Hacking GPS (ExtremeTech)

Paperback: 358 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764584243
ISBN-13: 978-0764584244

Your GPS is a really cool toy, but what if you could make it even cooler? What if you could build and hook up data cables, modify your iPAQ cradle to take a GPS connection, tweak the firmware, hook up to your PC without expensive software, use GPS data in a hundred creative ways, even solar-power your GPS? Suppose you could beef up your "first to find" quotient when geocaching, or use your GPS as a super-accurate clock. Well, you can. Read on—your adventure is just beginning! Here's how to soup up your GPS
Covers both Garmin and Magellan models

• Crack the secret codes
• Build auxiliary battery packs
• Navigate with your GPS
• Make power and data cables
• Sharpen your signal
• Keep firmware update
• Hack out a PC connectio
• Create and load dat
• Grab screenshots on the move
• Set up an atomic clock
• Customize GPS games
• Discover paper-free geocaching
  

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Visual Studio Hacks

• Visual Studio Hacks: Tips & Tools for Turbocharging the IDE
  
• Paperback: 500 pages
  Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Pbk ed. edition (March 24, 2005)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10: 0596008473
  ISBN-13: 978-0596008475
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  With start-up templates for projects ranging from Windows applications to web services, and extensive help and on-line documentation, Visual Studio .NET might be mistaken for a tool for unsophisticated users. It's true that most developers soon discover that the basic operation of Visual Studio is fairly self-explanatory; less obvious are some of the suite's more advanced built-in features. Visual Studio .Net includes a wealth of little-used capabilities, is very customizable, has a complete automation model, and much more. On top of its regular feature set, there are hosts of free add-ins, macros, and power toys that can further enhance the functionality of Visual Studio. This book is all about exploring these things, and in doing so, becoming a better and more efficient developer.
  
  Developers will learn how to:
  
  
  
• Get the most out of projects and solutions, including getting down and dirty with the undocumented format of project and solution files
• Use these editor features to the fullest, and add additional functionality to the editor through the use of third-party add-ins
• Learn smarter ways to navigate the application and your own source code
• Customize shortcut keys, toolbars, menus, the toolbox, and much more
• Use the debugger successfully not only on your source code, but with T-SQL and scripting languages as well
• Automatically generate code
• Learn how the server can be used to interface with databases, services, and performance counters, as well as WMI
• Use and create Visual Studio add-ins to extend its functionality

Offering valuable tips, tools, and tricks, Visual Studio Hacks takes you far beyond the suite's usual capabilities. You can read this book from cover to cover or, because each hack stands its own, you can feel free to browse and jump to the different sections that interest you most. If there's a prerequisite you need to know about, a cross-reference will guide you to the right hack. If you want to experience the full spectrum of Visual Studio's functionality and flexibility, you'll find the perfect guide for exploration in Visual Studio Hacks. Once the final page is turned, you can confidently say that you've been exposed to everything that Visual Studio .NET is capable of doing.

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Visual Basic .NET Bible

Visual Basic .NET Bible covers everything you need to get up and runningwith this much changed version of Visual Basic and to begin creating applications for the new Microsoft.NET Platform.

If Visual Basic .NET can do it, you can do it too … Visual Basic .NET represents the greatest generational leap Visual Basic has ever taken. Written by a talented team of Visual Basic .NET experts, this comprehensive guide helps you flatten the .NET learning curve and get to work, whether you're a Visual Basic 6 veteran, an ASP developer, or a programming newcomer. Starting with an overview of new object-oriented programming features, the authors walk you through Visual Basic language basics and the Visual Studio .NET IDE, explain ADO.NET and XML data access technologies, and demonstrate step by step how to create Windows Forms, ASP.NET applications, and Web Services. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Visual Basic .NET

• Get a quick rundown of differences between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET
• Master the ins and outs of the Visual Basic .NET language, from "Hello World" to object-oriented programming, multithreading, and COM interoperability
• Find out how to boost your productivity in the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment
• Harness ADO.NET and XML to access and manipulate data
• Get a handle on creating Windows Forms, from controls to visual inheritance
• Delve into HTML and Web controls, plus learn how to encapsulate code into user controls and find out what's new with security and configuration for your ASP.NET applications
• Learn everything you need to know to build and consume Web Services, including incisive coverage of SOAP

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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from it's humble beginnings as a as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.

To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it—The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

• Takes you through your development environment set up


• Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications


• Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

Summary of Contents

• Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3—Your Creative Partner


• Chapter 2: Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP


• Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready


• Chapter 4: Setting Up a PHP Site


• Chapter 5: Adding a Touch of Style


• Chapter 6: Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box


• Chapter 7: Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar


• Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets


• Chapter 9: Building Online Forms and Validating Input


• Chapter 10: Introducing the Basics of PHP


• Chapter 11: Using PHP to Process a Form


• Chapter 12: Working with PHP Includes and Templates


• Chapter 13: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin


• Chapter 14: Storing Records in a Database


• Chapter 15: Controlling Access to Your Site


• Chapter 16: Working with Multiple Tables


• Chapter 17: Searching Records and Handling Dates


• Chapter 18: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML


• Chapter 19: Using Spry to Display XML


• Chapter 20: Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry
  

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Windows Vista:All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Published by
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
111 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
www.wiley.com

• Tame and tease Vista's new features with the expert advice in these handy minibooks. From gadgets to glass, desktops to downloads, backups to browsers, find what you need to know about Vista, iPods, free antivirus software, pictures, scumbusting, Windows renovation and resuscitation, and much more.

Discover how to

• Choose and install the right Vista version
• Rip and burn discs of data, music, or movies
• Organize your desktop files and folders
• Spruce up pictures in the Photo Gallery
• Play music and podcasts anywhere

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Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

By Jerry Joyce, Marianne Moon
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Pub Date: December 20, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-7356-2268-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-2268-5
Pages: 368

Get the fast answersin full colorthat make learning the new Windows Vista operating system plain and simple! Windows Vista helps you more effectively use your PCwith simple ways to find and use your information, enjoy your digital media, and connect to technologies and people. This no-nonsense guide helps you learn the easy way to navigate this new operating system with numbered steps and concise, straightforward language that show the most expedient ways to learn a new skill or solve a problem. Youll discover how to perform everyday tasks and answer your own questions quicklylearning the essentials for customizing your desktop, setting up a home network, managing digital media, publishing files to the Web, and more. With Plain Simple, you dont have to wade through superfluous details

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