Other interesting TomTom issues
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Other
TomTom resources
Are you already handy with TomTom and do you intend to
tune it up? You can now change the map colors and even the menu button layout.
Next you’ll find the right links for that, as well as manuals and other friend
websites containing important and very interesting resources for TomTom. It’s
essential that you visit them. You won’t regret it.
How
to have Tomtom fun with your PC: How to
have Tomtom fun with your PC: fully illustrated manual in thirty-something
steps, short of words, to avoid using glasses and aspirins. So you,
being not very skillful with computers, but brave and courageous with
them, can tease your chaps using TomTom in your PC, desk or laptop, by
using a simple emulator. This guide will spoonfeed you in over 50
pictures. And without the need to have a PDA. But, of course, you PC
needs to have some power.
Map
compatibility vs. TomTom versions: The eternal
question; does such map work under my TomTom 5 or not? There are so
maaaany TomTom versions, and so maaaany map ones that it’s difficult to
keep track of the issue. The following chart will clarify things to you.
Should you find in your TomTom that there’s a new relevant piece of
information to be added or something wrong, please let me know it by
clicking
aquí. All of us will benefit from it. ión.
UniversalPOI:
The official Robser POIs website. A place to learn and discuss all about POIs.
You're invited there.
Pdis.es:
The best and most comprehensive collection of Points Of Interest for
your navigator. By free! Sorted out by countries and categories: restaurants,
shopping centers, gas stations… Don’t miss it!
El
Rincón de Dey (Dey’s corner):
at such website you’ll find quite a lot of up-to-date valuable and interesting
resources. Unavoidable visit. No longer is the question ‘where do I find...”
acceptable.
La
Radio BBS (The BBS radio): very interesting website where our friend
‘Ferscritch’ has collected a lot of new voices for TomTom: radar guide and
warner, in several Spanish autonomic languages, adapted to each TomTom versión.
And also provided with an installation tutorial.
La
Página de JG: better known as maciasp. Yes, the author of such icon
sets for tomtom radar POIs. He is an artist, and he has make his own web.
You must visit it
BTAudioToggle:
Curious piece of software for PDA. It transfers all sound to a Bluetooth
hands-free device. You’ll be able to listen TomTom indications through
your hands-free equipment with it. The function is enabled/disabled
every time you run the software. You’ll need to enable it at completion
of every phone call.
POIedit:
Very interesting piece of PC freeware. It allows you editing POI (ov2)
files. Valid for ALL TomTom versions (Navigator, GO and Mobile).
Color
Scheme Editor: Freeware. Useful to customize the TomTom daylight and night
map views considering the lackluster standard schemes. It includes a
pre-built color schemes
gallery, consisting in a number of .CLR files you´ll only need to
copy in the SCHEMES folder in the Storage Card root folder (mobile
phones) or in main memory (PDAs). If the folder does not already exist,
just create it. Valid for ALL TomTom versions (Navigator, GO and
Mobile).
Customize
TomTom menu: Webpage
in which you’ll be able to tailor TomTom Navigator and Go menus, both in
terms of command quantity and order of appearance. It’ll generate a
so-called TomTom.mnu file you’ll have to store in the TomTom\SDKRegistry
path. In case the directory does not already exist, you’ll have to
create it.
