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What he said!<br>
For optimal results you will need: (in order of expense)<br>
1) a PDA! Many, many options here, but nothing too fancy is necessary.
Perhaps $50-100.<br>
2) Cachemate. A program that runs on the PDA, and displays (almost) all
the information available on the Internet cache page. Currently $8,
with lifetime upgrades/updates.<br>
3) A premium membership at Geocaching.com, to allow retrieval of the
cache information you are interested in. $3/month-$30/year.<br>
4) HIGHLY recommended (but not necessary), GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army
Knife). A program that runs on your PC that sorts and manipulates the
cache information you receive from Geocaching.com. Also used to send
cache information to your PDA and GPSr. $20 with lifetime
upgrades/updates.<br>
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Team Tierra Buena wrote:
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<div><font face="Book Antiqua"><font face="Arial"><font
color="#0000ff"><font size="2"><span class="715474501-18042006">> </span>This
may sound like a really stupid question but here goes!! What exactly is
a PDA and how do you use it to go to paperless caching? I have</font></font></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Book Antiqua"><font face="Arial"><font
color="#0000ff"><font size="2"><span class="715474501-18042006">> </span>paper
caches all over the house and would really like a new way of caching!!</font></font></font></font></div>
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<div><span class="715474501-18042006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Book Antiqua">PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant". It's
a catch-all term that's used to describe the hand-held organizers that
are made by several manufacturers. If you've heard of "Palm Pilot",
that's one brand of PDA (although Palm doesn't use that brand name
anymore). At one time Palm Pilots held so much of the market that's
what everyone called them. But PDA is more generic and accepted now.
They all keep track of addresses and phone numbers, appointments, to-do
lists, etc.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="715474501-18042006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Book Antiqua">One thing all PDA's have in common is the ability
to move information to and from a computer, usually just by plugging
the PDA into a cable and pressing a button. This process is often
referred to as "synching". To use a PDA for paperless caching, you
download the caches you want to hunt onto your computer, and from there
you sync them on to your PDA. Then instead of carrying sheets of paper
about the caches with you, you just carry your PDA out on the trail,
and you have all the information you need.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="715474501-18042006"></span><font face="Tahoma"
size="2"><span class="715474501-18042006"><font color="#0000ff"
face="Book Antiqua" size="3">Depending on the type of PDA you buy and
how much caching you do, you may need to buy other software for either
your PDA or your computer (or both) to make it all work right, but
that's a whole other discussion. I hope this is the information you
were looking for.</font></span></font></div>
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color="#0000ff" face="Book Antiqua" size="3">Steve</font></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="715474501-18042006"><font
color="#0000ff" face="Book Antiqua" size="3">Team Tierra Buena</font></span></font></div>
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