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National Bill of Rights Today!

Let us all observe a moment of silence for all those liberties who have bravely died while trying to provide for Citizens of the United States of America.  This serves as a time where we can reflect on the hideous behemoth our Federal Government has become at the expense of individual liberty and freedom.  It [...]

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iPhone 4S Battery life

My Runtime = 157.69 HOURS or 6.57 DAYS Ok, so I wanted to see how long my iPhone 4S would operate with minimal usage, for backcountry use with my offline Topographic Mapping application.  I made the following setting changes: Turned off Wi-Fi, Cellular Data (3G etc) and Bluetooth Decreased screen brightness to about 30% Turned [...]

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$50 off Surefire Echo

Check it out, a really great knife which has already come down in price (to a more realistic number), is now $50 off.  This deal doesn’t seem to be too well advertised.  Get them while they are available, and Surefire will donate $25 to a great cause (Task Force Dagger Foundation)! Task Force Dagger Foundation: [...]

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How to convert MRDS mines data to Garmin POI

Figured I would create a quick how-to on converting the MRDS mines data to POI.  This covers how to manually create a file from MRDS format to Garmin POI format.  To do this in an automated fashion (no real clue why you wouldn’t), see a future post on how to use MRDS-2-POI an application I [...]

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