When I reviewed MotionX GPS Drive for iPhone , I said it offered the best value but had some UI issues. Newly redesigned, the app’s 3.0 version is far better—with landscape view and a more logical user interface. Yes, the landscape mode I was lamenting its lack of in the last edition is there, and it looks great. As you can see, even pulling up iPod controls doesn’t hog the screen.

People bitching about TomTom’s $100 iPhone navigation app can either a) bitch louder or b) download MotionX GPS Drive by Fullpower. It’s $3 per month or $25 per year, and it works just fine. I am not going to tell you this is the best turn-by-turn road navigation app in the world. I still think Navigon is the slickest, and ALK’s CoPilot is impressively full featured for costing just $35. But the commitment required for MotionX GPS Drive beats them all: It’s $3 to download, and you get a month of turn-by-turn directions included in that

Possibly in response to the amazingly low price of Fullpower’s MotionX GPS (stay tuned for full review), Networks In Motion has reduced the monthly rate of its Gokivo iPhone app to $4.99. [ iTunes Link ]

The Finish: The Pegasus Open 50 sailboat just set the Transpac record of 7 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds for a double handed monohull ship. Previous Record: 10 days, 4 hours and 4 minutes. Over the Last Night: Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone , and decodes human motion . He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz . He’ll share his Transpac 2009 sailing race with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Richard Clarke set the race record for a double handed team in 2008 with a time of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds , besting all boats in overall time for that year.

July 12, 5:15 AM PST Sailing along fast. Found faulty regulator and alternator. Good start. July 12, 6:17 AM PST Update: We expect/hope to be fully recovered by Noon. Then we’ll jibe for a lay-line to the tip of Molokai and have our final jibe there. Trying to minimize jibes

July 11, 9:20 PM PST Lost all ways to recharge batteries, down to emergency battery. Just like an airplane. July 11, 9:42 PM PST July 11, 10:15 PM PST Just enough power to send emails. We have not regained anything yet. Lost some more.

The wind is picking up, and at the same time, the boat has to Jibe to port to adjust its path towards Hawaii. Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone , and decodes human motion . He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz . He’ll share his Transpac 2009 sailing race with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Richard Clarke set the race record for a double handed team in 2008 with a time of 7 days, 15 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds , besting all boats in overall time for that year.

July 9, 5:30 PM PST Today we are living within the realm of Squalls. Squalls in the the Northeast sub-tropical Pacific are different. They are small, concentrated and powerful. The rain lasts ~20 minutes under them if you’re stationary.

July 8, 9:00 PM PST This is what a sunset looks like in the middle of the ocean, from a sailboat racing from California to Hawaii. Course 265° T, Speed 13.5 Knots, Lat 26° 03′ N, Lon 135° 00′ W July 9, 2:15 AM PST Windy tonight. On edge and don’t trust the pilot on 20+ and big waves. No horizon. Been steering for 3 hours

A short break in the shakey cam tour of the boat’s tech; here’s a clip of the Pegasus Open 50 Sailboat going 16 knots and throwing up the spinnaker (a large, kite like front sail) outside of Santa Cruz, CA, on a pre race trial run. It looks slightly faster than the race videos posted the other day, but its hard to tell visually, since they could be going against or with the current and wind. Philippe Kahn founded Borland, invented the Camphone , and decodes human motion . He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splitting time skiing Tahoe and sailing in Santa Cruz .