Got fed up with the little blue arrow on my TomTom so have just made this (made from a screen grab of the pre-FL brochure).

Yeti.bmp

Edited 26 February, 201412 yr by dcl5ad

I have a Garmin and it uses 3D images of cars.  You can get all sorts of tat for free on their website:

 

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/bundles/allvehicles.html

 

Then I found this:

 

http://www.vehiclesforgarminnuvi.com/

 

Most any SUV you can imagine but alas no Yeti sadly.  But there is a neat section bottom right showing you how to "Make a vehicle".

The tomtom instructions are pretty good: you make an 80x80 pixel 24-bit bmp, set the background to red (255,0,0) and bung whatever you like in the foreground. Getting the square-on view is the difficult bit.

 

Those garmin instructions, while the end result is very impressive, look to be a complete nightmare.

you make an 80x80 pixel 24-bit bmp, set the background to red (255,0,0) and bung whatever you like in the foreground. Getting the square-on view is the difficult bit.

 

 

Blimey I must be past it (I am BTW).

 

Back in the day I would have understood all the techno speak (although not that there was much compared to now).

 

Talk to me about Rockford Fosgate Amps, Alpine Head units and Boyd Coddington Billet alloys from the 80's, and all would makes sense - but pixels, bmps and 255,0,0s - no way!

 

Good job there are some savvy young guns like Andy and Johann out there.

With my portable TomTom I downloaded the Yeti images from the website there are allsorts of em on there ! including 'Start up' & 'Shut down' screens.   

....Good job there are some savvy young guns like Andy and Johann out there.

 

There are one or two grandfathers as well.  Do try to keep up, Andrew!

On my Garmin I've got Wallace's A35 van!!

There are one or two grandfathers as well.  Do try to keep up, Andrew!

I try, but at age 62 am at the point when all this latest stuff drives me mad, especially my 4 grand-kids taping and swiping their i-phones constantly!

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I try, but at age 62 am at the point when all this latest stuff drives me mad, especially my 4 grand-kids taping and swiping their i-phones constantly!

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A mere child then!

 

At 64, I still get asked regularly to show my grandkids how to do stuff on their phones and tablets.

 

Still life in this old dog (now, where did I leave my specs ...)

A mere child then!

 

At 64, I still get asked regularly to show my grandkids how to do stuff on their phones and tablets.

 

Still life in this old dog (now, where did I leave my specs ...)

Tried  these -

Smart phone (hated it - reverted to my old Nokia).

Tablet (ditto - prefer my 22" desk PC).

Smart 3D TV (3D waste of time as is the internet facility, but the actual TV is great).

 

The only techno feature I love and would really miss is Sky's (and most other providers) record/pause live TV facility. Can't imagine recording on video tape now.

 

Back in the day (1974/5), when I was a techno freak keeping up with all the latest gadgets, I purchased a Philips video recorder (N1500?). Cost me a fortune back then, and the only place I could source one (quickly), was from a specialised outlet within the grounds of Shepperton Studios.

 

So as the saying goes on Dragon's Den -

"I'm out!"

Blimey I must be past it (I am BTW).

 

Back in the day I would have understood all the techno speak (although not that there was much compared to now).

 

Talk to me about Rockford Fosgate Amps, Alpine Head units and Boyd Coddington Billet alloys from the 80's, and all would makes sense - but pixels, bmps and 255,0,0s - no way!

 

Good job there are some savvy young guns like Andy and Johann out there.

Same here, it's a 'furin' language to me also. Nuts n bolts is one thing but this is WOTT for me.

Can't imagine recording on video tape now.

 

Ah, but don't you just miss the days of Betamax. the 8 track cartridge, the Videodisc and finding a bent coin jamming the slot of a pay phone when your elderly Ford reached its routine breakdown mileage (about every 2,000 miles from memory) and you had to phone a mate for a tow? And who who can forget the endless joy to be had waiting 10 minutes for a programme to fail to load onto a Spectrum 16.

 

Happy days.. 

Ah, but don't you just miss the days of Betamax. the 8 track cartridge, the Videodisc and finding a bent coin jamming the slot of a pay phone when your elderly Ford reached its routine breakdown mileage (about every 2,000 miles from memory) and you had to phone a mate for a tow? And who who can forget the endless joy to be had waiting 10 minutes for a programme to fail to load onto a Spectrum 16.

 

Happy days.. 

Remember all that so well...... also press button B to get your money back (public phone box).

Could we have an 'old farts' forum so we could recall the 'good ol' days' without getting laughed at?

Could we have an 'old farts' forum so we could recall the 'good ol' days' without getting laughed at?

Don't need a special forum as average age of a Yeti Owner is around the 60 mark (Briskoda survey).

 

But maybe a new "Back in the Day" thread would not go amiss.

Don't need a special forum as average age of a Yeti Owner is around the 60 mark (Briskoda survey).

 

But maybe a new "Back in the Day" thread would not go amiss.

You mean as in 'the good ol' days?

Remind me, are they the pre 'social media' days? If so me too!

It's comforting to be grumpy.

You mean as in 'the good ol' days?

Remind me, are they the pre 'social media' days? If so me too!

It's comforting to be grumpy.

It's an age thing (I think), though my wife says I have always been a moaner - come to think of it, she's correct.

Anyone had any luck putting a custom icon onto an iPhone running TomTom?

I used to be able to, but now I can't just insert an image into the file system and use it :(

Got fed up with the little blue arrow on my TomTom so have just made this (made from a screen grab of the pre-FL brochure).

Yeti.bmp

 

What is this FL I see mentioned?  I feel like it should be obvious but it is going over my head! :(

What is this FL I see mentioned?  I feel like it should be obvious but it is going over my head! :(

 

 

FL = Facelift  So it is the Facelifted Yeti.