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SingleCrystal is an elegant, easy-to-use program for visualizing and
understanding diffraction patterns from single crystals.
SingleCrystal lets you simulate simulation electron diffraction patterns and reciprocal lattice
sections - which can be compared directly with observed data. The program also lets you display
stereographic projections of planes, traces, zones and zone axes. You can rotate crystals with
the mouse, or tilt controls, and observe how the diffraction pattern changes. Screen tools allow
easy measurement and indexing of reflexions, as well as the display of phase information for
scattered beams.
SingleCrystal is designed to work with CrystalMaker, allowing users to visualize crystal
structures then with a single menu command, display the diffraction pattern in SingleCrystal. The
program can also be used as a stand-alone application, reading from CrystalMaker "crystal" files.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.0.0: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
You will need CrystalMaker if you
wish to simulate diffraction patterns from your own structures.
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Oubliez Foursquare, oubliez Twitter, le vrai réseau social temps réel avec
géolocalisation c’est le GPS (et ce ne sont pas les utilisateurs de Coyote
qui me contradiront). De surcroît, voilà un outil avec une réelle
utilité et un modèle économique.
Un vrai rêve de startuper, quoi.
Bon d’accord je force un peu le trait, mais la nouvelle version de l’application de
GPS CoPilot Live 8 pour iPhone (déjà chroniqué ici),
qui a mis du social dans son moteur, m’y incite fortement.
CoPilot Live 8, entre autres nouveautés plus classiques, offre une nouvelle fonction que
l’on n’a pas l’habitude de voir sur un GPS (ou pas à ma connaissance en
tout cas) : la possibilité de mettre à jour son statut Facebook à
partir de son GPS. Vous pouvez ainsi partager vos trajets avec vos amis grâce
à des mises à jour de votre statut Facebook directement depuis l’application.
Ainsi ces derniers pourront non seulement savoir où vous êtes mais également
savoir quelle chanson vous êtes en train d’écouter. Vous pouvez poster votre
statut manuellement ou automatiquement (gaffe quand même car la maréchaussée
va pouvoir aussi vous suivre à la trace et vous attendre au péage si vous avez fait
Paris-Lyon en deux heures trente et que Facebook le crie sur les toits. Gaffe aussi à ce
que vous écoutez comme musique, histoire de ne pas griller votre crédibilité
définitivement).
Parmi les autres nouveautés de la de CoPilot Live 8 on notera également
l’intégration de la recherche locale par Internet, avec laquelle le conducteur un
peu perdu trouvera plus facilement ce qu’il recherche dans son environnement proche, que ce
soit un produit, un service, une marque, magasin ou toute autre chose.
Alord, le GPS comme nouveau vecteur de socialisation dans la statusphère ? Pourquoi pas
après tout. N’a-t-on pas dit à une époque que Twitter était la
nouvelle CB ? Roger tu me copies 10 sur 10 ?
Sandboxie allows you to run your browser, or any other program, so that all changes that result
from the usage are kept in a sandbox environment, which can then be deleted later. This allows
you to remove traces of your Internet or PC activities, as well as reverse any changes to your
Favorites, home page, registry and more. Even files that were downloaded during a sandbox session
will be wiped after the sandbox is cleared. The program runs in the system tray and if you want
to start a sandboxed session, simply launch your browser, or any other program via the tray icon,
rather than the regular way.
Abolished method of execution associated with the French revolution is displayed at the
Musée D'Orsay in Paris
Beneath the grey veil used to cloak her awful secrets from the public gaze, "the widow" stands
14ft tall and the blade hangs menacingly over a hole designed for a neck. "One can have a certain
indifference on the death penalty," read Victor Hugo's famous words nearby, "as long as one has
not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes."
When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the
instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands. But today, at the request of the
crusading abolitionist who consigned it to history, one of the last guillotines in France was put
on display for all the world to see.
For Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who succeeded in outlawing the death penalty
during the first year of François Mitterrand's presidency, its appearance at a new
exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is a reason to celebrate.
"The guillotine, this instrument of death, has become the object of a museum," the Socialist
senator told Le Monde this week. "What a symbol and what a victory for the supporters of
abolition!"
Badinter, who as a young lawyer witnessed the guillotine "slicing the neck" of a 27-year-old
client, Roger Bontems, in La Santé prison in 1972, refers to the machine as his "old
enemy". What was chosen as the official execution method by the revolutionaries of 1792 continued
in France until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was guillotined at Baumettes prison in Marseille
after being convicted on charges of torture, murder and rape.
In 1981, Badinter, who wrote in his book L'Abolition that seeing executions for himself had
turned him into a hard-core opponent of the death penalty, said that a period of time
– "not shorter than 25 years" – should elapse before the
so-called louisette was seen in public again.
Now, the contraption – in this case a model designed by Léon Alphonse
Berger in 1872 – is on show at the entrance of a new exhibition entitled Crime
et Châtiment (Crime and Punishment) which runs until the end of June.
According to Badinter, it is the last intact guillotine in mainland France. Two others, both from
overseas territories, are housed in the National Prisons Museum in Fontainebleau.
The guillotine's resurrection, thanks to a nationwide search by Badinter and curator Jean Clair
who tracked it down in a military bunker in Ecouen, north of Paris, is a fitting contribution to
an exhibition full of severed heads, murders and madness.
With more than 450 works, including sculptures by Rodin and paintings by Degas, David and Munch,
the museum has sought to use art to trace attitudes to crime, punishment and rehabilitation from
the first bloodthirsty days of the revolution.
Clair has pointed out that when it was suggested by Joseph Ignace Guillotin in 1789, the idea of
making mechanical decapitation the uniform means of France's execution stemmed not from barbarity
but from a desire to make death as quick and painless as possible for the victim, whether a
prince or a pauper.
Hanging and hacking with hatchets were considered woefully inefficient.
"This machine was created out of humanist concerns as the least painful and most egalitarian
means of death," Clair told Le Figaro, adding: "Its precision and ease of use also made it the
starting point for mass industrial murders."
As debate swirls in contemporary France over reoffending rates, police powers and the pitiful
state of overcrowded prisons, the exhibition has a particular relevance.
One visitor, retired teacher Michèle Robelin, expressed surprise, however, that it did not
address more pressing issues.
"I think it's a shame this stops at 1981," she said, referring to a timeline of the criminal
justice system in France. "Thirty years have passed since then and the state of our prisons is
dreadful. They have just swept it under the carpet."
Transaction security firm Trusteer has launched a remote forensics service designed to allow
banks to diagnose if a client's PC has been infected with malware following incidents of
suspected fraud....
The Wall Street Journal and
National Public Radio (NPR) will be launching custom-built iPad-only websites next month when the
new Apple slate computer known as the iPad is made available for sale. Both sites will
automatically detect when web surfers arrive via an iPad device and will then show those visitors
a special version of the site, customized exclusively for the iPad. How exactly will these sites
compare to the web pages regular site visitors see? There's just one difference: they won't
feature any Adobe Flash technology.
Sponsor
NPR's New iPad Site: Entirely Flash Free
According to reports
from MediaMemo,
NPR is removing all traces of Adobe Flash, which powers its website's media and graphics, from
its iPad-only version. Although many news organizations use Flash to display multimedia
presentations and audio and video content, NPR in particular was going to be heavily affected by
Apple's refusal to support Flash on the new iPad devices. That's because a key feature on NPR's
website is its Flash-based audio player, something that's featured on nearly every webpage
site-wide.
Kinsey Wilson, senior vice president and general manager of NPR Digital Media, recently told
Poynter that their
developers decided to work around the problem by implementing an HTML5-based player instead.
Wilson also
noted that the company has a "launch sponsor" for the iPad-only site, since it won't be able
to support web ads, which are often coded in Flash.
WSJ: A Flash-Free Front Page
The Wall Street Journal, a News Corp. property, is also building an iPad-only version of their
site - well, actually just an iPad-only front page. Unlike NPR's iPad site, which will be 100%
Flash-free, WSJ visitors who follow links deeper into the website will soon discover that not all
its page have been converted. Here, they'll run into the soon-to-be-infamous "blue box," the
lego-like symbol that appears where a Flash content should have been.
There aren't any demos or mockups of these new websites available, so it's unknown at this time
if they're being changed in other ways to accommodate iPad visitors. That is to say, it's unknown
if they will be exact replicas of the non-iPad versions but just with the Flash content
removed, or if they will perhaps sport an entirely new design.
Start of a New Trend?
With these two leading media companies making this sort of change, it's reasonable to imagine
that others will soon follow. And while iPad owners will certainly appreciate the adjustments -
that blue lego is such an eyesore, after all - the need for so many custom versions of the same
site may become a burden on businesses who need to reach a wide audience.
Today, companies are already tasked with creating a traditional website, a mobile website and
sometimes a customized mobile website designed just for iPhone visitors. Now there's the
iPad-only website to code for and soon there may be another one, too. Recent
news reports state that Amazon is working on a new web browser just for their Kindle
e-Reader. Will that be yet another website needing its own custom version?
So Many Versions of the Same Site!
It's bad enough that the mobile application ecosystem itself is so fragmented - developers have
several platforms to code for from the iPhone to Android, plus Palm, Windows Mobile - including
the new Windows Phone 7 Series, Symbian and Blackberry, to name a few. Now it seems they'll have
a number of unique mobile devices to support as well?
The web was supposed to be the one unifying "platform" that works anywhere, on any device, no
matter what hardware is used to access it. But thanks to varying screen sizes and differing
feature sets (most notably Apple's refusal to allow Flash on their mobile devices), those who
want to provide compelling content to all their site visitors will be forced to re-code
their site multiple times. Publishers without the resources to do so will have to make a tough
choice - remove the unsupported content and the media that makes it slow to load on mobile
devices entirely? Or leave it be and risk losing their mobile audience instead? That's a
"Sophie's Choice" no one wants to make. Unfortunately, in a down economy where money is tight,
that may be just what happens.
Losing a friend or family member is painful enough, but imagine the extra, unnecessary jabs when
that friend's social networking profile continues to pop up in searches. Or say your friend was
particularly wise or witty when posting online, but when you went back to reference something
later, the entire record was gone without a trace.
Today, many of us keep our profiles, blog posts, and musings entirely online, leaving family,
friends, and service providers stuck trying to figure out what to do with a deceased user's
digital bits.
I have a personal interest in this topic, as I'm of a generation that largely grew up with the
Internet while our parents largely remain uninvolved (mine are surprisingly Internet
literate, but most of my friends' parents aren't). An Ars reader and close friend of mine passed
away in early 2008, and all of his online musings remain in limbo to this day—his MySpace
profile is still active as if he was still around, confusing old high school friends, yet his
blog has mysteriously disappeared and no one will be able to get it back.
This prompted us to start looking into various sites' policies on deceased user accounts and what
you can do about them—whether you want to preserve them, delete them, or otherwise.
Losing a friend or family member is painful enough, but imagine the extra, unnecessary jabs when
that friend's social networking profile continues to pop up in searches. Or say your friend was
particularly wise or witty when posting online, but when you went back to reference something
later, the entire record was gone without a trace.
Today, many of us keep our profiles, blog posts, and musings entirely online, leaving family,
friends, and service providers stuck trying to figure out what to do with a deceased user's
digital bits.
I have a personal interest in this topic, as I'm of a generation that largely grew up with the
Internet while our parents largely remain uninvolved (mine are surprisingly Internet
literate, but most of my friends' parents aren't). An Ars reader and close friend of mine passed
away in early 2008, and all of his online musings remain in limbo to this day—his MySpace
profile is still active as if he was still around, confusing old high school friends, yet his
blog has mysteriously disappeared and no one will be able to get it back.
This prompted us to start looking into various sites' policies on deceased user accounts and what
you can do about them—whether you want to preserve them, delete them, or otherwise.
Rouge, jaune, rose, noir avec du bleu. Rouge, jaune, rose. Noir avec du bleu. C'était une
robe et elle clignotait un peu. La fille qui la portait me parlait d'une guitare magique.
Montreal, octobre 2008. Le festival POP
Montréal, à travers la ville et ses salles. Soirées chargées en
concerts, courir et boire de salles en salles, plan de la ville en main. Les Persuasions, vieux
groupe mythique américain a capella des 60s, est l'affiche du soir.
Fédération ukrainienne blindée, Richie du Fire qui perd contrôle au
milieu de la foule, le groupe qui descend de scène et fait tourner les micros, voix basses
rythmiques et voix hautes mélodiques, le concert qui se termine sur un chant
époustouflant d'une des organisatrices du festival. L'un des plus beaux concerts de nos
vies et l'apothéose de POP Montreal cette année-la.
Mais. Victor m'a pourtant bien dit de ne pas manquer le concert de 23h30 a La Casa Del Popolo.
C'est les Luyas, son nouveau
groupe favori, et les chouchous de la plupart des gens que je croise. La Casa n'est qu'a quelques
blocs, mais c'est déjà trop tard. Au milieu de la foule, Victor me fait signe,
"C'est Jessie !". Cette fille a une robe rouge, jaune, rose. Et elle me parle d'une guitare
magique. Et elle parle sans arrêt.
Reykjavik, novembre 2008. Jessie m'a dit qu'elle serait en ville, pour le festival Airwaves, mais
pas avec ses Luyas, avec Miracle Fortress, le groupe de son pote Graham. Je me retrouve en Islande sur la
trace d'un projet de docu-fiction, Sun (Set & Rise), qui se casse la gueule au fur et a
mesure des journées de repérage. Passer la majeure partie de notre temps a boire,
enchaîner les concerts, boire encore, faire les malins le soir en désespoir du
malaise du jour. Et déjà la dernière nuit, séance de stage diving
pendant le concert de Yelle, dans une salle bondée de jeunes islandais hurlant les paroles
à tue-tête, moment surréaliste. Je me brise le dos, perds toutes mes
affaires, et Jessie qui vient s'écraser sur moi au sol, avant de disparaître dans le
froid, sans même me chanter un petit morceau.
Perpignan, août 2009. La guitare magique dont Jessie me parlait est en fait l'oeuvre de
Yuri Landmann, luthier fou, personnage unique que mon pote Gaspar et moi décidons
d'inviter lors de Guitares au Palais, le festival de Pedro Soler. Autour
de ses instruments, le Malien Sidi Touré déjà croisé a Bamako, les
Hollandais The Moi Non Plus qui sont derrière Subbacultcha à Amsterdam, le vagabond
Noel Akchoté qui improvise avec une facilité déconcertante. Et Jessie Stein,
qui discrètement cette fois emmène de son accent et de son chant doux la nuit un
peu ailleurs. Je la croise rapidement, la tête un peu ailleurs moi aussi.
Montréal, octobre 2009. Un an que j'ai découvert les Luyas et Jessie Stein. Un an
à me repasser les mélodies en tête, à rêver de cette fille a la
voix si particulière. On fait du vélo un soir ensemble et je lui dis "A chaque fois
que je t'entends chanter j'ai l'impression d'être de l'autre côté de
l'océan même si je suis près de toi", et c'est vraiment cette sensation de
nostalgie d'un pays inconnu qui me rend fou d'elle.
On m'a invité de nouveau à POP Montréal pour faire une projection, mais cette année je me suis
aussi proposé de filmer une série avec une sélection de groupes locaux, pour Arte Live Web. Parmi ces groupes, les Luyas donc,
que je voulais filmer depuis si longtemps. On avait bien évoqué que je les rejoigne
dans la neige l'hiver d'avant, mais l'automne après tout se montre bienveillant.
The Luyas, c'est Jessie, Stefan
(le batteur de Bell
Orchestre), Pietro (ancien d'Arcade Fire, et chez Bell Orchestre et Torngat aussi) et Mathieu, qui vient de
rejoindre la troupe plus récemment. Jessie a pour idée d'aller filmer du
côté du pont Jacques Cartier, et sur l'île au milieu du St Laurent. Une
ambiance légère déjà nous accompagne, alors que l'on traverse
Montréal a vélo. J'imaginais Jessie plus tendue pour ce petit film, si souvent
repoussé, mais elle fait au contraire preuve d'un humour de tous les instants, d'une
capacité d'improvisation constante. Bonheur à suivre devant et derrière une
camera.
Réal : Vincent Moon
Tourné à Montreal
Filmer pour rencontrer, enregistrer pour se souvenir. Cette après-midi là reste
comme l'apothéose de nombreux voyages, en quête perpétuelle de sons,
d'expériences un peu différentes. Revoir ces images, et c'est toute une semaine de
rencontres musicales qui revient en tête, comme un rassemblement d'émotions diverses
dans une seule explosion finale. L'ultime chanson de ce film, autour d'un parc pour enfants, est
probablement la séquence que j'ai le plus montré ces derniers mois au cours de mes
voyages - entièrement improvisée, du début a la fin, un pur moment de
génie musical comme jamais je n'en avais filmé. Et cette dernière phrase,
hilarante et qui restera longtemps : "It looks like dirt, but it's death".
New York, février 2010. La nuit s'allonge, Jessie a trop bu et parle sans arrêt.
Elle me prend la main sous la table et je me souviens alors que j'étais tombé
amoureux d'une fille qui parlait de guitare magique, qui jouait de la musique en vous regardant
droit dans les yeux, et qui chantait comme un enfant de l'autre côté de
l'océan. Parfois des rencontres changent des vies.
Héritant de quelques photos et d'un carnet, à la mort de ce père qu'elle n'a
pas connu, Dolor part sur les traces d'un passé lourd de secrets et expliquant pourquoi son
père l'a abandonnée. De l'émotion au rythme du polar : prenant.
Note : 5/6
EA a sorti ce week-end une "version longue" du trailer (déjà montré en
décembre) du prochain Medal Of Honor. Comme il est maintenant disponible sans traces de
pisse Gametrailersiennes, on vous le reco...
It’s a brand new week, which means
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March 15-16, 2010, London, UK: At Social Media World Forum, learn from social networks, brands, advertisers and
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March 19, 2010, London, UK: Justmeans’Social
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March 23, 2010, San Francisco, CA: Swagapalooza is an experiment in viral media. On March 23rd, the world’s
most-followed bloggers, tweeters, and digital influencers will gather to judge five-minute
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March 23, 2010, Sacramento, CA: Northern California Social Media Society Launch
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March 24, 2010, Rutherford, NJ: Learn about how you would grow your business,
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March 24-25, 2010, San Francisco, CA: EyeforTravel’s Social Media Strategies for
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March 25, 2010, Toronto, ON: Join Nick La, creator of the popular blog Web
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March 25-26 2010, Atlanta, GA: REtechSouth: The only event in the Southeast that ties cutting edge social media
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March 29, 2010, Portland OR: The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but
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March 30-April 1, 2010, San Jose, CA: Become Location Enabled at Where 2.0. Now
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April 5, 2010, New York, NY: You need to be a social media specialist.
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April 7, 2010, Cincinnati, OH: BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media features 8 great case studies on the
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April 7, 2010, New York, NY: Attend the Social Media Advertising
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April 7-8, 2010, New York, NY: Strengthen your business with mobile marketing,
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April 7-9, 2010 Sydney, Australia: ConnectNow is a three day event focusing on the intersection of social media,
emerging technologies and enterprise. The first two days is conference, where you’ll learn
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April 8-10, 2010, Atlanta, GA: The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference will
bring together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders, IT innovators, communications gurus,
fundraising superstars and nonprofit staffers from all over. You’ll learn the latest
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April 9, 2010, London, UK: Natural SEO, a thupr
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on site in a relaxed, conversational environment. The event is free, but limited to 100 places.
April 12-15, 2010, Santa Clara, CA: The 6th annual MySQL Conference & Expo,
presented by O’Reilly Media, brings over 2,000 open source and database enthusiasts
together to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL ecosystem. The O’Reilly
MySQL Conference & Expo is a new event that builds on the tradition of past MySQL conferences
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April 12-15, 2010, Washington, DC: Attend the Advanced Learning
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April 12-16, 2010, New York, NY: Attend New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW), a non-profit movement formed around a single
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April 16-17, 2010, Royal Oak, MI: FutureMidwest, the region’s largest two-day technology and knowledge
conference, is aimed at helping professionals successfully add digital strategies to their
communications programs. Technology and online tools have dramatically changed the way we do
business. FutureMidwest will highlight the effect this transition has had on companies. The
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April 16-18, 2010 Montreal, Quebec, Canada: The iPhone Boot Camp offers a three day
workshop on iPhone and iPad Development, covering basic to advanced features such as web
services, database, core location and animation, audio and camera and augmented reality. The
workshops are limited to fifteen developers and is a full 24 hours of training. The iPhone Boot
Camp is a well established certificate training program that has trained over 200 iPhone
developers in dozens of cities since 2008. Our instructors are all developers with several apps
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