Recent Software

On this page you'll find works of mine that I once found worth publishing on the web. I really need to get some of my current stuff published here, but I'm a bit busy currently. I'll post the Xing / OpenBC Greasemonkey script from my blog entries here though as I've been looking for it myself a number of times now (new PCs go like this: Operating system, Firefox, Adblock plus, Greasemonkey, Xing/OpenBC script, ...).

Xing / OpenBC Greasemonkey script

Script last updated: 02.08.08

Use this script to enlarge people's pictures as you mouse-over them. See this blog entry for how it works and where it originally came from. Download (2kB).

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Old Software

I don't think that "old stuff" should be removed from the web because I found myself looking for old goodies a number of times.

So here you go:

Magellan GPS: "MagBack" version 1.00ß

Software last updated: 01.11.00
Documentation last updated: 15.06.03

MagBack is a DOS application that allows you to backup your Magellan GPS's Waypoints, Routes and the Track History to virtually any PC. It supports individual descriptions for your Waypoints and Routes either embedded in the NMEA files or in seperate Databases to help you keep a proper file of your locations for selective restore operations.
Warning: This software is for GPS AND PC professionals only. If you need something easy to use and/or configure check out the software section on www.magellangps.com. MagBack will also NOT work with units of other brands. For these (and lotsa Magellan stuff) check Joe Mehaffey and Jack Yeazel's GPS Information site.
MagBack works under anything from DOS 3.0 (including all flavours of Microsoft Windows up and until XP (Vista has no DOS Emulation mode AFAIK)) and will happily live on a floppy while you're travelling. (Tip: Also put a small Editor on the floppy so that you can edit MAGBACK.INI and your data files away from home.)

Download MagBack v1.00ß (40kB, Freeware, no legal liability accepted whatsoever).
For more information read MAGBACK.TXT from the zip.

M330 Users: MagBack v1.00ß will not work well with the M330 as this unit supports lowercase waypoint identifiers which break the NMEA 0183 standard. I have no clue how Magellan implemented this and their protocol docs had not been updated when I did MagBack in '99.

A sample database of 13449 waypoints (715kB) with Embedded Descriptions is available here too. There is also a seperate .db file included to show you the different alternatives of storing descriptions with waypoints and their pros and cons.
Warning: The source for the waypoint file came from the Internet (www.kingwoodcable.com/gpswaypoints/). The data is not acceptable for navigation purposes!