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IrfanView

November 21, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

irfanview

Availability: Labs  |  Download
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IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. The software was first released in 1996. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use.

It supports viewing and saving of numerous file types including image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, JP2 & JPM (JPEG2000), PNG (includes the optimizer PNGOUT), TIFF, camera RAW, ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet), EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile), FSH (EA Sports format), ICO (Windows icon), PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush), PBM (Portable bitmap), PDF (Portable Document Format), PGM (Portable graymap), PPM (Portable Pixelmap), TGA (Truevision Targa), WebP and viewing of media files such as Flash, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG, MP3, MIDI, and text files.

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Cambridge Structural Database System

November 21, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

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Availability: Labs | Download
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The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is both a repository and a validated and curated resource for the three-dimensional structural data of molecules generally containing at least carbon and hydrogen, comprising a wide range of organic, metal-organic and organometallic molecules. The specific entries are complementary to the other crystallographic databases such as the PDB, ICSD and PDF. The data, typically obtained by X-ray crystallography and less frequently by neutron diffraction, and submitted by crystallographers and chemists from around the world, are freely accessible (as deposited by authors) on the Internet via the CSD’s parent organization’s website (CCDC,Repository). The CSD is overseen by the not-for-profit incorporated company called the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, CCDC.Read more…

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Screencast-O-Matic

November 20, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

screencast-o-matic

Availability: Free web application
Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Expression Encoder, ScreenFlow, BB FlashBack Pro

Screencast-O-Matic is a web application that allows a user to make simple, quick recordings of their computer’s screen without installing software.  Users can narrate the video using a microphone or use a webcam to narrate while showing a video of the host.  The software allows highlighting a particular portion of the screen or capturing the entire screen.  The software then allows you to either download the resulting video or upload it to YouTube.

Screencast-O-Matic is available for free for Mac (10.6 or higher) and Windows, and a Pro license introduces additional features.  Free users can take up to a 15 minute video.

Screencast-O-Matic’s power is in its simplicity and portability.  It can be really useful when using an unfamiliar computer such as one in a podium of a classroom or lecture hall.

You can access Screencast-O-Matic at www.screencast-o-matic.com.