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Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography (Hacks)

Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh

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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?

Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.

"Mapping Hacks," the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time.

"Mapping Hacks" shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure!

With all of these industrial-strength tips andtools, "Mapping Hacks" effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

Android Essentials (Firstpress)

Chris Haseman

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Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and networking.

• Thorough, complete, and useful work on the nuts and bolts of applicatio development in Android
• Example driven and practically minded
• A tool for hobbyists and professionals who want to create production–quality applications

What you’ll learn

• Understand how an Android application functions and communicates with the handset that hosts it.
• Comprehend the complexities of timers, services, and multimedia playback.
• Create and display a rich mix of custom–rendered screens and tailored Android widgets.
• Understand how location–based services are becoming more and more important in the mobile world.
• See how to use Google’s powerful Map tool.
• Explore the intricacies of network connectivity in the mobile world.

Who is this book for

This book is for professional software engineers looking to move their ideas and applications into the mobile space with Android. The author assumes the reader has a passable understanding of Java. They should be able to write classes and handle basic inheritance structures. This book also targets hobbyist developers looking to negotiate the complex minefield of mobile software.

My iPhone (2nd Edition)

Brad Miser

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My iPhone, Second Edition

 

Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPhone photos so that you can see exactly what to do.

Help when you run into the few iPhone limitations.

Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPhone.

 

 

Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your iPhone working just the way you want. The tasks include:

 

  • How to use all the essential features of iPhone 3G such as the cell phone, visual voice mail, conference calling, and contact information.

  • How to add network connections and switch between them; surf the web using full-featured web pages just like on a computer; and receive and manage your email, from all your accounts, including Microsoft Exchange, wherever you are.

  • How to configure MobileMe to keep all your contacts, email, and events current on your device wirelessly.

  • How to use an iPod and and iTunes 8 to listen to music and podcasts or watch movies, TV shows, and music videos.

  • How to take quality photos and view them, email them, or transfer them to a computer.

  • How to find, download, install, manage, and use thousands of iPhone applications.

  • How use Maps to find any location, plan a route to it, and then track your route with GPS.

  • How to customize the way iPhone looks and works with your own wallpaper, Home screen button layouts, ringtones from your favorites songs, and more.

 

CATEGORY:  Apple Digital Media

COVERS:  Apple iPhone

USER LEVEL:  Beginning-Intermediate

 

Quote from front cover.

 

“As easy as the iPhone is to admire and use, Miser unlocks all of its secrets and offers frank, useful advice for getting the most out of the most amazing product of this century (so far!).”

–Mark A. Kellner,
Technology Columnist,
The Washington Times

iSpeak Spanish Phrasebook (MP3 CD + Guide): The Ultimate Audio + Visual Phrasebook for Your iPod (iSpeak Audio Phrasebook)

Alex Chapin

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Good Product 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Easy to use. I wish they would come out with more versions that were not as heavily tourist based.

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See it. Hear it. Speak it.

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Turn your iPod into a portable translator and put 1,500 Spanish phrases in your pocket.

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Instead of just listening to the latest hits, you can use your iPod to hear and see 1,500 essential Spanish phrases. It's as simple as listening to a song by your favorite artist:

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1. Go to �Artist�--Choose the theme you want..
2. Go to �Album�--Select your topic within the theme..
3. Select the phrase you want to hear�you will not only hear the phrase but see it on your iPod screen!

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Traveling has never been so easy nor sounded so good!

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Designed for use with iPod.
. Also compatible with Zune and most MP3 players. See manual for details.
. Contains one MP3 audio disc and 64-page booklet.
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iPhone VISUAL Quick Tips (Visual Quick Tips)

Kate Shoup

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Lots of great tips 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great book that shows you how to use all the bells and whistles of the iPhone. Easy to follow steps and full color images make it fun to look at and read.

Great Book-A must have for iphone owners! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This has a lot of great tips and I needed this book before I even took my iphone out of the box! It guides you step-by-step and I really love the visual reference ( a necessity for me!) Enjoy-you really can't go wrong with this handy guide.

Great Tips that help with iPod Touch as well. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is a wonderful, full color step by step introduction to the original iPhone. Note that this book doesn't cover the new 3G version of the iPhone. Although I don't have an iPhone yet, I was interested in an iPod Touch since it has everything but phone functions and it was very helpful for navigating through the menus and explaining what the settings cover. The full color pictures are excellent screen shots of the various features. It also walks you through basic set ups for personalization, and explains how to use the main features. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in an iPhone or an iPod Touch and not sure if you will like it. When the 3G version of this books comes out, grab the update. Great info for a reasonable price.

Editorial Review:

Visual Quick Tips

Would you like to discover all the cool ways to use the new iPhone, save time with touch screen shortcuts, and get the most out of every feature of this hot new device? Then this VISUAL Quick Tips book is for you. This book will increase your productivity by providing you with shortcuts, tricks, and tips to help you work smarter and faster.

Learn How To:
* Set up contacts and choose a ringtone
* Download iTunes or watch a movie
* Take a picture or browse the Web

The iPhone Book: How to Do the Things You Want to Do with Your iPhone (Iphone Book: How to Do the Things You Want to Do with Your)

Scott Kelby, Terry White

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There are basically two types of iPhone books out there: (1) The “Tell-me-all-about-it” kind, which includes in-depth discussions on everything from wireless network protocols to advanced compression codes. (2) Then there’s this book, which instead is a “show-me-how-to-do-it” book, that skips all the confusing techno-jargon and just tells you, in plain simple English, exactly how to use the iPhone features you want to use most.

The iPhone Book is from Scott Kelby, the award-winning author of the smash bestseller, The iPod Book, who takes that same highly-acclaimed, casual, straight-to-the-point concept and layout and brings it to learning Apple’s amazing iPhone. Scott teams up once again with gadget guru, and leading iPhone authority, Terry White to put together a book that is an awful lot like the iPhone itself—simple to use and fun to learn. The book’s layout is brilliant, with each page covering just one single topic, so finding the information you need is quick and easy, with a large full-color photo on each page so you can see exactly how it works.

You’ll quickly learn how to use the most useful and most requested iPhone features so you can start having fun, and start really using your iPhone today—right now! If you’re ready to learn “just the funk and not the junk,” it’s all here—in the only book of its kind—and you’re going to love it.

Hacking MythTV (ExtremeTech)

Jarod Wilson, Ed Tittel, Matthew Wright, Justin Korelc

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Want control? Build your own MythTV PC.

You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you want?and because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how, assorted software components and plug-ins, an adventurous nature, and this book to tell you how it all goes together. Voil?he entertainment hub of your dreams.

Learn to do all this and much more:

• Choose HD capture cards and sound drivers.
• Install and configure MythTV.
• Build your program guides.
• Use xine to add DVD menu support.
• Pass raw digital streams to an external decoder.
• Do cool things with your remote control.
• Hack your own themes.
• Export MythTV .nuv recordings to other formats.

A companion Web site provides even more of the know-how you need.

Visit www.wiley.com/go/extremetech for links, updates, news about recent developments in MythTV, and resources shared by other readers like you.

iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development

Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline

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iPhone in Action is a complete introduction to programming for the iPhone, and the first book to cover the newest version of the iPhone SDK version 2.1. Coauthored by one of the leaders of the iPhone development community, this book shows readers how to do web development and use the new iPhone SDK.

This book takes current web developers, shows them how to develop web pages specifically for the iPhone, and then bootstraps them up to SDK programming. It also shows programmers comfortable with structured languages how to program specifically with the SDK. This introductory book to iPhone development lets developers who are new to the iPhone technology dive right in and start creating applications.

The first half of the book covers web programming. Readers learn how to adapt existing web pages to the iPhone using unique metatags and events, as well as all the ins and outs of how to create new web applications just for the iPhone.

The second half covers native iPhone programming using the brand new iPhone SDK. Readers will learn to use the tools which Apple provides to program, debug, and test iPhone applications. This book also covers the major aspects of the SDK, including UI creation, graphics, and the interfaces that Apple provides to access other iPhone apps.

MacBook Portable Genius

Brad Miser

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The Genius is in.

You don't have to be a genius to use a MacBook. But if you want to get the very most out of yours, put this savvy Portable Genius guide to work. Want to connect your MacBook to other Macs? Use Expose(r) to its fullest potential? Troubleshoot? You'll find cool and useful Genius tips, insider secrets, full-color screenshots, and pages of easy-to-access shortcuts and tools that will save you loads of time and make your MacBook IQ soar.

Portable GENIUS

Fun, hip, and straightforward, the new Portable Genius series gives forward-thinking Apple users useful information in handy, compact books that are easy to navigate and don't skimp on the essentials. Collect the whole series and make the most of your Apple digital lifestyle.

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 14 (Make: Technology on Your Time)

Mark Frauenfelder

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Great Magazine! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a really nice magazine for anyone who loves tinkering with electronics. We are trying to find the old issues we have missed and Amazon is definitely the right place for that. The mags are pretty expensive for the subscription but are really resonable here.

Essential magazine for the DIYer 5 out of 5 stars.
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If your do not read these you are definitely missing out on some of the neatest hack ever.

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Keep an eye out for MAKE Volume 14, which has a special section on optics. You'll learn how to make an inexpensive but powerful digital microscope that allows you to display bacteria colonies on a video monitor, a vintage-looking opaque projector that can display artwork from books onto a wall, a model of a crazy-angled room that makes things appear to change size, and a cool kaleidoscope. Also in the issue, we'll show you how to build a mesmerizing taffy pulling machine, a remote control dune buggy with a built-in video camera, a smoke ring cannon, a dollar-store parabolic microphone, and many more fun and fascinating projects.