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Tumblecloud Is a Drag-and-Drop, Collaborative Multimedia Slideshow Tool - 1 views

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    Tumblecloud is a new platform for piecing together music, videos, photos, and also websites into dynamic slideshows that you can share with others. Currently in beta, the free webapp can be used for "collaborative digital storytelling," as the founders describe it, for business or personal purposes.
Matt Warren

Treehouse Is an Elegant, Focused Online Learning Resource for Aspiring Designers and De... - 1 views

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    If you're looking to learn some new development or design skills, Treehouse can teach your the core knowledge you need. The site offers a focused look at the basics of object oriented programming, the principals of good design, and how to make an iPhone app.
Matt Warren

Screencast-O-Matic - 0 views

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    "Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux."
Matt Warren

18 Best Rainmeter 3.0 Themes and Skins - 0 views

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    "Rainmeter is the ultimate desktop enhancement application. With over thousands of skins available, one can style their desktop as they want to. I generally use it to monitor my gmail account, browse through RSS feeds, quickly launch apps and save notes (which is snyc-ed with Kunal using Dropbox, so we can collaborate together on posts efficiently)."
Matt Warren

How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP - 0 views

  • Method 2: Disable the automatic search for network printers and folders by changing the registry key

    To change the registry key to disable automatic search for network printers and folders , follow these steps:
    1. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
    2. Locate the following registry subkey:
      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
    3. Right-click System, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
    4. Type NoNetCrawling, and then press ENTER.
    5. Double-click NoNetCrawling.
    6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
    7. Close Registry Editor.
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    This step-by-step article describes how to disable the automatic search function for network printers and folders in Microsoft Windows XP.
Matt Warren

A's from Zzzz's? The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the Academic Achievement of ... - 0 views

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    "Recent sleep research finds that many adolescents are sleep-deprived because of both early school start times and changing sleep patterns during the teen years. This study identifies the causal effect of school start time on academic achievement by using two policy changes in the daily schedule at the US Air Force Academy along with the randomized placement of freshman students to courses and instructors. Results show that starting the school day 50 minutes later has a significant positive effect on student achievement, which is roughly equivalent to raising teacher quality by one standard deviation."
Matt Warren

papercrop - 0 views

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    "Papercrop is free, simple utility that automatically restructures PDF files to fit more comfortably on small smartphone and eBook reader screens." Thanks to Lifehacker for the pointer: http://ow.ly/5Sz12 
Matt Warren

WebPutty - 0 views

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    Simple, fast, and powerful CSS editing and hosting. "WebPutty gives you a syntax-highlighting CSS editor you can use from anywhere, the power of SCSS and Compass, a side-by-side preview pane, and instant publishing with minification, compression, and automatic cache control."
Matt Warren

How your immune system fires off electrons to repair DNA damage - 0 views

  • One regular offender is the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer. It's a bulbous ring attached to the elegant double helix of the DNA strand. It latches on to the damaged parts of DNA and is replicated along with them, causing widespread damage. Once it gets started, it can grow until it takes over the system.
  • Fortunately, help is on the way, in the form of an enzyme called photolyase.
  • Photolyase floats around the body, looking for encroachment from the dark side. This enzyme powers itself up using blue light, and then shoots out an electron.
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  • Homegrown resistance speeds it along its way. A molecule in the ring allows the electron to move faster along the ring than it could by hoping through the gap in the middle.
  • The whole process takes less than a hundred trillionths of a second, and when the photolyase hits all the right spots with its electron, the ring is blasted away and the DNA repairs itself to form a perfect strand.
  • Photolyase runs through fish and reptilian systems, but is unknown in mammals. Scientists are now trying to find a way to synthesize and mass-produce this enzyme, so that one day we might be able to repair our DNA with a simple lotion.
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    Scientists have found out how a famous sunburn-healing enzyme works. The way it zaps DNA damage sounds so science fictional that it seems like something that happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Matt Warren

Graduate students: Aspirations and anxieties - 0 views

  • About 5,000 graduate students from dozens of countries responded to the survey, which Nature publicized through its e-mail lists and website, the Naturejobs.com newsletter and social media. Respondents hailed from a variety of scientific fields, but the basic biological sciences were most heavily represented.
  • Across all disciplines, PhD students became less pleased with their experience as their degrees progressed. Of first-year students who responded to the survey, 76% were “satisfied” or “very satisfied”; that decreased to 66.8% for second-years and 61.3% for third-years, although the numbers varied with region (see 'Continental divide').
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    Life as a graduate student can mean hours of daily toil, little social contact and no guarantee that all that work will lead to a job. But it can also offer intellectual stimulation, independent projects that nurture a love of discovery and the development of a skill set that opens a host of science-related opportunities for a budding scientist.
Matt Warren

How I Cut My Energy Bill By a Third with Tech and Common Sense - 0 views

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    Last month my electric bill was $300. That was ridiculous. Something had to be done. By using gadgets, common sense, and a constant awareness of power consumption, I've made changes that will cut my power bill by at least a third. And that's not just temporarily-that's forever. And, I'm doing it without really sacrificing anything.
Matt Warren

How to create a recurring e-mail message in Outlook - 0 views

  • Outlook does not provide a means to create recurring e-mail messages.
    1. Publish a custom task form that creates an e-mail message when the task status equals completed.
    2. Use the custom task form to create a recurring task.
    3. When the task comes due, mark it as completed. The code will generate the boilerplate message, which you then send. At the same time, a new task is created because the original task was set to recur.
  • Publish a Custom Task Form
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    "This article describes a method for creating a recurring reminder e-mail message."
Matt Warren

World map of useless stereotypes - 0 views

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    World map of useless stereotypes
Matt Warren

Scientists find 'better way' to grow adult stem cells - 0 views

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    "A new plastic surface which overcomes the difficulties associated with growing adult stem cells has been developed, according to scientists."
Matt Warren

Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer's Boot Time - 0 views

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    If there's one thing everyone dreads, it's rebooting their computer. It may only take a minute or two, but it can seem like forever. Here are our top 10 tweaks that'll make your computer boot a little faster.
Matt Warren

Removing ICC Profiles - 0 views

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    Used when helping Dr. Stone generate graphics (in the appropriate format) for a journal.
Matt Warren

Using Slideshare to Sync Audio with Powerpoint - 0 views

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    When I started developing material for this month's newsletter, How to Use Google Analytics, I knew that I wanted to include some kind of multimedia presentation showing our own analytics account as an example. I thought about using various screen capture tools to create a video, but I wanted to make sure that the analytics screens were a bit clearer and the size could be easily enlarged. At some point, Able asked our LinkedIn group about SlideShare, which prompted me to check it out. It ended up being just what I was looking for. SlideShare allows you to upload a PowerPoint presentation (I actually used Google's version) and then sync it to an audio file, which I created using my built-in microphone and Garage Band on my mac. SlideShare doesn't let you host the audio file on their servers, but they recommended Archive.org. I was able to quickly upload a 25MB file there and then have SlideShare stream it. Cool, right?
Matt Warren

Human Blood: Blood Components - 0 views

  • 7-8% of human body weight is from blood.
  • maintaining a relatively constant body temperature
  • a highly specialized tissue
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  • Four of the most important ones are red cells, white cells, platelets, and plasma
  • Red cells, or erythrocytes click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced, are relatively large microscopic cells without nuclei.
  • Red cells normally make up 40-50% of the total blood volume.
  • red cells are produced continuously in our bone marrow from stem cells at a rate of about 2-3 million cells per second.
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      This is amazing to think of. Our bones aren't lifeless; they're geyesers of red-blood cells?
  • Hemoglobin click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced is the gas transporting protein molecule that makes up 95% of a red cell. 
  • White cells, or leukocytes click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced, exist in variable numbers and types but make up a very small part of blood's volume--normally only about 1% in healthy people. 
  • not limited to blood.
  • spleen, liver, and lymph glands
  • Others are produced in the thymus gland
  • first responders for our immune system
  • plays a vital role in our immune system
  • Red cells remain viable for only about 4 months before they are removed from the blood
  • Individual white cells usually only last 18-36 hours
  • Platelets click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced, or thrombocytes click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced, are cell fragments without nuclei that work with blood clotting chemicals at the site of wounds.
  • platelets stimulate the immune system.  Individual platelets are about 1/3 the size of red cells. 
  • Plasma click this icon to hear the preceding term pronounced is the relatively clear, yellow tinted water (92+%), sugar, fat, protein and salt solution which carries the red cells, white cells, platelets, and some other chemicals.
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    Some basic information about human blood
Matt Warren

HideIt - Hide all your Windows - 0 views

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    Thanks to Lifehacker for the pointer
    (http://lifehacker.com/5813244/hideit-minimizes-any-app-to-your-windows-system-tray)

    "Alan Henry - Windows: If you're tired of a taskbar cluttered with applications that you need to have open but can't be properly hidden or minimized, HideIt allows you to minimize any application to your Windows system tray by right-clicking its minimize button.

    HideIt is similar to some other apps we've discussed in the past, like Trayconizer and RBTray, but is actively developed and unlike the others, was built for Windows 7. If you right-click the minimize button on any open window, you'll see the option to minimize the window to the system tray instead of the taskbar.

    Similarly, if you right-click the HideIt icon in the task bar, you can select which windows or applications to restore, or restore everything at once. Best of all, it's completely free."
Matt Warren

Make a Transparent Dry Erase Board for less than $6 - 0 views

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    This is a very cool tip from Lifehacker reader David Dean: The next time you find yourself in sore need of a dry erase board that isn't one of the two boring white models in all the stores around town, hit up a supply store like Lowes and get yourself a sheet of Lexan. It costs less than $4, and you can put it just about anywhere since it's transparent.
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