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Going From One Cell Type to Another Without Using Stem Cells
It’s been a long time since I’ve shared something for the little scientist in me. The finding was published today in Nature. Researchers over at good ‘ole Harvard have discovered a way to convert one type of cell to another type without going through the stem-cell phase. Brandom Keim explains this much better than me. And for the uber-nerd-scientist and genetics-enthusiast among you, here’s a link to the paper submitted in Nature.
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Microsoft just gave me a pleasant surprise!
I had heard/read some good press about IE8. I was bored today and decided to download an app I hadn’t used it in a long time. So I thought, hey.. Microsoft has been making some noise these days, and I am loving the new Zune 3.0. I wonder what else they’re upto? Went to Microsoft.com and got myself an installment of the IE8 beta 2. And boy am I pleasantly surprised! They’ve really hit the nail on this release. The UI is just crisp and clean. On-demand favorites and links are much welcomed. It’s only been less than 15 minutes, and I’m loving this software. Two of my favorite features are Web Slices and Accelerators. I’ll add some of my favorite slices and accelerators in near future. Wow, Microsoft, wow. You seem to be working hard at this now. On a side note, I welcome the mother ship’s decision to remove those photo/video/email apps from Windows 7. Another step in the right direction.
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Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is out
Go get it! Try it out. Notice the Geode and Improved Ctrl+Tab interface :) Firefox now also has built-in Ogg video support and ability to drag-n-drop tabs from one window another. Have fun with it (i.e. test it and report bugs). More feature to come in near future. Here’s a link to their What’s New site for Ff3.1
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xtranormal Text-to-movie
This a cool site. You get to be in the director’s seat. If you have a script and want to quickly see what it’d look like, just go to the site and provide commentary and character. This saves you from creating heavy-duty animation characters. Even if you are not the “creative-kind” person, check out some of the movies that have already been submitted. Pretty neat stuff.
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After my love and over-joy for Mozilla’s Ubiquity, here’s another Mozilla project that I feel energized about. It’s called Bespin. Bespin is an online IDE. Currently it only supports CSS/HTML/JavaScript syntax highlighting, but its architecture allows for further additions. If you have worked with vi or vim, Bespin UI will look very familiar. It is almost as if Vi team made a Web version of the software.
I am looking forward to a beta and post-beta launch. It is going to be EPIC! If you would like to try it out, feel free to create an account and try your hand at it. It is sure to amaze and entertain your kindling mind.
Here’s a cheer for the first step towards a usable and free online IDE.
(update: Not sure why I didn’t mention a link to the project. Here it is.)
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