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Monday, January 23, 2012

This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

Jan 21, 2012 5:00 PM 17,306

Boxer is a Free DOS Game Emulator for your Mac (Mac) Computer games have come a long way since the days of Doom, Zork, Tie Fighter, and Castle Wolfenstein, but many of us who grew up with those games would like to replay them. Boxer is a free app that will let you play any DOS game on your Mac.
iBoostUp Cleans Out Your Mac's System File Clutter in a Minute (Mac) iBoostUp cleans out the crap on your drive and fine-tunes your system for better performance. It's simple, it's quick, and it's free.
AntiCrop "Uncrops" Your Photos by Extending the Picture's Background (iOS) If you've ever taken a hasty photo on your phone and didn't leave enough room on the outside, AntiCrop is the app can "uncrop" those photos by filling in the edges with just a few swipes.
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iOS 5 Is Finally Here (iOS) iPhone-hacking group Chronic Dev Team just released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. We've explained why a tethered jailbreak can be such a hassle, which is why we've been waiting to recommend jailbreaking your up-to-date iPhone. Luckily, that wait is over.
Clean My Desktop Sorts Files Into Content Specific Folders (Mac) A desktop filled with hundreds of files in a variety of formats can be a headache to clean up, but Clean My Desktop makes it easy by sorting everything into content specific folders based on the file type.
MindNode Is a Mind Mapping App that Makes Brainstorming Simple and Easy (Mac/iOS) Regardless of the type of work that you do, brainstorming is an important part of generating new ideas and new approaches to getting your work done more efficiently. Mind mapping is a brainstorming technique that helps you get all of your interconnected thoughts out in a diagram, and there are a number of complicated tools designed to help you do it. MindNode for Mac and iOS is pricey, but it's one of the best tools we've seen for the job.
Pomodroido Is an Elegant Pomodoro Timer for Your Android Phone (Pomodroido) If you're a fan of the Pomodoro productivity technique, you know that part of the philosophy is to work in short, focused, timed bursts and then take periodic breaks to relax. To do this, you'll need a timer, and Pomodroido is a free app that turns your Android phone into one that follows you everywhere.
Forismatic Is a Free App that Helps You Relax and Keeps You Inspired Every Day (Mac) Computers are supposed to make our work easier, but in reality they often just bring us more work and stress us out. Give your Mac the opportunity to help you relax for a change with Forismatic, a free app that sits in the menubar until you need a little inspiration to help you keep going, and will remind you to take a break now and again to relax.
Breathing Zone Guides You Towards Slower Breathing to Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety (Mac/iOS) Breathing Zone is a simple app that helps slow your breathing rhythm to calm you down and make you feel more relaxed. If you're a bit stressed or anxious, it's a good way to help you alleviate those feelings in just a few minutes.
WatchMe Is a Desktop Timer that Keeps Track of Multiple Alarms at Once (Windows) Unfortunately, few of us have the luxury of only keeping track of one thing at a time. There are plenty of great timers available to help you keep track of how long you've been working or when you need to take a break, but if you need to track multiple times or set more than one timer, you may be out of luck. WatchMe is a timer that allows you to set multiple alerts and multiple timers so you're alerted at different times for different things.

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/94J0DABeIrw/this-weeks-top-downloads

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

SWTOR Vanity Pets Q&A with Damion Schubert ? Inquisitor's ...

As a serial MMO vanity pet collector, I?m thrilled to have gotten a few minutes of lead systems designer Damion Schubert?s time to talk about SWTOR?s adorable mechanical vanity pets. Read on for some details on upcoming additional ways to obtain vanity pets beyond purchasing from a vendor, pet improvements we can expect to see in the next major content patch, and find out which of the current pets is his favorite.

IR: Vanity or companion pets were added to the game pretty close to the end after a significant amount of forum speculation as to whether or not they would be in-game. Were they always on the road map for inclusion?

DS: They were always on the road map for inclusion!? One of the things about project development of a massive MMO is that you have to prioritize features in the best way to ensure the project gets done.? Tops are features that have high content requirements (such as story) and/or have major impacts on testing the core gameplay and world flow (such as combat and worldbuilding), so features that impacted those elements were built first.? Features that were more auxiliary to that, such as vanity pets and the dressing room, were less central ? not having them in wasn?t going to make the beta substantially worse or prevent other devs from doing their jobs ? and so those features were prioritized downwards.? But we knew we wanted them in.

IR: Right now, the pets we are seeing are all purchasable, some with light/dark side alignment requirements. Any intentions of having some that are drops in the future?

DS: Absolutely!? In fact, some of these should show up in our next major patch!? I don?t want to give out too big a hint, but they smell kinda bad on the outside.

IR: Do any of the currently discovered pets interact with their environment? i.e. in reply to locations/activities or emotes?

DS: Not at this time.? It?s something we?d like to add, but there are higher code priority features in queue right now.

IR: Is there going to be any way for characters to obtain opposite-faction pets?

DS: We currently have LS/DS pets, not opposite faction pets.? That?s not to say this won?t change.? One of the things we want to do a lot more of is adding items that take a bit of communal exploration to discover ? we?re well aware of how popular Datacrons and the Magenta Lightsaber crystal is ? and minipets is one place where we?ve identified adding fun things like that could really pay off.

IR: Are there plans to add in more pets? I?ve seen some pretty swanky robots out there I?d love to have miniaturized and following me along on my journeys.

DS: We plan to add a steady stream of new vanity pets to most major patches.? Note: I didn?t say ?all?, but we?re making a concerted effort to do this frequently.

IR: Will social level and eventually legacy level be key items pet collectors will want to focus on for access to more pets? Or do you think you will be finding additional ways such as random drops to spread around the pets?

DS: Yes, and yes!? We want to use the pets to reward as many kinds of gameplay as we can.

IR: Which is your favorite vanity pet in game currently and why?

DS: I gotta say, the little sandcrawler just cracks me up every time I see it.

IR: Any other improvements we can count on?

DS: Yep!? The abilities page just got restructured to improve usability, and one of the things that fell out of that was a dedicated ?Pets? section.? This will come in the next major patch.

A big THANK YOU! to Damion for taking the time to talk minipets with us!

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Source: http://inquisitorsroadhouse.com/2012/01/20/swtor-vanity-pets-qa-with-damion-schubert/

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Best Online Meeting Service? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Best Online Meeting Service? If you work from home, or just at a company with employees scattered around the globe in different offices, you need a tool to let you all set eyes on one another, share the same screen, collaborate on documents, and collectively work together even though you're miles apart. This week we'd like to know which service you or your company uses to get the job done.

It's been a while since we talked about online meeting services, and we thought it was time to check back and see if the landscape has changed. New features have appeared with better features, and even some social networks like Google+ have added screen sharing and collaboration features. Let us know which tool you think is the best in the comments below.

Hive Five nominations take place in the comments, where you post your favorite tool for the job. We get hundreds of comments, so to make your nomination clear, please include it at the top of your comment like so: VOTE: BEST ONLINE MEETING SERVICE. Please don't include your vote in a reply to another commenter. Instead, make your vote and reply separate comments. If you don't follow this format, we may not count your vote. To prevent tampering with the results, votes from first-time commenters may not be counted. After you've made your nomination, let us know what makes it stand out from the competition.

About the Hive Five: The Hive Five feature series asks readers to answer the most frequently asked question we get: "Which tool is the best?" Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, then YOU tell us your favorite tools to get the job done. Every weekend, we'll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best. For an example, check out last week's five best wallpaper sites.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/RxSaXfXUPgQ/best-online-meeting-service

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone

Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to stress, has died. He was 70.

Vale died unexpectedly in his sleep Jan. 3 while on vacation in Hana on the Hawaiian island of Maui, said his wife, Betty. The cause of death has not been determined.

The Texas-born Vale, who joined the Salk Institute in 1970, became one of the world's leading authorities on peptide hormones and growth factors that provide communication between the brain and endocrine system (the organs that produce the body's hormones).

His research team's landmark discovery came in 1981.

"He cracked one of the most challenging problems of our era: He discovered the brain hormone that serves as the on-off switch to the body's stress response, sometimes called the fight-or-flight response," said Ronald M. Evans, a professor and hormone expert at the Salk Institute.

"This has been the subject of speculation and investigation for more than a hundred years," said Evans, adding that Vale had been working on the problem for about 15.

"There was a big effort to try and find the secret for how the stress response is controlled, but the molecule was elusive, present in vanishingly small amounts," Evans said. "The technological challenge was enormous. This was like trying to climb Mt. Everest in biology."

Vale had earned a doctorate in physiology and biochemistry in 1968 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he trained in the lab under Roger Guillemin.

After Vale followed Guillemin to the Salk Institute in 1970, they continued to work together on perfecting the technology that led to isolating the first two brain peptides. That work led to Guillemin's becoming one of three American scientists who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.

In 1978, Vale struck out on his own, setting up an independent lab at the Salk Institute to continue the hunt for the elusive stress hormone.

After Vale's 1981 breakthrough, "neuropeptide discovery exploded into a whole new field of research, which continues today," Evans said.

"The molecule he isolated was called CRF ? corticotropin releasing factor," Evans said. "It's how the brain controls the production of cortisone from the adrenal gland, which is part of the stress response.

"But the discovery of CRF led to the realization that there was a small family of related neuropeptides that help to control anxiety, depression, anorexia, diabetes and drug abuse."

In 1982, Vale and his team discovered another hormone: the growth hormone releasing factor (GRF), which controls the body's growth. "It was another big advance in completing the puzzle of neuropeptides," Evans said.

Vale and his team discovered more than a dozen neuropeptides and their signaling mechanisms.

Vale co-founded two biotech companies ? Neurocrine Biosciences and Acceleron Pharma ? that have gone on to develop the medical and therapeutic potential of his discoveries.

"There are several drugs currently in the clinic and both are for controlling the stress response, as well as controlling metabolic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease," Evans said.

Another treatment that's in advanced clinical trials controls endometriosis, an inflammatory disease of the ovaries commonly linked to infertility.

Vale, who was born in Houston on July 3, 1941, and earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Rice University in 1964, also was an adjunct professor of medicine at UC San Diego. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

In addition to his wife of 42 years, Vale is survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Gandhi and Susannah Howieson; his father, Wylie; his brother, Shannon; and a granddaughter.

dennis.mclellan@latimes.com

Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/eLWbXO36DsM/la-me-wylie-vale-20120118,0,7810239.story

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Martin Luther King III Resigns as President of The King Center

Martin Luther King III has announced his resignation from his post as President of The King Center, with immediate effect, in a statement published on the?Atlanta Business Chronicle?Web site, on Tuesday.

The King Center, founded in 1968,?is a hub devoted to the legacy of his father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and is the largest repository of primary source material on both him and American Civil Rights Movement, in the world.

The resignation comes a day after the country celebrated the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday established to honor his memory and service to nation. The King Center had earlier announced changes in their top management, via a release on Jan. 9. According to that statement, Bernice King was to have replaced her brother as CEO, allowing King III to retain the President's post. King III had been working in both capacities since the spring of 2010.

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"I will be devoting my primary future efforts towards launching a new organization that will focus on supporting a new generation of young 'drum majors for justice' worldwide to expand my commitment to the Kingian principles of nonviolence, social justice, and human rights," King III said, in the statement announcing his resignation.

There are no details as to why King III resigned from his post. His statement, however, adds he will continue to be associated with the Center, as an active member of the Board.

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Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/283487/20120118/martin-luther-king-iii-resigns-president-center.htm

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