. !
In the media frenzy surrounding the arrival of the iPad, iPhone 4 and iOS4, the presentation of the Mac Mini unibody 2010 seems to be (nearly) unnoticed… except for the purse. Read more …
The question of choice
A reoccurring question comes regularly by email from my visitors : which computer equipment to choose for yachting ? It is a fact that, faced with the spectacular growth in equipment available to recreational sailors, it becomes very difficult to form an opinion. By giving partial answers to one and the other, and often unsatisfactory, I ended up realizing the facts. Actually, the choice of a navigation system is essentially based on the answer to a question : for what need ?
I therefore tried to define these needs and put an appropriate solution in front of each person.. This may seem a little simplistic, but above all it has the merit of simplifying things. I took the opportunity to calculate the current budget for each of the solutions in order to highlight a criterion that seems fundamental to me : the Need/Coast ratio. Let's go… Read more …
Good news from Apple !
No, I won't tell you about the insolent quarterly results published by Apple (more than 20 million devices sold, all models combined).
I won't tell you about the dizzying rise in Apple shares over the past year either. (to 78 up to 192 dollars).
No, isn't it.
The good news I want to talk about is the new Mac Mini going on sale ! Enjoy, macusers browsers : entry-level 2.26GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive, that all for 549 €, thus 50 less than the previous entry level.
That makes a superb equipment to get onboard for GPSNavX or MacENC about 786 € !
Oui, oui, right count : Mac Mini + Clavier standard + souris Magic Mouse + 1 wide 19 screen″ LCD 1er prix (from one of our specialist suppliers).
Although, for my own, a wireless mouse on a card table, as the boat heels… you know.
No, I won't tell you about the insolent quarterly results published by Apple (more than 20 million devices sold, all models combined).
I won't tell you about the dizzying rise in Apple shares over the past year either. (to 78 up more to 200 dollars).
No, isn't it.
The good news I want to talk about is the sale of the new Mac Mini ! Enjoy, macusers boaters : entry level 2,26 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a hard drive 160 GB RAM, that all for 549 €, thus 50 less than the previous entry level.
That makes a superb equipment to get onboard for GPSNavX or MacENC about 786 € !
Oui, oui, right count : Mac Mini + Clavier standard + souris Magic Mouse + 1 wide 19 screen″ LCD 1er prix (from one of our specialist suppliers) good enough to get onboard.
Although, for my own, a wireless mouse on a card table, as the boat heels… you know.