[Az-Geocaching] (no subject)

Jason Poulter listserv@azgeocaching.com
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:42:09 -0700


ya i thought about adding a hyperlink thing for the cheats in my books 
as well just didn't get around to it yet... but now that camp is over 
and im way less stressed and busy i can probably get to it...

jason


Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> In my "review" of the new query system on geocaching.com the other day, 
> I mentioned that one of my gripes was the reader-imposed limit on 
> copying of two lines of text at a time. I presume they did it two 
> prevent wholesale piracy of their commercial offerings, but it made hint 
> decryption in the field a major problem.
>  
> I have just discovered that this issue has now been addressed. All hints 
> in your selection are automatically decrypted and placed in an appendix 
> at the end of the e-book. A bookmark to this appendix is automatically 
> created. So if you want to read a hint, you go to the appendix and you 
> can either scroll through or do a find from there on the Waypoint ID. 
> Each hint has a hyperlink back to its description page in the e-book. 
> Nicely done, problem solved.
>  
> It seems they are continually putting in fixes to address a lot of the 
> issues that have come up, but they don't announce them anywhere that 
> I've seen. So I usually wind up finding out about them by accident, like 
> I did in this case. Does anyone know if there's a place where they're 
> announcing fixes, new functionality, etc. when it's released? Or maybe 
> they won't do that until they go gold.
> 
> Steve
> Team Tierra Buena
>