NEWER GARMIN NUVI TRICKS & TIPS ARTICLES

Thanks for taking care of us. I frequent the site and collect very real good tips and methods on how to do things with the GPS, and, Have explanaitions on what happened when it does something unusual.
Virgo53

Thanks Gary for all your hard work.

Your site and the POI Factory are hands-down the two BEST GPS sites on the interent! I've learned a whole lot from both of them and always look forward to seeing whats new.

Thanks again!!!

Thank you for this. They have helped me out a lot as I just purchased my new garmin 1390T.

Thanks for all of the hints.

Best regards,

Scott

for a tremendously useful site. I've been able to get so much more utility out of my nuvi 760 as a result of your site.

Thank you Gary for all your help.Your hard work has helped all of us.Your work is greatly appreciated.
thanks again.

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Garmin Nuvi, 750

for keeping us updated on new content of your website

I did not know about your web site. I will go there now.

Wish everyone would update the new poeple of their web sites and programs.

This would be helpful.

Thanks.

the link is listed on the FAQ section.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6656

Gary,

THANKS for all the effort.

Great site !

Gary -

As the owner of a new nuvi 765T, let me also extend a big Thank You! for your tremendous site. Not only is the site wonderfully informative, but it's also very entertaining!

Again, thanks for your hard work and efforts.

Thanks for all the new tips and tricks. Much appreciated.

You are amazing!

still a big fan of your site...great complement to poi-factory

your site is another fantastic site for the experienced GPSr users, as well as the beginner's, thanks for your hardwork and dedication.

THanks. Your website is great. I just got a Garmin Nuvi 255WT. I am totally new to Garmin only having owned Tom Tom's before. Are there other good sites out there for a newbie like me to teach me a bunch of things I can do with the GPS?

You are at the best site.

Thanks for your effort and the info.

Great Information! I've bookmarked it and use it often,

Thanks

I love it -- thanks!

These are great, helpful tips. Thanks for sharing!

When I first started out, your site was the first one that really taught me how to get the best use out of my GPS. I love it here at POI factory but found that later.

Please keep up the good work.

Your site gave many people including me valuable information in using our GPS, its nice to see new updates, Good job I say.

Thanks all for the very nice comments you have added. It is my pleasure to maintain the site.

You Are Invited ..........

If you have developed a technique for your nuvi, and feel that the Garmin nuvi Tricks, Tips, etc WEB site might be the place, or ONE of the places where you would like to share your information to the public, please write me and furnish an article in a format similar to what appears on my site -- a teaching tool; understandable; easy to follow; having the newbie in mind; and entertaining. I will 'jazz' it up with layout, fonts, color, graphics, tables and screen submitted screen shots -- for eye appeal.

Gary Hayman

my mail domain: comcast.net
my ID there: ghayman3 (don't forget the '3')

Gary, thanks for your great site. With your help I've been able to make my GPS do things I had no idea it could accomplish. Plus, some of them are kinda fun. You've really dug into what makes these things tick.

Yes. Definitely a big Thank You

Gary - at the risk of sounding like idiot, is there something unique about your website that prevents access?

I've used the following link:

http://bit.ly/garmin_gps_tricks

in IE 7, Firefox, and Chrome, and each time I just get a blank page.

Would love to see what "tricks" you have on your site.

Thanks in advance..

Link works fine for me. Have you tried accessing other bit.ly links, such as:
http://bit.ly/1sDjyJ or just plain http://bit.ly ?

If the short link doesn't work for you try this longer one:

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/index.html

Gary Hayman

Thank you very much

These tips are great! Thanks

All your hard work is very much appreciated. Garmin should pay you for providing more technical advice than their own website. (or their abysmal manual)

All good stuff on your site Gary, thanks. When any of my friends get a GPS I introduce them to POI factory and then your site.

Thanks for your and WASSup's replies. I did try the long link but got the same results. I thought it might be a browser setting but like I said - three browsers, same result. I even turned off my firwall for a few seconds but to no avail.

I did shorten the longer link by removing the "/garmin.gps/index.html" at the end. It did take me to your website and I was able to click and visit all your other zydeco sites. But got same result when I clicked on the tricks and tips link.

Thanks again.

Great info Thanks

Thank you ghayman for all this great information.

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I can assure you that the site works.

Try dropping the /index.html and see what happens

If using IE, trying just going to
'http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3'
which you said you could reach and then making 'home.comcast.net' a 'Trusted Site'
Use the link
[Tools > Internet Options > Security
try Medium Security; Click on Trusted Sites then Sites and add 'http://home.comcast.net' to the listing.]

Let us know how you are coming along. Hoping that I or some other reader can give you the clue to your success in reaching the site.

Also try
http://snipurl.com/garmin_gps_tricks

[I take it that you are not using a Commodore C64 or a Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80 ;-)]

Gary Hayman

Oh, while you guys are here. I added a new article the other day in which you may have some interest.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME - Jack, Speak A Little Bit Louder Now

It's on Page 8 of the Garmin Tricks, Tips, etc. Web site.

http://bit.ly/garmin_gps_tricks

Gary Hayman

Thanks for your reply. Added 'home.comcast.net' as a trusted site but still did not work.

I did back into the site by googling (acceptable vernacular??) on '~ghayman3' and was able to get to page 3 on your site.

From there I was able to click on link for each page in your "navigation" box at the top and successfully access each page with the exception of two: TOC/Menu and Page 1.

Incidentally - great content and information on what I looked at last night. No wonder people have been raving about your site!!!

....and no I'm not using Commodore C64 or "Trash 80"...although those references do bring back fond memories of a different time .......

Great information, thanks.

At the risk of repeating the familiar refrain - great site which I regularly visit after reviewing the updates on POI Factory, which BTW are the ONLY sites I regularly visit (aside from my bank and the kid's home page!)

Thank you for the additional tips & tricks!

Thank you !!!

Thanks for letting me know that you were able to reach the Garmin Tricks & Tips side through a Google link to an interior page, and from there you were able to go to all pages except for the index.html (or page 1) page. This means that something is different on page 1 than all the other pages. And that is true. Page 1 has my counter service link.

Apparently, your settings in your browsers are preventing the count and you are hanging.

I get a lot of traffic on the site over the years and you are the first that has informed me that you couldn't reach it. Yesterday (8/4), for example, I had 528 visits to Page 1 and 1,058 Page views.

So, I'm guessing that it is due to a setting in your browser -- of some sort.

I don't know if any of this will work, but you might give it a try.

In Internet Explorer 8
I use Tools > Internet Settings
-- Security - Internet Sites "Med-High"
-- Security - Trusted Sites "Medium"
-- "http://home.comcast.com" and "http://comcast.com"
-- Security - Restricted Sites "High"
-- You might check your Restricted Sites; Sites to make sure 'www.sitemeter.com' or 'sitemeter.com' are NOT listed
-- Under the Privacy Tab check to see if 'sitemaster.com' and 'comcast.com' are not marked "Always Blocked" and are marked "Always Allow"

These are just a few ideas that may help.

Page 1 is important as it does contain the MENU for the articles as well as the initial articles that I posted.

Let us know how you make out.

Gary Hayman

Tried everything you suggested, but to no avail. I still get a blank page with the indication "Done!" in the bottom left hand corner of the frame.

I get the same result when I use Chrome or Firefox. I also checked my firewall settings but saw nothing that would prevent the page loading properly.

I doubt it's the counter, because I've been to other sites that have a counter.

My son has a newer computer running Vista (I'm running XP) and I was able to access the index/page 1.

...one of life's little mysteries...in any case I can still access what you have on your site - a lot of good information for "newbies" like me.

Thanks and hoe I can add a trick or tip for the "good of the order".

Was the connection on your son's Vista computer from your same Internet connection and same ISP? If not, this could be a routing problem with your ISP. They may have a valid route to Gary's site, but not to the site hosting the counter.

Yes...same ISP and internet connection and common firewall. Only difference is he is running different firewall on his computer than I am. To check that, I even turned my firewall off to see if it was blocking anything.

Thanks for the guide, as a one month Garmin GPS user, found a lot of useful tips there.

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These are great tips. Thanks.