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I’m just posting a short link-list of aweseome greasemonkey scripts that will massively enhance your geocaching experience.

OpenStreetMaps for Geocaching Maps: This allows to display OSM instead of the Google Maps. OSM often has more details, like footpaths. Can come in very handy when deciding from which direction the cache should be approached.

Geocaching Bag-o-Tricks: Many improvements to the geocaching.com site in general. Mostly small, useful tweaks.

GC Tour: Awesome tool to create a list of caches for a tour and print out a configurable, paper-saving and concise  listings. Simply a must-have!

GC Vote: Much improved version, now eliminated the most criticized errors. See what others think about the “Quality” of caches and rate those you found yourself.

Log Emoticons and BB Codes: One-Click-Adding of the special emoticons (and colour codes) for the GC.com log

Arthur is now 7 Weeks old!

... and he smiles!

Current Data:

4.8 kg – 57.5cm

37cm head circumference

I just tried out a new iPhone application called Pocket Universe: Virtual Sky Astronomy.

This is the first real augmented reality application on the iPhone 3GS. It uses the compass and tilt sensors to automatically turn the view of the night sky and shows the corresponding information.

It seems minimally buggy, especially when the tilt reaches certain angles, but it is an awesome proof-of-concept and shows what is possible with this hardware. After you see this, it’s easy to imagine other augmented reality applications, which also use the camera for additional input.

Soon, people will have this second layer of information at their fingertips. Now if only someone would bring out something like this for the iPhone….