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• 16 Ways to Fix It When Windows 11 Folder Thumbnails Aren't Showing Up (lifewire.com)

Windows 11 thumbnail display restore or repair. [icon, thumbnail, windows 11]

 

Air Conditioning Primere

Basics of Air Conditioning

Gases Identification

 

 

**Kindly contact if linking to the pics above is required to original site as I dont have the original link to these sites

#Technology #Air Conditioning #AC Gas types

Science and Technology

Journal of Geeky feelings - everything that maters about following -

Science, 

Technology, 

Computers - Software, Hardware, Coding,

Working Principles, 

Mathematics, 

Invention and Discoveries.

Wonders and unsolved thoughts, phenomenon.

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Recent Notes:

August 2020, Note 01

Google's New Blogger Interface (My Feeling)


Half an inch for each post?? Terrible to manage all the posts!
Give back the old Post manage interface or compact mode like GMail at least. I can bet the Interface designer is not a regular blog user. Must be a Plain Stupid.
Also pop up Labels in Manage Post is not al all preferable. Drop down labels are welcome as they give more dimension to browse, multiple select and rectify/change labels.
Also Popup label in Post editor is very terrible. rather drop down would be preferable. We are not using excel, it is a blog client, do you want users to spend time moving around the slow screen?

Also i used the old editor to edit blogs from mobile device, but now half the mobile screen is hidden with crap and it is useless to edit in mobile device now!
Pls hire some blogger to design the interface and not some idiot astronaut or sci-fi control panel designer.
Focus on Usability and not on Looks and features... your new design is like a pimp good to see but no life!

-End

Geek Thoughts | July2020

Journal of Geeky feelings - everything that maters about Science, Technology, Computers, Software, Hardware, Working Principles, Mathematics and Invention and Discoveries.

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Recent Notes:

Note 2, July 2020
Really hate that google phones snooped on us through voice listening.  Even keeping the nearby and chatting it captures keywords and in next 24hours poop... on your screen u see it throuwing all ads, vids and what not regarding that keyword!

Note 1, July 2020
Is Google successful?
Google killed successfully
1. Orkut
2. Hangout Messenger app
3. Picasa App and Web
4. Blogger
5. Made Android spyware in name of opensource!
6. ....... pls fill up, i know the list dont ends here..

And we call #google sucessful! 

Lesser known fact - Inventor of ATM was born in Shillong, Meghalaya/ India

John Adrian Shepherd-Barron, (23 June 1925 – 15 May 2010) was a British inventor, who pioneered the development of the cash machine, sometimes referred to as the Automated Teller Machine or ATM.
Barclays commissioned Shepherd-Barron to build six cash dispensers, the first of which was installed at a branch in the north London suburb of Enfield on June 27 1967.

It is interesting, Read the full article here at - thenortheasttoday (TNT)

Kerosene Radio Fan / Lamp or Steam powered fan of British East India Era [Video]

Below is a interesting Fan during the regime of East India, British India.

We have only heard of these sort of fans from our grand fathers but never seen it. These were may be used by more privileged Indians or the British officers.

It is interesting gadget that is not taught to us in the Primary or Secondary schools in our time, but I think every one and the kids definitely should know about this.

Also found this more detailed video (in Hindi) about the working and origin of the fan.

Just a little google and one such I found on Amazon India being sold for 20K.

Pandemics, Reduce life expectancy and the Climate Change - A Serious Issue.

When you get a virus, you get a fever. That's the human body raising its core temperature to kill the virus. Planet Earth works the same way: Global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus. We're making our planet sick. A cull is our only hope. If we don't reduce our population ourselves, there's only one of two ways this can go: The host kills the virus, or the virus kills the host. Either way...

 - Quote from the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service  

Cancer (noun): Disease that don't see between rich, poor, young, old, religion or nationality.
Coronavirus (noun): A virus that caused a pandemic that killed 3mil in last 4months.
Lesson (noun): Something which we learn over the period.

We are amused with Military expenditures, Huge expenses in Space researches as well as advancement in Medical Science. 
But this advanced Medical science is least accessible to the masses in any country be it USA, Italy, UK, India, Middle East Countries let alone the Third World Countries and even countries like India, USA etc. where the  Government can afford to invest in the medical improvements and make it accessible to the population but due to capitalism mindset and business and money making approach private players are enjoying the cream and also they are introducing means and mechanisms of medical science only if it gives them good returns, good profits.
All this while the successive Governments of the world is sitting DUCK because free or subsidized medical treatment is hopeless and will not fetch the Nation any money.

It is high times to make medical advancement reachable to all irrespective of rich or poor and Govt.of all nations priorities Medical expenses as much as military expenses!

Just to summarize, think like if no pandemic alert was there, atleast these actors fightig cancer could be flown to US or Uk and chances of treatment was there.

RIP  #RishiKapoor #IrrfanKhan #ChuniGoswami

The Fastest Supercomputer on Earth Is Being Deployed Against Coronavirus - ExtremeTech

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/307381-the-fastest-supercomputer-on-earth-is-being-deployed-against-coronavirus

The US Department of Energy has announced that the Summit supercomputer will be used to attempt to find a treatment or cure for Covid-19. To clarify: The name of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is SARS-CoV-2. Thanks to Maya Posch for catching this distinction.

Summit is a 10MW machine built with 4,608 processing nodes. Each node contains 2x Power9 CPUs at 3.07GHz and six Nvidia Volta V100 GPUs. It’s the fastest supercomputer on Earth, with a demonstrated performance of 148.6 petaFLOPS in Linpack and peak performance of over 200 petaFLOPS.

Manufacturing process of Glass Bottle

An amazing Video tweet of Manufacturing process of glass bottle-

This is the manufacturing process of a glass bottle

pic.twitter.com/a4ugKeZ29x

— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) January 25, 2020

Remembering the Periodic Tables

https://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1201601746843373573?s=09

Cannot ignore those High School days!!

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Qualcomm 808, 810 and Upcoming 820 Snapdragon feature comparisons

	Snapdragon 808	Snapdragon 810	Snapdragon 820
CPU	Up to 2 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A57, quad-core Cortex A53 CPU 64-bit	Up to 2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex A57, quad-core A53 CPU 64-bit	Up to 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU 64-bit
GPU	Adreno 418	Adreno 430	Adreno 530
Modem	X10 LTE - LTE Advanced 3x20MHz Carrier Aggregation in the downlink - Cat 9 speeds up to 450 Mbps down/50 Mbps up - Global Mode RF360 support	X10 LTE - LTE Advanced 3x20MHz Carrier Aggregation in the downlink - Cat 9 speeds up to 450 Mbps down/50 Mbps up - Global Mode RF360 support	X12 LTE - LTE Advanced 3x20MHz Carrier Aggregation in the downlink, 2x20 MHZ in the uplink - Cat 12/13 speeds up to 600 Mbps down/150 Mbps up - Global Mode RF360 support
Video/audio	1080p and 4K Ultra HD capture, playback, and display 4K playback with H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) 4K capture with H.264 (AVC)	1080p and 4K Ultra HD capture, playback, and display 4K capture and playback with H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC)	1080p and 4K Ultra HD capture, playback, and display 4K capture and playback with H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC)
Camera	Up to 21MP	Up to 55MP	Up to 28MP 2x Spectra Camera ISP
Display	2K native and 4K external displays Ultra HD on-device display concurrent with Ultra HD output to HDTV	4K native and 4K external displays Ultra HD on-device display concurrent with Ultra HD output to HDTV	4K native and 4K external displays Ultra HD on-device display concurrent with Ultra HD output to HDTV

Qualcomm 820 Video ~ https://www.qualcomm.com/videos/meet-snapdragon-820

Who’s who in the smartphone camera business | AndroidAuthority

• Sony’s image sensors have found their way into numerous smartphones and tablets, even if the company doesn’t provide the whole module.


• The company accounted for roughly 40 percent of all smartphone image sensors in 2014.

• the difference is that image sensors are responsible for converting the light into digital information, which determines the number of megapixels, pixel size and density, recording frame rates, etc. The broader camera module determines focus, aperture and other attributes.


• Sony’s high-end image sensors fall under the Exmor RS brand name. Its latest model is the Back Side Illuminated (BSI) 21 megapixel IMX230, which has started to find its way into the latest smartphones. It’s IMX240 powers the Galaxy Note 4 and some S6 models, while the IMX234 forms the basis of the LG G4’s camera.


• The company isn’t just catering to the very high-end market, Sony’s 8MP and 13MP mid-range sensors have been in high demand from Chinese smartphone manufacturers looking to decent cameras at a reasonable cost. The 13 megapixel IMX214 has proven particularly popular with manufacturers like Huawei and OPPO over the past twelve months.

For more details - Head on to read more and find our the other biggies fighting for the rest 60% image sensor market share war!

2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for theinternet | The Verge

What causes leap seconds? Earthquakes, tidal drag, the weather

• On June 30th at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second. Or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 — before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015.


• This addition of a leap second, announced by the Paris Observatory this week, is being added to keep terrestrial clocks in step with the vagaries of astronomical time — in this case, the slowing of the Earth’s rotation.


• when the last leap second was added back in 2012, more than a few sites had trouble keeping pace. As reported by Phys.org, Foursquare, Reddit, LinkedIn, and StumbledUpon all crashed when the leap second ticked unexpectedly into place.

via 2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internet | The Verge.

Also read ::

June 30th is a second too long to keep clocks accurate

The leap second is coming to confuse the internet today

Engineers Just Broke the Capacity Limit For Fiber Optic Transmission

Read the detailed article @ http://gizmodo.com/engineers-just-broke-the-capacity-limit-for-fiber-optic-1714070706 by Maddie Stone

• engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fiber optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs.


• If you boost the power too much, the beams of laser light that carry data start interfering with one another, until eventually, the signal degrades and information is lost. - optical fiber transmission has certain physical limitations.


• we heard reports that we’re on the verge of running out of internet,…


• In experiments performed at UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute, electrical engineers were able to increase the power of optical signals nearly 20 fold, deciphering information after it had travelled a record-breaking 7,400 miles, without the use of costly electronic regenerators.


• the researchers developed wideband “frequency combs” that essentially condition streams of information before they’re sent out, such that any interference that occurs along the way is predictable. At the receiving end of the fiber, the information can unscrambled and fully restored.

Today’s fiber optic systems are a little like quicksand. With quicksand, the more you struggle, the faster you sink. With fiber optics, after a certain point, the more power you add to the signal, the more distortion you get, in effect preventing a longer reach. Our approach removes this power limit, which in turn extends how far signals can travel in optical fiber without needing a repeater.

Android M developer preview now available for 12 Sony Xperia devices |AndroidAuthority

Unless you own a Nexus 5, 6, 9 or Player, you most likely haven’t been able to try out the new Android M developer preview that was just recently announced. However, if you own a somewhat recent Xperia device, you’ll now have the opportunity to test out the preview software for yourself. Sony has just released a new Android M dev preview build for 12 various Xperia devices as part of the company’s Open Device program.

The list of supported devices includes the Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact, Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet, Xperia Z1 Compact, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia E3, Xperia M2, Xperia T2 Ultra and Xperia T3. Much like flashing Android M on a Nexus device, this process seems to be pretty simple. All of the necessary instructions and files are available on Sony’s website and through the company’s easy-to-follow guide.

via Android M developer preview now available for 12 Sony Xperia devices | AndroidAuthority.





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Add tables to wordpress.com post or page

What I'd be talking about in the following texts is meaningful only if you are a Wordpress.com blogger or any other blogger who wants to apply table formatting onto there post or pages.

Also this is applicable if the blog site supports HTML codes. Here I refer to wordpress.com blog method as I host my blog on wordpress only. For other blog, find out the way to access code editor in blog. It is supported by most like Blogger and LiveJournal.

For novice way of adding tables to the wordpress.com blog, just add the below html code in text view in wordpress editor.

Thereafter jump to Visual editor, and replace the text within the cells with the matter or content of your own. That's it, simple.

<table border="1">
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>Row 1 cell 1</td>
 <td>Row 1 Cell 2</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Row 2 Cell 1</td>
 <td>Row 2 Cell 2</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Row 3 Cell 1</td>
 <td>Row 3 Cell 2</td>
 </tr> 

Source - https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-create-tables-in-wordpresscom?replies=19

Share photos from Picasa Desktop App to Facebook

Picasa Uploader on Facebook.

If you are among those who still use Google's Picasa desktop app. to manage photo collection then you will find probably that you cannot share photos directly to Facebook.

Limited version of this app will let you upload maximum 20 pics at once and unlimited uploads to Facebook albums.

Installation is pretty straight forward, just follow the guide on this link, install Adobe air and then install the Facebook button for picasa. Of course picasa must be pre-installed on your PC.

https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/

Samsung Acknowledges Galaxy S6 Clear View Cover Is Causing Scratches |NDTV Gadgets

via Samsung Acknowledges Galaxy S6 Clear View Cover Is Causing Scratches | NDTV Gadgets.

According to several posts by users on the XDA forum, the Clear View cover by Samsung is said to be the culprit for several minute yet visible scratches on the handset's Corning Gorilla Glass 4-protected display. Users are posting images of tiny scratches on the screen on almost brand new Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge handsets.

Users who got in touch with Samsung have been told that the firm is aware of the issue and is currently investigating it. Users also add they are being told the firm is planning a fix or compensation for the affected users. SamMobile also reports that Samsung is looking into the issue.

Testing my Xperia ZR at the bottom of my Aquarium

7 must-know privacy tips for Instagram newbies | here's the thing

Now here's a Guide @http://heresthethingblog.com.

Goes through lots of details on setting privacy features on Instagram. Although Instagram's privacy are settings are limited, it's worthwhile to note these - especially for those who are concerned with online privacy and online stalkers.

One more thing - if you are going to read this long article to find out if Instagram supports individual photo privacy, then the answer is NO ;-). Yup - it doesn't.

7 must-know privacy tips for Instagram newbies

via 7 must-know privacy tips for Instagram newbies | here's the thing.