Hacking Firefox

Using This Book and What You Will Find Here

To use this book, all you need to do is have a basic understanding of how Firefox works, how to install it, and how to find files on your computer. As you read, you will begin to unravel the marvels of coding for Firefox using the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript and then later diving into XML User Interface Language (XUL) and the Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM). The final goal is being able to create extensions that will allow you to customize Firefox to your heart’s content.

This book starts by giving you a brief overview of how to hack manually, how to hack with extensions, and then a quick glance at what you will need to do to back up critical files so that you can practice safe hacking.

Then it breaks down each of the individual components of Firefox from interface to rendering to privacy and walks you through hacking and modifying key files to apply tons of possible interface and functionality changes. It also includes a great list of proven extensions with which you can modify core features of Firefox, as well as the look and feel of the interface.

In addition, this book covers the grassroots efforts that Mozilla and Firefox have become known for among developers—the ability to use the highly extendable Mozilla programming language and interface to modify any aspect of the browser by creating extensions, and also how you can change the appearance of the browser by creating themes.


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Video Blogging

I divided this book into parts, which I organized by topic. The parts point out the most important aspects of videoblogging. If you’re looking for information on a specific videoblogging topic, check the index or skim the headings in the table of contents and flip to the indicated page.

By design, this book enables you to get as much (or as little) information as you need at any particular moment. Need to know something fast to set up an RSS feed? Read the section of Chapter 13 that applies. Videoblogging For Dummies is intended as a reference that you can reach for again and again whenever some new question about videoblogging comes up.

Part I: Zen and the Art of Videoblogs

This part gives an overview of videoblogging. It’s part introduction, and part quick-and-dirty get-you-started fun. Here’s where you find information on watching videoblogs, getting your computer set up for videoblogging, and creating your first, basic videoblog post.

Part II: Step Away from the Camera

Okay, this part doesn’t really get away from the camera, but it does focus on the parts of videoblogging where you don’t necessarily want the camera present. For example, getting feedback on your videoblog, branding a look and feel, overcoming stage fright, and planning a videoblog entry — as well as scripting it — are all in this part.

Part III: Lights, Camera, Vlog!

This part talks about more advanced filmmaking techniques, including composition, lighting, sound, and file formats and compression. If you’re an experienced videographer, you’ll find the file formats section interesting, but if you’re new to storytelling through a lens, then you’ll want to read Chapter 9 on composing shots and using the camerawork to tell your story.

Part IV: Going Public

In this part, you get the preflight briefing about putting your videoblog on the Internet, publicizing it, managing the permissions, and keeping an eye on your traffic and bandwidth expenses.

Part V: The Part of Tens

I’ve remained true to For Dummies style by including a Part of Tens. The chapters in this part can help you quickly find ten or so vlogs to watch, personal vlogging ideas, and business videoblogging ideas. The Part of Tens is a resource you can turn to again and again.


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Hacking Gmail

Welcome to Hacking Gmail. Thanks for buying this book. If you haven’t bought it, you should. It’s very good, and once you buy it you can stop loitering around the bookstore stacks. Go on: Buy it, sit down, have a coffee. See? Comfier isn’t it? Ah. Hacking Gmail. It’s a manly hobby, and this book will tell you how. Sorry? What’s Gmail, you ask? Well, let me tell you . ..

What’s Gmail?

March 31, 2004. A watershed in human history. Google’s web-based e-mail ser¬vice, still now at the time of this writing in Beta, and available only to people invited by other existing users, was launched. Offering a gigabyte of storage, an incredibly advanced JavaScript interface, and a series of user interface innovations, Gmail was an instant hit among those who could get access to the system. Today, more than a year later, Gmail is proving to be one of the flagship applications on the web—a truly rich application within the browser, combined with the server-based power of the world’s leading search engine.

Hacking Gmail?

Of course, all that power just begs to be abused. Power corrupts, as they say, and hackers are nothing but a corrupt bunch: Almost as soon as Gmail was launched, hackers were looking at ways to use those capabilities for other purposes. They investigated the incredibly rich interface, and saw how much of the process¬ing is done on the user’s own machine; they burrowed into the communication between the browser and the server; and they developed a series of interfaces for scripting languages to allow you to control Gmail from your own programs.

This book shows what they did, how to do it yourself, and what to do after you’ve mastered the techniques. Meanwhile, you’ll also learn all about Ajax, the terribly fashionable JavaScript technique that Gmail brought into the mainstream. Two topics for the price of one!

What’s in This Book?

There are three parts to this book, each lovingly crafted to bring you, young Jedi, to the peak of Gmailing excellence. They are:
Part I: Starting to Use Gmail

Where you learn to use Gmail like a professional. A professional Gmail user, no less. A really skilled professional Gmail user. With a degree in Gmail. A Gmail ninja. A Gmail ninja with a black belt in Gmail from the secret Gmail training school on Mount Gmail. You might actually be part Gmail. Perhaps you’ve named your first born child after Gmail. You live in the Google Headquarters. You are Larry Page. You get the idea.

Part II: Getting Inside Gmail

Where you find out how Gmail works, and how you can use modern scripting languages to control it.

Part III: Conquering Gmail

Where you put these new skills to the test, wrangling Gmail into fiendishly clever uses, totally unlike those Google intended.

Whom Is This Book For?

You. Of course it is. If you picked up a book called Hacking Gmail, you’re very likely to want it. If you’re a programmer looking to use Gmail in wacky ways, this book is for you. If you’re a power user looking to hack together scripts to do dan¬gerously efficient things with your mail, this book is for you. If you’re the parent, best friend, or lover of someone who answers to that description, this book is for them, and you should buy two copies. Really. It’s great. And the shiny cover looks cool, no? I tell you, metallic covers are all the thing.

Hacking Carefully

It must be said here in plain English, and elsewhere by a battalion of scary lawyer folk, that I take no responsibility whatsoever for anything anyone does after reading this book. If you lose data; get folded, spindled, or mutilated; or have your Gmail account suspended, it is not my fault. The fine folks at Google, it has to be said, have played no part in the writing of this book, and most likely do not approve of the contents within. They may have me killed. Either way, I take no responsibility for anything. You’re on your own, kiddo. As am I.
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Hacking GPS

Chapter 1: GPS Secrets.

Hidden Secrets
Garmin Secret Screens
Hard Resets
Soft Resets
Warm Resets
Full GPS Resets
Diagnostic Screens
Autolocating
Magellan Secret Screens
Magellan Meridian Series
After a Hard or Soft Reset
Chapter 2: Building GPS Data Cables and Power Cords
Cables Demystified
The Data Cable
Power Cords
Combo Cables
Combining Cable Types
Multi-GPS Cables
Multi-Data Cables
Multi-Data/Power Cables
Multi-Data/Power/GPS Cables
Making Your Own Data Cables
Materials You Will Need
Don’t Want to Buy a Connector?
Making Power Cords
Power Cord Assembly
Testing

Precautions 3
2GPS/iPAQ_Connections
Cradle Modification
Testing the Connection
Making Multi Cables.
Summary.

Chapter 3: Power Hacks
GPS Power Needs.
Lithium Batteries
Rechargeable (NiMH) Batteries
Battery Do’s and Don’ts
Power Hacks
Carrying Your Own 12-Volt Power Supply
Battery Packs
A Different Kind of Battery Pack
Alternative Power Supplies
Summary.
Chapter 4: Antenna Hacks
The GPS Antenna
Quad-Helix Orientation
Patch Antenna Orientation.
Best Performance Summary
External Antennas
Antenna Placement
Other Things to Avoid
Reradiating Antennas
Personal Reradiating Antenna
Communal Reradiating Antenna
Reradiating Antenna Considerations
Setting Up a Reradiating Antenna in a Car
Testing the System
Making the System Permanent
Carrying a GPS Signal via Cable
How Much Signal Do You Need?
Cable Losses
Connector Losses
Using a Signal Repeater.
Building Your Own Mega GPS Antenna
Materials
Building the Antenna
Summary.

Chapter 5: Protecting Your GPS
Screen Damage
Screen Protectors
More Screen Armoring
Commercial Protection for GPS and PDAs
Mounting GPS
Car Mounting
Making a Personalized Case
Summary

Chapter 6: Hacking the Firmware.
Firmware
Updating Warnings.
Updating the Firmware.
Hacking GPS Firmware
Bypassing the Garmin eTrex Vista Startup Screen.
Bypassing the Garmin eTrex Legend Startup Screen
Bypassing the Garmin eTrex Venture Startup Screen.
MeMap Personalization.
Manual Firmware Editing.
Magellan GPS Firmware Modifications..
Recovering from a Failed Firmware Load.
Garmin.
Magellan
Summary

Chapter 7: Making Connections
The PC — GPS Relationship
Connection Types
Which Connection Is Best?
Troubleshooting Problems.
PC Connection Trouble
General PDA Connection Trouble.
Software-Specific Issues
Erratic Mouse Pointer after Connecting a GPS
Windows XP Problem: Microsoft Ball Point.
Microsoft MapPoint Troubleshooting.
USB-to-Serial Converters.
Summary
Chapter 8: GPS Data.
GPS Data Collection
Position, Velocity, Time.
Waypoints.
Working with the Data.
EasyGPS.
G7toWin
Creative Uses of GPS Data
Sharing Waypoints.
Adding GPS Information to Digital Photos.
Lightning Detector and Plotter.
Wardriving.
GPS in Programming.
Summary..
Chapter 9: Examining the Data.
NMEA.
NMEA Sentences.
NMEA Sentence Structure
A Closer Look at NMEA Sentences.
Examining NMEA Sentences.
NMEA Checksum.
SiRF..
Using NMEA Sentences.
GPS NMEA LOG.
GPS Diagnostic
RECSIM III
Using NMEA.
GpsGate
Recording Actual NMEA Sentences with GpsGate
Recording Simulated NMEA Using GpsGate
Data Playback..
Why Bother with NMEA?
Ensuring That Your GPS Works
Avoiding Data Corruption
Summary.
Chapter 10: More Data Tricks.
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