M-241.: Holux M-241 Bluetooth Data Logger GPS (Runs on AA Battery, MTK Chipset, 130,000 Waypoints) Review

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This is a good compact GPS logger, which is primarily intended for geotagging digital photos.

The idea here is that the GPS logger periodically records your GPS location and then, later on, the Holux Logger Utility takes this timestamped GPS information and compares it against the JPG timestamps on your photos. Then for each photo, it can find the GPS record that best matches the photo time and add that GPS location information to the photo.

The basic idea works well. The M-241 is sometimes a little awkward to use, but I like mine enough that after I accidentally lost my first one, I quickly bought a second. I use the GPS info for both tagging photos and for generating route maps.

Some specific positives:
* The logger is very compact and easily fits into a pocket.
* The Holux logger utility uploads GPS data as either proprietary TRL files or as Google Earth KML files. The KML files can be easily viewed with Google Earth.
* GPS signal sensitivity is quite good. It can sometimes take ten minutes or so to get an initial fix, but it tracks quickly thereafter.
* The LCD display is useful: I enjoy being able to watch things like direction, or speed, or travel distance as I travel.

Now some weaknesses:
* A Duracell Alkaline AA lasts me about 15 hours and a Lithium AA about 22 hours. (Fairly typical battery life for a GPS device.)
* The battery case cover is rather flimsy and needs cautious handling.
* The two button control UI on the logger takes a little getting used to. I can now navigate it quickly, but I initially found it rather frustrating.
* The logger utility UI is distinctly clunky and the manual is rather weak. The UI does the job, but not particularly elegantly.
* You need to keep your camera time synchronized with the logger’s time and you need to compensate for timezone differences when you do the photo tagging.

You can use either USB or Bluetooth to communicate with the logger. I’ve been using USB on Vista, without any problems. I can’t speak to the Bluetooth functionality.

Some suggestions:
* Make sure to download the latest firmware and logger utility from the Holux website. The latest versions have bug fixes and some feature additions.
* In the logger settings, turn “AutoLog” to “on”. This means it will start logging as soon as it gets a GPS fix, and you don’t have to remember to separately turn on logging.
* Rather than worrying about time zones, I ended up leaving my camera permanently in UTC+0 (GMT). The logger always writes its TRL records in UTC+0, so this means I can tag photos without having to specify a timezone adjustment.
* By default, the logger logs every 5 seconds. I moved it to every 30 seconds, which I find adequate for photo location and lets me store over a month of records.
* If you’re using USB, it’s worth turning off the Bluetooth radio to save power. (This is a new feature in the v1.12 firmware.)

Overall, this isn’t perfect, but I find it very convenient as a lightweight tool for GPS and photo logging.

M-241.: Holux M-241 Bluetooth Data Logger GPS (Runs on AA Battery, MTK Chipset, 130,000 Waypoints) Feature

• The Holux M 241 Bluetooth GPS logger provides real time coordinate logging and easy-to-use trip guiding service.
• Holux M-241 is capable to record up to 120,000 records positions, including longitude, latitude, UTC, and height data.
• Besides the logger function, you are also able to enjoy a brand new experience in driving with BluetoothTM
• 51 parallel satellite-searching channels for fast acquisition and reacquisition
• LCD display ( 32 x 8.9mm/128 x 32 pixels) to show position information, speed, capable logging memory size

M-241.: Holux M-241 Bluetooth Data Logger GPS (Runs on AA Battery, MTK Chipset, 130,000 Waypoints) Overview

The M-241 is a high performance wireless GPS logger with the following features:# Dual interface (Bluetooth + GPS-mouse by USB cable).# Compatible with Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP) completely.# Powered by one AA battery.# LCD display to show position information, speed, capable logging memory size, date & time.# Capable memory size to record up to 130,000 positions, including longitude, latitude, time, and altitude.# Personal settings to select the logging mode by distance or time, unit by Kilometer or mile, and 3 languages (English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese) support.

M-241.: Holux M-241 Bluetooth Data Logger GPS (Runs on AA Battery, MTK Chipset, 130,000 Waypoints) Specifications

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simple logger that works – Paul Macey – Los Angeles, CA United States
I’ve had this for a few months, and it works. I take it hiking and use other software (GPicSync, free) to geotag the photos. Make sure you set your camera to the right time (get the “true” time from the logger). I seems pretty accurate, finds the satellites after a little while (< 1 min), and has enough recording options. I really like that it uses AA batteries; it will run all day on a lithium rechargeable (2700 mah) that I also use for my camera. When I'm away for a few days, I just bring extra AA's. It can store a lot of waypoints. It has distance and time logging options, can display speed, distance traveled, location, can be locked to avoid accidentally turning logging on/off. And it's been knocked around without complaining.

The USB and bluetooth work fine on a couple of computers (XP); it is important to install the USB drivers before connecting it. I find the USB much easier than the bluetooth. You can adjust the settings from the software, which makes life easier.

OK, some quirks: the software appears to offer geotagging, but does not; the GPicSync works great though. With the USB connection, you have to figure out which COM port it connects to; this is trial and error (COM6 for me), but it stays the same each time you connect it. If it runs out of power while logging, the file is lost (same thing if you accidentally turn it off); there is a low-battery indicator, but you need to be checking it pretty regularly, or have a good idea how long your battery will last. The battery cover feels pretty fragile. You can’t tell it to start logging until you get a fix on the satellites, which means each time you turn it on you need to remember to start logging a minute later.

I think for money and convenience (AA, reasonable memory, accuracy), it’s the best logging option – at least in March it was!
Positives and negatives – Christopher Erickson –
Cute little gadget. It is a comparatively fast and sensitive little Bluetooth GPS unit with a tiny display that can show Lat/Lon/Alt/Speed/Compass/etc. and has a backlight. It will also automatically or manually log waypoints and routes with a modest number of configurable options. It works great with my Treo 680 Smartphone and DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld Edition. In fact it is more reliable than my DeLorme Bluetooth GPS’s. Running 12 hours on an alkaline AA battery is rather amazing. The fact that the accompanying software can export the saved waypoint and route data in a number of formats, including NMEA and Google Earth KMZ format is cool. The software is a bit primative but it seems to work. I hope they come out with some updates.

Now for the negatives.

The USB driver doesn’t seem to work properly on XP!!!

It seems to work okay on Win2K Pro.

Fortunately it is possible to connect your XP PC and the data download software to the M-241 over Bluetooth and get the data off of it. Slowly.

And Holux Technical Support (email to China) seems to be strictly a one-way communication medium. You send them emails and nothing ever comes back.

Would I buy it again? Yes! It’s cheap and works great as an amazingly sensitive and fast little GPS. And if you can negotiate the usual quirks and user hostility of Bluetooth, you can make it do everything that Holux promises it can do. However it sure would be nice if Holux fixed the stupid USB driver for XP!

-Christopher Erickson

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Such electronics could help to eliminate mildly radioactive substances while providing cheap and reliable power.

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The material in question is sulfur 35, an energy packed isotope of an element most people associate with the smell, and color, of rotten eggs. In nature, sulfur 35 forms when cosmic rays break apart argon in the upper atmosphere.
Within a battery, sulfur 35 spits out mildly radioactive electrons as it decays. To harvest those electrons and convert them into electricity, Kwon surrounds the sulfur with selenium, a liquid semiconductor. The selenium traps the electrons trying to escape, channeling them into a source of electricity.
Less than one milligram of sulfur 35 is contained in a package smaller than a penny. Using such a small amount helps to ensure that the levels of radiation are small, but also limits the amount of power that can be produced.
“We are talking about nanowatts of power here,” said Kwon. “That power level can be increased if we use a material with a higher energy density.”
Uranium or other materials that emit either more radiation or more energetic radiation should boost the power supply. Kwon is currently studying other potential power sources, but won’t specify which ones.
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The biggest obstacle to producing a radioactive battery isn’t the technology, notes Megregany.
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I will try to get some photographs on here, but I may be a little late with them.

Speaking of photos, I got new batteries for my camera.  Now I can take more photos for this blog!  I am so happy!

The batteries are Maxell alkaline AA batteries.  1.5 volts.  If that matters.

Have you ever heard of the book called Keeping Chickens?  Here is a link to the Amazon.ca page for it: Keeping Chickens.

This is making me think about the website called My Pet Chicken.  It’s all about chickens.  They even sell chickens and chicken-themed gifts and whatnot.  Oh, and have I mentioned that I like the Rhode Island Red breed of chicken?  This is the My Pet Chicken page about it: Rhode Island Red.

I would show you my photographs of my Mario and Luigi, but the USB cable isn’t here, so I can’t get them onto the computer.  But I want to tell you this amusing bit of thought: the photos look like the line-up photos.  You know, when the line of people stand facing forward for a photo, then they turn sideways for another?  Anyway, I found that funny.

Well, this post, besides being on the wrong day, is long enough.  See you tomorrow!

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Now, let me tell you about my family. I am one of 5 children and I am the oldest. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Honestly, I couldn’t imagine not having my siblings and truthfully would be lost without them. (Most especially my oldest brother, who is our notorious family peacemaker). All of us laugh, we fight, we are all loud, animated, out spoken and yes sometimes crazy. With my family, it seems like there is always some kind of drama going on. As sad as this might seem, to me, this is normal. I guess in a way it’s a good thing. I am very hard to surprise and can easily adapt to any situation. When you come from a large family, you learn the art of compromise very early on. It’s a survival skill. We all model our parents in certain ways. My father is very animated, social, strong willed and successful. My mother is very ladylike, organized, poised and has an uncanny way of getting you to agree to do things you don’t want to do. I got social from dad and organized (I like to refer to it as OCD) from mom. (I guess you can’t pick what you get?)

After our infamous meal, our discussions always turn to the big “Black Friday” sales and talk about our next big holiday celebration. I have been thinking about what would be the best gift to get my many siblings. I know many families have customs of picking names or only buy for the children but it has always been our family tradition to buy for all. Besides, you have a year to get it done (LOL).

Our tradition is whatever you buy one sibling; you buy for all your siblings. (This stems from our childhood when my father insisted that we all get the same thing to be fare- I’m not kidding) So, to follow that taught ritual, we buy non-gender specific items and give the same thing to each one of our siblings. (Yes, I know it’s odd)

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Yesterday afternoon we had to stop at the auto parts store to pick up a new battery for Shelia the Elantra.  Colder morning she takes a little extra “umph” to turn over.  I’d rather spend the money and time now getting a new battery when it’s not as frigid as will be in a few months.  I’m responsable like that.  Plus I panick, break into a cold sweat, cry, and poop myself a little when a car doesn’t start right away.   

We went to O’Reilly because the Auto-zone down the road chocked full of wannabe hot rod builders who haven’t excepted they aren’t going to be the next Jack Roush.  We’ve had problems with that Auto-zone in the past and now avoid their  pissy ”I know everything because I rebuild a 85′ bronco in my mom’s garage” attitude by going a quart mile down the road to O’Reilly’s Auto.  If you have one of them in your area check them out. 

Melissa has had great luck when we were having problems last winter with Storm Shadow (our 96′ Bonneville we previously owned) of going there and they’d show her how to fix various things.  She’s great at playing the ditsy woman who doesn’t know a thing about things automotive…..even though she knows more about cars than most guys out there. 

We pulled up and she said “You know, I probably won’t get as great service with you with me.  I won’t be able to flirt to get a better deal.”

She had a point so I waited in the car as she went into to broker a new battery.  As  I sat alone in the car waiting for her to sweet talk an unsuspecting auto parts worker and watching other customers who knew what they were doing there a few thoughts popped into my mind.

• There is no shame waiting in the car as you wife plays stupid to get better service
• You can’t go to an auto parts store if your car is newer than 2004.  If you need washer fluid or anti freeze best just go to the dealership because a part stores won’t let you in the parking lot.
• Instead of handicapped parking spots Auto Parts stores have spaces reserved for mid 90’s Camaro.  If you’re blasting White Snake you get valet parking 
• The ratio of rust to ghetto-ness is proportionate to the ratio of stickers to crapy-ness of the factory radio.
• Quiz time:  Fuzzy dice aren’t cool if a)you’re driving a Oldsmobile Alero  b) they’re blue neon fuzzy dice  c)your over 21 d) almost get t-boned pulling out because you can’t see other cars due to said fuzzy dice  e)wearing la gear high top sneakers f) all of the above
• It’s hard to look manly with the Auto parts store guy comes out to install the new battery and sees you sleeping like a baby in the front seat. 
• There’s a little crack between the dash and open hood where you can see through.  When the auto parts guy bend over to unhook the old battery and makes eye contact it’s very awkward.
• The smaller in size you are the farther you need to have the seat back.  Can’t be “hollering at no beotches” with a drivers seat reclined to the proper angle.  I swear I saw a 16 year old who was 4 foot tall, 110lbs driving from the trunk. 
• When a battery is hooked it resets the car’s electronics even if the car isn’t on.  This may cause the CD to eject from the stereo.  I am the only one who thinks this is amazing feat of automotive engineering.  Even your wife will look embarrassed when you yell “Look, Sheila barfed up the CD” from inside the car.
• Sweat pants are fine to wear as long as your truck has at least one different color door than the body.  The multi colored paint job may be substituted for a missing window repaired with a garbage bag and duct tape.

In the end we got a new battery and I learned a little bit more about life.

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Hey Pet Society fans! Another week is here with plenty of new items filling the stores, so sign on to Pet Society via Facebook now to explore! Remember that any items labelled This Week’s Special (TWS) or Thanksgiving Special (TS) will be in store until midnight GMT on Monday the 30^th of November, 2009, but may be available again at some point in the future.

It’s all up, up, up from here in the Luxury Store, with a choice of dramatic, traditional and pretty-in-pink new stair cases to suit every style!

Gothic Mansion Stair Case	Oak Mansion Stair Case

Princess Mansion Stair Case (TWS)

Give your home a country feel with everything from Chestnuts, a Birdhouse, a home-warming Fireplace and classic Chests, to the new Kingston and Amelia collections in the Furniture Store!

Chestnut Plushie (TWS)	Cute Bottle Decor	Chestnut Artwork

Cute Wooden Chest	Country Birdhouse Decor	Cute Pink Wooden Chest (TWS)

Kingston Bookcase	Kingston Chest of Drawers

Kingston Low Bookcase	Classic White Fireplace

Amelia White Bench (TWS)	Amelia White Chair (TWS)

Amelia Writing Desk (TWS)

The Mansion Chandelier in the Gadget Store will convert your humble country dwelling into something else, so light up your rooms with pride!

Mansion Chandelier

To complete your home’s rustic feel, lay some Walnut Wood Floor and put up the new Maple Wallpaper, which are now available in the D.I.Y. Depot!

Walnut Wood Floor

Maple Wallpaper

Some pets have been growing delicious chestnuts in their garden for a few weeks now, well it has just come to light that Truffles has also been joining the chestnut growing craze. But not only that, he’s whipped up some delicious treats with them! So head to the Food Store to taste the delectable Mont Blanc Cake and Chestnut Pancakes that Truffles is now selling!

Mont Blanc Cake (TS)	Chestnut Pancakes (TS)

Lily is all about the cuteness factor this week, with an adorable new Fairy outfit and a pretty new Maid outfit in the Clothes Store!

Cute Fairy Wig	Cute Fairy Headband

Cute Fairy Dress	Cute Fairy Wings	Cute Fairy Shoes

Cute Maid Headpiece (TWS)	Cute Maid Dress (TWS)	Cute Maid Shoes (TWS)

If you are a bird lover, you need to check out the new Robin Nest Hat in the Cash Shop. You can wear your very own bird’s nest on your pet’s head, and it will evolve over time!

And finally, new to the Furniture and Gadget Stores this week is the Large Battery which will last for 7 days, so if you are going away for a week, and would like to have your Nannybot look after your pet the entire time, this is the battery for you!

Robin Nest Hat	Large Battery (PF-Cash)

Please note that this update is for Facebook only, and that MySpace is still subject to the MySpace Rewind. MySpace and Bebo will have items from Once upon a time… in stores this week!

The way GeekTool works is you put modules (called Geeklets) on your desktop, give it some code, a refresh rate, and it shows whatever you told it to. You can place it anywhere you want, make it any colour you want, and any size you want. The design possibilities are endless.

Desktop using GeekTool

This is what my desktop looks like, and it updates in real time to show me the time, date, battery percentage left, weather, and upcoming months.

So how can you do this? First you need to download GeekTool. Once you have it installed you just need to go to System Preferences>Geek Tool and you’re all set to start adding Geeklets.

Grab the shell Geeklet and drag it onto your desktop. There should be a properties window open with a whole bunch of fields that you can modify. The one we’re looking for is command. This is where you’ll be entering your code.

Date


Command: date +%d
Refresh rate: 300s

Using a capital D will display the date in Month/Day/Year format.

Month


Command: date +%B
Refresh Rate: 1800s

Using a lowercase B will show the abbreviated month (Nov)

Day of the Week

Command: date +%A
Refresh Time: 1800s

Using a lowercase A will show the abbreviated day (Sat)

Weather


Command: 

curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CITYDATA&u=c" |
grep -E '(CurrentConditions:|C<BR)'
| sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//'
-e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's///' -e 's/<\/description>//'

Refresh Time: 1800s

This code is going to change based on your location. First what you have to do is go to Yahoo Weather and search for your city.
Once you've found your city in the link you'll find a code for your city. For example mine is CAXX0343.
You need to replace CITYDATA with this code for this to work.

To get it to work in fahrenheit there are two things you're going to have to do.

You're still going to use the same CITYDATA code but you're the end of the url where it says u=c you're going to switch it to u=f
Next, where it says CurrentConditions:|C you're going to have to change the C to F. 

Month (with current day highlighted)


Command: cal=`cal`; today=`date "+%e"`; echo "${cal/${today}/33[;30m${today}33[0m}";
Refresh Time: 1800s

Near the end of the line of code it says 30m$. You can change 30 to any number from 30-37 and it will change the colour of the highlighted day.
30 - Black
31 - Red
32 - Green
33 - Yellow
34 - Blue
35 - Pink
36 - Cyan
37 - White

Upcoming months


Command: 

#!/bin/sh
month=`date +%m`
year=`date +%Y`

nextMonth=$(($month+1))
if [[ $nextMonth -gt 12 ]]
then
 nextMonth=1
 year=$(($year+1))
fi
cal $nextMonth $year

nextMonth=$(($month+2))
if [[ $nextMonth -gt 12 ]]
then
 nextMonth=1
 year=$(($year+1))
fi
cal $nextMonth $year

Refresh Time: 1800s

I tried breaking the code up into sections so it makes sense to add or remove months.
The first section is just setting it up.
The second section displays the next month.
The third section displays two months ahead.

Time


Command: date '+%l:%M'
Refresh Time: 1s

If you change the l to I it will show the hours as 02 instead of just 2.
You can add :%S before the ' to add seconds.
Also, %p will show whether it is am or pm.

Battery


Command:

#!/bin/bash
asbreg=`ioreg -rc "AppleSmartBattery"`
maxcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/MaxCapacity/{print $3}'`;
curcap=`echo "${asbreg}" | awk '/CurrentCapacity/{print $3}'`;
prcnt=`echo "scale=2; 100*$curcap/$maxcap" | bc`;
printf "%1.0f%%" ${prcnt};
#EOF

Refresh Time: 60s

There are obviously way more things you can do with GeekTool. These are a few of the common things I found by doing some simple searching. Enjoy!

How often do you change the batteries in your television remote control?  Yeah, basically never. But that’s a tribute to how efficient the device is and not a reason to overlook this development. NEC is showing off a remote control that uses no batteries. Power is generated using the piezo effect that occurs when a button is pushed. That is to say, when a crystal is compressed it emits a tiny bit of electricity which is harnessed and used to power this device. This is the same principle that is used in the electricity producing sidewalks tested in Japan.

It’s pretty phenomenal that they can run the device using this method. Right now there’s only a handful of buttons but we’re sure there’ll be advances in the technology. There’s a ton of use for this if it can be miniaturized. It is using radio frequency instead of infrared, making it a useful development in wireless doorbells, garage door openers, key-less entry fobs for your car, and many more applications.

[Thanks das_coach]

I manage to get Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson to sit for a portrait session and I’m thrilled. We’re in the woods, and I have beautiful light and mise en scene. I set them up, but when I try to take pictures, I discover that my camera doesn’t have a battery or a memory card. I run back to the Times, asking Jeff and Hiroko if I can borrow one of theirs, frantically trying to find one, but no one has one. Lou and Laurie are trying to be patient with me, but their patience is wearing thin. I’m mortified.
Soundtrack: Laurie Anderson, “The Island Where I Come From”

The guys at Project Wolf Dragon have been kind enough to send me one of their new PCB Lite Lipo Voltage Monitors to review and test. What’s it do? It checks the voltage of your lipo while in use, and alerts the user before an the battery drops below the 3v per cell threshold (saving your battery from sure doom). How does it work? How well does it work? Why should I buy one? Well, hop on over to the review and check it out for yourself!

Review:
Project WolfDragon LiPo PCB Voltage Monitor

Link:
Project WolfDragon

Nikon D300s Digital SLR Camera + MB-D10 Grip + EN-EL3e Battery + Cameta Bonus Accessory Kit Review

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Kit includes:
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The easy-to-use DX-format D300s offers outstanding image quality, multi-functional technologies and 720p HD Video Recording capability. With 12.3 megapixel resolution, speedy 7 fps frame advance, dual CF/SD memory card slots, self-cleaning sensor unit and high definition 3″ VGA LCD display, the D300s is a breakthrough solution for photographers searching for an advanced compact SLR. Packed with the latest technologies and Nikon’s renowned ergonomics, the D300s is ideal for professionals on a budget.

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How often do we charge our notebook battery?

• Everyday? When battery flat? or Partial flat?

Of course, the next question is how long will the battery last?

• 1 year? 2 year? or lifetime?

Hee hee… most of the time the battery last about 2 years… that is base on my experience. This is about 500 charge. Of course, it also depends on your battery life span.

As long as there is electrical supply to the battery, it is consider as charging. Even the charge is for 1 second.

Nowadays, the design of battery has improved, you can do many partial charge. However, I will let my notebook battery go almost flat and do a full charge once in awhile. And when you are using electrical supply, unplug the battery.

Hope the above gives you better clarity of your notebook battery charging… similar to handphone battery too.