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Paperback: 358 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (29 Mar 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0764584243
ISBN-13: 978-0764584244
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product Description

∗ This is the "user manual" that didn′t come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
∗ Crazy–cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar–powering a GPS
∗ Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
∗ Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
∗ Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector

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You′ll get lost in this book, but nowhere else

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, 13 April 2005

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This is a great book for GPS users - it's not your standard "how to use" but a deep and detailed look at ways to get the most from your GPS. It covers a whole range of "hacks" from simple DIY cables to bigger projects such as building youw own antenna.
Great book! One of a kind!

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2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, 16 Feb 2009

By	Peter J. Lynch "astropete" (england) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A better title for this book would be "Basic Use of Handheld GPS Units".
It focuses almost exclusively on Garmin and to a lesser extent Magellan units and has very little actionable information in the 350 pages about actually "hacking" (i.e. modifying the way they work) these units. A lot of the space in the first part is taken up with instructions for things like making your own data/power cables cable, or how to access some diagnostic and test screens on these particular GPS units. There are a lot of photographs, which look to me suspiciously like padding - do we really need a half page photo of two fingers holding a cable, with some pliers in the background, titled "trimming back the sheathing"? The second part of the book contains lots of photos of various sorts of AA batteries, surely we all know what they look like? there's also 8 pages on how to apply a screen protector and lots more photos of various carrying bags (even more in the geocaching sect, below).
The only actual hack in the whole book is instructions for bypassing the startup screen on a couple of GPS models. After that there are more over-illustrated sections on basic elements such as connecting your GPS to a PC, basic GPS use (including 2 freeware applications), the format of NMEA data packets and a section on geocaching - with yet more pictures of batteries, including some in plastic bags!
I felt that there's little in this book that one couldn't find on the internet (except all the photos) while wating for the ordered book to arrive in the post. I'd think it could also be cut down to sub-100 pages by removing a lot of the useless and repetitive photos and instruction-manual level text.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More and more, 28 Mar 2006

By	G. Morris "cherrytreebluebell2" (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Without a doubt you will get more from your gps with this book. Sure you might need to be a genius with electronics to do some of the stuff but there is a plethora of great tweaks that can be done with glue and foam - honest.

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