Category: IT Tips

Snap-on Seek Thermal Camera

leaky-door-100455236-mediumThe Seek Thermal camera is an impressive little piece of hardware. According to the company, the Android-compatible version of the camera comes equipped with the following:

• True thermal sensor
• Long wave infrared: 7.2-13 microns
• Vanadium oxide micro bolometer
• 12 μm pixel pitch
• 206 x 156 resolution array, which equals 32k thermal pixels
• Custom chalcogenide lens with 36 degree field of view
• Durable magnesium housing4
• Detection from -40C to +330C

The 12-micron sensor chip and camera components were developed in collaboration with Raytheon, a California-based company that’s specializes in weapons technology and military and commercial-grade electronics.

 

For more information please refer to their website at http://www.thermal.com/

Double your One Drive Storage

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September, and you will get 30 GB of free OneDrive storage moving forward (15 GB base and 15 GB camera roll bonus).

 

If you haven’t created the One Drive account please click the link below to do it. The promotion only runs till the end of September so please hurry.

 

https://onedrive.live.com/?invref=b8d867c5d7299190&invsrc=90

USB Selective Suspend – Turn On or Off

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The USB selective suspend feature allows the hub driver to suspend an individual USB port without affecting the operation of the other USB ports on the hub. Selective suspension of USB devices is especially useful in portable computers, since it helps conserve battery power. Many devices, such as fingerprint readers and other kinds of biometric scanners, only require power intermittently. Suspending such devices, when the device is not in use, reduces overall power consumption. More importantly, any device that is not selectively suspended may prevent the USB host controller from disabling its transfer schedule, which resides in system memory. DMA transfers by the host controller to the scheduler can prevent the system’s processors from entering deeper sleep states, such as hibernate.

 

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off USB selective suspend to automatically power down idle USB devices in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

 

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/147369-usb-selective-suspend-turn-off.html

Python vs. Java

Udacity Instructor Weighs In On Programming Languages

 #Python, a programming language named not after a snake species but a 1970s British television comedy sketch, is gaining popularity in colleges across the US. In a recent article, ComputerWorld reported that  “Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming.” The article goes on to suggest that majority of top computer science departments in the US now use Python to teach coding.
Click below to read the full article.

http://blog.udacity.com/2014/08/python-vs-java-udacity-instructor.html#sthash.igCGtf0o.dpuf