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An extremely interesting (awesome and beautiful) video animation was made of "The Inner Life Of A Cell" , which gives an intuitive
(non-intellectual) experience of life inside the cell. It's to music, is artistic, and has almost a mystic quality. It reminds me of the old movie "incredible journey", where the crew of a submarine gets shrunk and injected into a person's blood stream, except here you get injected into an even smaller domain, to the inside of a cell.
I view these and am awestruck, seeing how this video presents the mechanisms nature has invented to make life are just physical things
interacting almost like tinker toys. Sure they're smaller and they are bound together with different rules, but one could almost imagine making a cell out of tinker toys!
So if you are curious about the science of what's represented, then the full version is for you. It shows many of the relevant cellular mechanisms of how white blood cells slowly roll down blood vessels, and wind up at places needed for healing. It shows skeletons of actin giving the cell shape, motor proteins dragging packages along them between the nucleus, cell wall, and mitochondria, DNA transcription of protein, cell wall proteins, and more. Also on youtube are very interesting micro-movies of just cell motion and shape changed by actin tubules inside cells. Check out:
1. Crawling Amoeba
2. cell migration (of the mold)
3. Chemotaxis (attraction of cells to chemicals released at the end of a needle) (zoomed out) (zoomed in)
Submitted by Stan Hutchings (from a posting on the Nanotechnology Study Group NSG)
Dual boot Windows XP and Windows Vista to run happily on the same machine. It's quite easy to do.
1 - partition your drives into at least two, and more if desired, with gparted (why? well, because it's free! ). Make sure the partitions are both master partitions.
2 - install xp on one partition
3 - install vista on another partition
A much more detailed article from Tech Republic is here.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Besides our Bay Area classical radio station KDFC 102.1 FM, you can find many more by googling classical music online radio free.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Samsung announces 64GB solid state drive - a 1.8-inch 64GB solid state drive (SSD) flash drive.
The terabyte network attached storage (NAS) has arrived - the Hammer Myshare, priced at $499, is available now at retail stores (Fry's, Staples), online retailers (NewEgg, PC Connection, etc), and directly from the Hammer Storage Web site. A 2-terabyte model is due in August.
www.hammer-storage.com/products/myshare.asp
If you've only got $399 to blow, 1TB can still be yours, with Hitachi saying Deskstar 7K1000 shipments have reached "critical mass" this month. If you need one terabyte of data, in a 3.5-inch enclosure, spinning at 7,200 RPM and hooked up to your computer / RAID / iPod, you can quit your drooling and buy, buy, buy!
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
But you can add HyperTerminal to Vista, if you need it. The application was created by Hilgraeve, and is still available. You can download HyperTerminal Private Edition at the company's Web site.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Check out the National Consumers League's 2007 Scam-Free Calendar. It has tips on avoiding everything from identity theft to traveling sales crews to telemarketing scams. The tip for March 2007: Use Money Transfer Services Wisely, sponsored by Western Union, "Since these services offer the recipient cash fast, often within minutes, the fraud victims who send them the money may not realize their mistake before the scammer gets away. The rule of thumb is that if you don’t know the person you’re sending money to, then don’t send it via a money transfer service."
Submitted by Stan Hutchings from an article in TRACNotes (Telecommunications Research and Action Center, www.trac.org; you can sign up for the TRACNotes free newsletter at http://tracweb.org/trac/join.html?r=XdzuYLY1sAyfE
AppScout is brought to you by the editors and analysts of PC Magazine, who scour the world in search of the best software, sites, and Web apps. We’re reporting on it all: the killer apps, the crazy startups, the useful (or just gimmicky) Web sites, and the beta software that crashes
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Five Free Internet Tools: for a better Web experience: RSS and blog readers, the latest Eudora, and an open-source spam filter for Outlook.
Visit the collection page
Bloglines Browser Plug-In: add new feed subscriptions to your personalized Bloglines feed bookmark page instead of to IE's Favorites center.
Visit the Bloglines Browser Plug-In page
BWiZZ News Reader: this news reader will enable you to back up (and restore) your feed list to (and from) an online server.
Visit the WiZZ News Reader page
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
I downloaded the software from tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm and click in the desktop icon frequently. It keeps my computer accurate within one second. I assume this will work properly on Sunday after time changes.
Submitted by Frank Kiss
Or have a look at: oneguycoding.com/automachron and his program achron5.exe. Just install this and it takes care of itself on every boot.
Submitted by Robert White
If you do have Windows 2000 or older of the NT series, go to this URL and follow the quite simple instructions. The program is quite simple to operate to modify the registry properly.
There are also patches to Office to make further necessary changes.
Submitted by Jim Dinkey
Takeaway: If you're running low on hard disk space, and just need somewhere to store nonessential files, or if you have a need to access your files from different computers in different locations, these services are a welcomed relief. Other key reasons to use them are to share documents with others around the web and to back up those precious memories stored in media files against the possibility of a local disk crash. And if you don't have a huge library of files, the free space of at least 1GB offered by all these services won't cost you a dime. Read the whole article, with comparisons and reviews of each storage option at www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2098950,00.asp
Submitted by Stan Hutchings