Perseverance

Perseverance is scheduled to land on Mars February 18, 2021 at 3:43 PM EST

Perseverance Rover

Perseverance carries 19 cameras, that's more than any interplanetary mission in history.

If Martians exist, Perseverance will find them.

19 cameras total on the rover: 9 for engineering (color); 3 for entry, descent and landing (1 black-and-white dedicated to Terrain-Relative Navigation and 2 color for public engagement and engineering reconstruction of entry, descent and landing); 2 for Mastcam-Z (color with zoom); 1 for SuperCam (color); 2 for SHERLOC (color); 1 for PIXL (black-and-white with some color capabilities); and 1 for MEDA (black-and-white)

3 cameras on the back shell: all color, all looking up to capture parachute inflation

1 camera on the descent stage: color, looking down to view the rover from above

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Perseverance even has cameras to capture the landing. This is one crazy Camera App.

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Perseverance has landed. News of Landing

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Fix That Obnoxious Blinking Cursor

Years ago I wrote a utility called NoBlink Accelerator for Windows. If you are like me, you will want to stop the constant blinking cursor so you can concentrate on the subject. 👀  

Here's the fix for any Mac including one running Big Sur:

Open Terminal and enter these commands:

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod -float -1

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 4000

defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 100

This should work on most Mac OS Applications.

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Here's the fix in Windows

In keyboard properties, adjust the slider of Text Cursor blink rate as per your choice.

Please post comments if you have any other cursor ideas 

Not From Earth App

The Not From Earth Alien Detection App is within weeks of launching. We've got a link to their first video tutorial.

This App is a lot of fun. It uses image recognition, segmentation, style transfer effects and more.

Website:
http://www.notfrom.earth

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/nefapp

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/notfrom.earth/




Much more to come about this App because of the technology it uses. 

MacBook Pro 16 Inch

The new Macbook Pro 16 inch is the best laptop ever built by Apple. I just purchased one and I love it. Finally a computer for on the go programmers, designers and writers with nothing left behind.

Here's why:

1. At full use,  the battery lasts 11 hours. 

2. Comes with an Immersive 16-Inch Retina Display that is 80 Percent Faster

3. They finally fixed the keyboard. I'm not kidding. 

4. The display has a resolution of 3072x1920 and a higher pixel density of 226 ppi. The 16-inch Retina display delivers 6 million pixels.

5. It comes with advanced thermal architecture. The best ever in a notebook. So it runs at higher power for sustained periods of time. 

6.  The latest 6- and 8-core 9th-generation processors with Turbo Boost speeds up to 5.0 GHz, deliver 2.1 times faster performance than the quad-core 15-inch MacBook Pro. This thing rips. 

7.  It comes with a new AMD Radeon Pro 5000M series graphics with GDDR6 video memory upgradable from 4 GB to 8GB of VRAM. Th GPU is 80 percent faster than the previous high-end configuration.

8. You are able to upgrade to 8 TB of storage.

At a similar price as previous Macbooks, Apple finally has a product that is worth the cost.

Not From Earth Photos

Fun Alien Photos

There are a lot of fun photos being posted here: https://www.instagram.com/notfrom.earth/

The Not From Earth App has both a depth matte camera as well as DeepAI photo segmentation. This lets the App place discovered aliens on their home planet.

For Example:

Learn more about this App here:

www.notfrom.earth

The Art of Self Publishing

I wrote an article on Medium for Self-Publishing.

Based on my efforts, I wrote down helpful steps, tips and told about the tools and websites you need to know about and how to use them.