Jul
31
2009
ChinaCarGPS.com provides customers five courier solutions to choose from, i.e. DHL, UPS, FedEx, TNT Airways, and EMS.
DHL Express (originally standing for Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn), is a division of Deutsche Post DHL providing international express mail services. Effective 01 Nov. 2003 , a Remote Area Service will be assessed each time a shipment is delivered to or picked up from a remote area. Customers of ChinaCarGPS.com are suggested to check here to make sure whether your place belongs to one of the remote areas or not if you decide to choose DHL as your shipping method. If yes, then [...]
Tags: courier, shipping
Jul
30
2009
AC’97 (short for Audio Codec ‘97; also MC’97, short for Modem Codec ‘97) is Intel Corporation’s Audio “Codec” standard developed by the Intel Architecture Labs in 1997, and used mainly in motherboards, modems, and sound cards.
Intel’s use of the word audio codec refers to signals being encoded/decoded to/from analog audio from/to digital audio, thus actually a combined audio AD/DA-converter. This should not be confused with a codec in the sense of converting from one binary format to another, such as an audio (MP3) or video (Xvid) codec in a media player.
Audio components integrated into chipsets consists of two components: an [...]
Tags: Technique Terms
Jul
30
2009
PolNav, Finean, IGO, GET 5, PAPAGO are some of the major GPS Navigation map brands on the market today. When it comes to choose one from those perplexing maps, consumers are at a loss. Here are some things to bear in mind when deciding which one to buy.
1. map details
Whether the map provides detailed street information or not is of critical significance. It could not be worse if you run into some street without any information on the map. It’s best the the map could also provide detailed info in the rural area. However, most [...]
Tags: polnav gps maps, SD cards
Jul
29
2009
Old “lost” days are gone
Goodbye to the days when the one-hour-drive was multiplied into more number of driving hours because there was no direction to take. And not very long, gas tanks ran out of fumes and cars generally got stranded in the middle of unknown dusty roads.
For the past years, the charge fee for the installation of GPS auto navigation has considerably gone down. And as a predictable consequences of this, more people are taking benefit of it so as to know exactly where they are moving to, make a plan of their journey, and to maintain the path [...]
Tags: auto navigation benefits
Jul
27
2009
PolNav is a fairly good GPS navigation program. But first a short description: PolNav is the product of PolstarGPS. It has a number of features that are standard on all GPS navigation programs and a number that are not. The company website has most of the relevant descriptions as well as screen shots.
We tested this PolNav version 5 on an unlocked Mio Moov 310.
Installation was easy and the program started quickly. The setup menu has a n option to find the GPS automatically. PolNav found the GPS and several satellites within a minute or so. Not bad for a cold [...]
Tags: polnav gps map
Jul
26
2009
Porsche chief Wendelin Wiedeking resigned Thursday, paving the way for a takeover of the luxury German sports carmaker by
Volkswagen.
The VW supervisory board is expected to agree, in principle, Thursday to a two-step 8-billion-euro takeover of Porsche after the legendary sports car group agreed on Wiedeking’s departure during an all-night session in Stuttgart.
The prospect of VW now seizing control of Porsche signals an end to the sports carmaker’s long cherished independence, with 56-
year-old Wiedeking having lost out in a protracted power struggle with Volkswagen, which is Europe’s biggest carmaker.
It also means that Volkswagen has turned the tables on the highly indebted [...]
Tags: porsche, vw
Jul
25
2009
OK, so it happened again today. This time in Oregon. A truck driver who said he was following a new route given by his GPS device crashed his semi full of peat moss into a railroad overpass in Washington County.
Here is the part that got me “The crash took place just a few hundred yards from the destination the truck driver was ultimately trying to reach.”
Tags: gps problems
Jul
25
2009
Mailing Gifts to Canada
Gifts sent to individuals in Canada are exempt from duties and taxes if:
the item is worth less than $60 CAN (see Bank of Canada exchange rates)
the item includes a card or notice indicating that it is a gift.
If the gift is worth more than $60 CAN, the recipient will have to pay applicable duties and sales taxes on the value of the gift over $60 CAN.
The $60 gift exemption does not apply to
tobacco, alcoholic beverages, or advertising material
items sent by a business, company, or association
The $60 gift exemption can not be combined with the regular $20 [...]
Tags: gift duties