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Recorded on 12/29/2010 Join us for a shoot out at the historic Knot Hole Bar in down town Comins. The day is saved by Cowboy look a likes from the Old West featuring the Cagle Brothers, John Phipps, & Bob Wallace aka Rooster Cogburn, Matt Dillon, Lone Ranger, Tonto, & Lash La Rue. Also HHH Andy Smith reviews the new Gps Blackstar application for the Blackberry + much more!
You can see Michigan Magazine TV twice each week on the RFDTV Network. The GeoSnippits Geocaching Videos hosted by Andy "HeadHardHat" Smith is a weekly segment of the show.
TrackFiles is a videozine produced and hosted by fellow geocacher IceNRye. Think of it as a video podcast which features geocaching news, events, geocaching videos and rewind summaries of other internet podcasts all in one well done video show.
Based out of Canada, IceNRye does an exceptionally good job packing a ton of geocaching points of interest that the geocacher can then examine further about the geocaching world.
This weeks episode is featuring among other geocaching goodness my GeoSnippits geocaching video review about the BlackBerry application BlackStar. BlackStar is a FREE geocaching application which allows you to use your BlackBerry smart phone to go geocaching. My review takes you out into the woods of North Carolina to test the application and finding geocaches plus a controlled manual testing as well. The results are worth the watch and we give all the links for you to find out for yourself.
Be sure to check out TrackFiles not only to see my BlackStar review but because TrackFiles is a really good show for geocachers who want to stay in the know about geocaching. I highly recommend it!
I had recently watched an episode of IceNRye'sTrackFiles which is a very well done geocaching videozine. There he mentioned about a BlackBerry geocaching application known as Blackstar and if anyone had a video showing it in use. Now normally I usually get asked first to do a review but this is a FREE application and thought it would be perfect to test and let other geocachers know if it is worth using or not. So off I went into the Autumn woods of North Carolina and gave it a spin. Below is not only my review of it but a full blown GeoSnippits Video.
As you know I do not pull punches about a product I am reviewing. I calls them as I sees them so that you my ever trusted viewers get the facts. So before I get inundated with your emails of likes and dislikes let me say this straight out. When I first said I was doing a review of BlackStar I recieved a ton of twitter tweets from users who use BlackStar all the time. For that I am grateful, it is also the reason why I went and did a second round of testing just to be extra sure of my findings.
So go enjoy the GeoSnippits. I had a lot of fun making it and you will not only find my actual findings but a scorecard of how I felt BlackStar did... Enjoy.
My personal likes and dislikes of the BlackStar application. I like that it is free and gives a beginning geocacher the chance to go out with minimal cost and go geocaching.
What bugged me the absolute most about BlackStar is it's need for use of third party applications and the time it took to load the applications for everything you do while geocaching. Also if you are in an area that does not have fast internet access you are really going to feel the pain with all the uploads. I honestly can say that this would be a terrible application to use if you were on a numbers run due to the lag between programs yet on the other hand if you are just geocaching for the moment it can be handy. The best thing is to give it a shot for yourself.
