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Movavi Video Converter 3.1.0 - Easy-to-use video & audio file converter.. (Demo)

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:03 AM PDT



Movavi Video Converter is a video & audio file converter. Convert video & audio on your Mac. Save videos for watching on your portable device. Extract soundtracks from video. And much more...

Here's just a taste of what you can do with Movavi Video Converter for Mac:

  • Convert video and audio files between popular formats: AVI (including DivX, XviD, and other codecs), MPEG 1,2, MP4 (including H.263, H.264, and other codecs), 3GP (3GPP, 3GPP2), Flash (FLV) as well as MP3, WAV, OGG, AAC and FLAC.
  • Use the ready-made presets for the popular media players: iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Epson, BlackBerry and more.
  • Fine-tune any output format settings to get exactly the results you want.
  • Join multiple videos and combine them into a single movie.
  • Save time with our ultra high-performance video converting technology.
Try the ultimate power of Movavi Video Converter on your Mac today!

Version 3.1.0:
  • Movavi Video Converter is now even more convenient: sort files by newly added parameters and convert any selected part of your video/audio file or DVD.
  • If you don't need the entire file or DVD encoded, select any part of it to convert. The conversion will be finished even faster, and the video or audio fragment will be saved as a separate file.
  • Improved program interface makes sure you spend less time working with your media collection.
  • Compatibility with .mod and .dat files has been added.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes have been made.


Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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VeprIT Photo Sense 1.8.0 - Quickly and easily enhance your photos.. (Shareware)

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 02:46 AM PDT



VeprIT Photo Sense is designed to make your photographs more attractive quickly and easily, without spending a lot of time and money on learning, purchasing, and using professional photo manipulation software. Photo Sense enhances photos automatically, and allows you to customize results to your liking. It ensures that you get great results very quickly by supporting batch processing and image settings synchronization. In addition, Photo Sense offers a number of creative effects.

In more detail, Photo Sense provides you with:

  • Professional image enhancement techniques automatically applied to multiple photographs.
  • Results customization at two levels: semi-automatic and manual.
  • Batch processing (working with multiple images at a time) in automatic and semi-automatic modes.
  • Image settings synchronization between photographs (including manual adjustments) to speed-up the workflow.
  • Crop and straighten tool (its settings can be synchronized between images of the same size, providing batch operation).
  • Batch image rotation.
  • Batch image resizing (down-sampling).
  • Batch image format conversion.
  • A number of creative effects (applied in a batch mode).
  • Non-destructive operation.
  • Convenient ways to compare photos before and after processing, including a side-by-side comparison.

Instead of adjusting every photograph manually, as required in traditional image editors, just let Photo Sense process multiple photos completely automatically. Then save the results you like. If you wish to improve the automatic results, choose what adjustments should be applied to particular photographs (the semi-automatic customization). Furthermore, you can fine-tune the results manually. Finally, you can give your photos an artistic finishing touch by applying creative effects.

The unique automatic photo enhancement algorithm implemented in Photo Sense embraces everything its developers learned during over 4 years of professional photography experience. The only shortcoming the application has compared to manual processing is the lack of human vision, which sometimes can lead to a suboptimal choice of automatic image processing parameters. With the tools provided by Photo Sense (two customization levels, batch processing, image settings synchronization etc.) you can easily and quickly perfect the automatic results.



Photo Sense 1.8.0:
  • In addition to choosing the pre-defined color presets, you can now stylize photos by applying various textures, noise, and vignetting.
  • Several new pre-defined creative effects
  • Images are now first cropped, then processed. This slightly decreases the crop tool performance, but improves the automatic enhancement results and performance, because the processing is now based only on the most important (cropped) image part. It also improves manual adjustment performance for cropped photos. As a result, after cropping, the image look may significantly change.
  • User interface improvements:
    • Undo/Redo functionality within the Manual Adjustment window.
    • Option to apply changes immediately in the Processing Options and Effects panels.
    • Pre-defined effects are now grouped by types for easier access.
    • In the Save Multiple Files panel, tokens are now inserted at the cursor position, not only to the end.
  • Mac OS Application Sandboxing support (only in the Mac App Store version).
  • Bug fixes:
    • Manual Adjustment window could sometimes suddenly switch to another image.
    • Cropped photos could sometimes look different in the Manual Adjustment window.
    • The Reset Crop&Straighten Settings command did not update the image shown in the Manual Adjustment window.
    • Illegal characters in output file names could cause problems when saving.


GYRO

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:14 PM PDT

Platform: Android — GYRO GYRO is a simple game of reflex-based color matching created by Submachine Factory. It's one of those games that are perfect for short bursts of play, providing ample amounts of challenge to train your reaction times and hand-eye coordination. Simply drag and rotate the circle on the screen (or use the bar at the bottom for fine control), moving it so its three color slices catch the appropriately colored particles floating in from outside. Capture more and you'll increase your score multiplier, but get one wrong and it resets. Now your only goal is this: score as many points as you possibly can! Tagged as: android, arcade, free, game, mobile, rating-g, reflex, submachinefactory, tablet

Sensors, Vol. 12, Pages 11571-11591: A Study of the Relationship between Weather Variables and Electric Power Demand inside a Smart Grid/Smart World Framework

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

One of the main challenges of today's society is the need to fulfill at the same time the two sides of the dichotomy between the growing energy demand and the need to look after the environment. Smart Grids are one of the answers: intelligent energy grids which retrieve data about the environment through extensive sensor networks and react accordingly to optimize resource consumption. In order to do this, the Smart Grids need to understand the existing relationship between energy demand and a set of relevant climatic variables. All smart "systems" (buildings, cities, homes, consumers, etc.) have the potential to employ their intelligence for self-adaptation to climate conditions. After introducing the Smart World, a global framework for the collaboration of these smart systems, this paper presents the relationship found at experimental level between a range of relevant weather variables and electric power demand patterns, presenting a case study using an agent-based system, and emphasizing the need to consider this relationship in certain Smart World (and specifically Smart Grid and microgrid) applications.

Brain Sciences, Vol. 2, Pages 332-346: Long-Term Effects of Physical Exercise on Verbal Learning and Memory in Middle-Aged Adults: Results of a One-Year Follow-Up Study

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

A few months of physical exercise have been shown to increase cognition and to modulate brain functions in previously sedentary, mainly older adults. However, whether the preservation of newly gained cognitive capacities requires an active maintenance of the achieved fitness level during the intervention is not yet known. The aim of the present study was to test whether cardiovascular fitness one year after an exercise intervention was linked to cognitive variables. Twenty-five healthy participants (42–57 years of age) took part in a follow-up assessment one year after the end of a supervised exercise intervention. Measurements included a cardiovascular fitness test, psychometric tests of verbal learning and memory and selective attention as well as questionnaires assessing physical activity and self-efficacy beliefs. Recognition scores of participants with higher cardiovascular fitness at follow-up did not change significantly during the follow-up period; however, the scores of participants with lower cardiovascular fitness decreased. One year after the end of the physical training intervention, previously sedentary participants spent more hours exercising than prior to the intervention. The time participants spent exercising correlated with their self-efficacy beliefs. These results demonstrate a direct link between verbal learning and cardiovascular fitness and show that positive effects of physical interventions on learning and memory do need an active maintenance of cardiovascular fitness.

QQ 2.1.3 - Connect to the Chinese social network.. (Free)

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:50 AM PDT



QQ connects you to over 600 million Chinese QQ members and many of your favorite websites and useful tools. It's the best place to stay in touch with friends and make new ones.

Try it now!

Version 2.1.3:

  • InstaViewer offers you personal Instagram feed on QQ International.
  • QQ Disk provides you 1GB storage in the cloud for FREE. Keep a copy of important files or use it to transfer large files between computers.
  • Daily Poster presents a collection of fun daily pictures from our Today window.
  • Push Notifications delivers to you important product updates and announcement.
  • Message list can be opened in Full-Screen mode.
  • Ability to choose IP address and Server Type.
  • Screen capture now works fluidly.
  • Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow the 'Show online contacts only' setting to be saved.
  • The wording in chat-windows can be copied to another program.
  • Saves time when showing an unread message.


Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Cells, Vol. 1, Pages 617-630: How Human Tumor Viruses Make Use of Autophagy

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Viruses commandeer regulatory pathways of their hosts to optimize their success as cellular parasites. The human tumor viruses, Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) all affect autophagy for their own ends. EBV and KSHV regulate it during latent infections, a phase when no progeny virus is produced, while HBV and HCV use autophagy to promote their productive infections. Here we shall compare and contrast how these human tumor viruses regulate autophagy and what they gain by the appropriation of this cellular pathway.

Cells, Vol. 1, Pages 597-616: Heavy Metals and Metalloids as Autophagy Inducing Agents: Focus on Cadmium and Arsenic

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

In recent years, research on the autophagic process has greatly increased, invading the fields of biology and medicine. Several markers of the autophagic process have been discovered and various strategies have been reported studying this molecular process in different biological systems in both physiological and stress conditions. Furthermore, mechanisms of metalloid- or heavy metal-induced toxicity continue to be of interest given the ubiquitous nature and distribution of these contaminants in the environment where they often play the role of pollutants of numerous organisms. The aim of this review is a critical analysis and correlation of knowledge of autophagic mechanisms studied under stress for the most common arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) compounds. In this review we report data obtained in different experimental models for each compound, highlighting similarities and/or differences in the activation of autophagic processes. A more detailed discussion will concern the activation of autophagy in Cd-exposed sea urchin embryo since it is a suitable model system that is very sensitive to environmental stress, and Cd is one of the most studied heavy metal inductors of stress and modulator of different factors such as: protein kinase and phosphatase, caspases, mitochondria, heat shock proteins, metallothioneins, transcription factors, reactive oxygen species, apoptosis and autophagy.

Top two League of Legends teams disqualified in MLG Summer Championship

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:21 PM PDT

Teams Curse NA and Team Dignitas disqualified for violating code of conduct; players denied their share of the prize pool.

 

North American eSports organisation Major League Gaming (MLG) has concluded its League of Legends Summer Championship event with the disqualification of the game's top two teams.

The grand final saw teams Curse NA and Team Dignitas battle it out in an unorthodox manner, choosing to play an All Random, All Middle (ARAM) format. However, in an official news post issued by MLG, the teams were disqualified for "collusion," after the teams allegedly agreed to split the prize money. The eSports organisation determined the action to be in violation of the official code of conduct.

Both teams will not be receiving any points to carry on to the North American Regionals and have been denied their share of the prize pool, which totalled $40,000. The money will instead be awarded to the teams placing third and fourth.

Following the announcement, various members of the teams issued apologies on Twitter and YouTube.

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"Top two League of Legends teams disqualified in MLG Summer Championship" was posted by Zorine Te on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:21:47 -0700

Sasquatch and Scarlett talk about the North American SC II Scene

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:54 PM PDT

Sasquatch and Scarlett say that the North American Starcraft II community doesn't work hard enough.

 

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"Sasquatch and Scarlett talk about the North American SC II Scene" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:54:58 -0700

Reo talks about discrediting his doubters

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:46 PM PDT

TSquared catches up with Reo after his victory at the Mortal Kombat MLG Summer Championships.

 

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"Reo talks about discrediting his doubters" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:46:51 -0700

Leenock credits his MLG Finals Victory to his Coach

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:46 PM PDT

Leenock talks about winning for his coach who continued to give him unconditional support despite his slump.

 

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"Leenock credits his MLG Finals Victory to his Coach" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:46:06 -0700

Elementz from Curse apologizes for the ARAM

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:31 PM PDT

TSquared talks with Elementz are the disqualification of Curse and Dignitas.

 

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"Elementz from Curse apologizes for the ARAM" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:31:30 -0700

First talks about his incredible run at the MLG

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:51 PM PDT

Slasher catches up with First to ask him about his crazy run at the MLG Summer Championships.

 

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"First talks about his incredible run at the MLG" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:51:43 -0700

Cranks says the fans saved him from quitting eSports

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:24 PM PDT

Slasher chats with CranK about his MLG Raleigh experience and finds out that the fans saved him from quitting Starcraft II.

 

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"Cranks says the fans saved him from quitting eSports" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:24:35 -0700

Slasher, TSquared, and MrsViolence wrap up Day 2 at MLG Raleigh

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Missed out on the coverage on Day 2 at the MLG Summer Championship? Get up to speed now!

 

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"Slasher, TSquared, and MrsViolence wrap up Day 2 at MLG Raleigh" was posted by erickt on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:28:01 -0700

Soul Calibur V Grand Finals and Champion Interview

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:46 PM PDT

TSquared catches up with the Soul Calibur V Champion Xephukai at the MLG Summer Championships.

 

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"Soul Calibur V Grand Finals and Champion Interview" was posted by erickt on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:46:57 -0700

Crystals, Vol. 2, Pages 1253-1260: [Pr2(pdc)3(Hpdc)(H2O)4]n·n(H3hp)·8n(H2O), a One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Containing PrO6N3 Tri-Capped Trigonal Prisms and PrO8N Mono-Capped Square Anti-Prisms (H2pdc = Pyridine 2,6-Dicarboxylic Acid, C7H5NO4; 3hp = 3-Hydroxy Pyridine, C5H5NO)

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

The synthesis, structure and some properties of the one-dimensional coordination polymer, [Pr2(pdc)3(Hpdc)]n·n(H3hp)·8n(H2O), (H2pdc = pyridine 2,6-dicarboxylic acid, C7H5NO4; 3hp = 3-hydroxypyridine, C5H5NO) are described. One of the Pr3+ ions is coordinated by two O,N,O-tridentate pdc2− ligands and one tridentate Hpdc− anion to generate a fairly regular PrO6N3 tri-capped trigonal prism, with the N atoms acting as the caps. The second Pr3+ ion is coordinated by one tridentate pdc2− dianion, four water molecules and two monodentate bridging pdc2− ligands to result in a PrO8N coordination polyhedron that approximates to a mono-capped square-anti-prism. The ligands bridge the metal-atom nodes into a chain, which extends in the [100] direction. The H3hp+ cation and uncoordinated water molecules occupy the inter-chain regions and an N–HLO and numerous O–HLO hydrogen bonds consolidate the structure. The H3hp+ species appears to intercalate between pendant pdc rings to consolidate the polymeric structure. Crystal data: 1 (C33H43N5O29Pr2), Mr = 1255.54, triclinic,  (No. 2), Z = 2, a = 13.2567(1) Å, b = 13.6304(2) Å, c = 13.6409(2) Å, α = 89.695(1)°, β = 63.049(1)°, γ = 86.105(1)°, V = 2191.16(5) Å3, R(F) = 0.033, wR(F2) = 0.084.

Biology, Vol. 1, Pages 370-382: Discovery of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Complex Genomes Using SGSautoSNP

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are becoming the dominant form of molecular marker for genetic and genomic analysis. The advances in second generation DNA sequencing provide opportunities to identify very large numbers of SNPs in a range of species. However, SNP identification remains a challenge for large and polyploid genomes due to their size and complexity. We have developed a pipeline for the robust identification of SNPs in large and complex genomes using Illumina second generation DNA sequence data and demonstrated this by the discovery of SNPs in the hexaploid wheat genome. We have developed a SNP discovery pipeline called SGSautoSNP (Second-Generation Sequencing AutoSNP) and applied this to discover more than 800,000 SNPs between four hexaploid wheat cultivars across chromosomes 7A, 7B and 7D. All SNPs are presented for download and viewing within a public GBrowse database. Validation suggests an accuracy of greater than 93% of SNPs represent polymorphisms between wheat cultivars and hence are valuable for detailed diversity analysis, marker assisted selection and genotyping by sequencing. The pipeline produces output in GFF3, VCF, Flapjack or Illumina Infinium design format for further genotyping diverse populations. As well as providing an unprecedented resource for wheat diversity analysis, the method establishes a foundation for high resolution SNP discovery in other large and complex genomes.

Crystals, Vol. 2, Pages 1248-1252: One-Pot Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Methyl 5-Hydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylate

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

The title compound, Methyl 5-Hydroxy-1-Phenyl-1H-Pyrazole-3-Carboxylate (C11H10N2O3), was prepared by a one-pot, two-component reaction of an equimolar mixture of phenyl hydrazine and dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate (DMAD) at reflux temperature for 2 h in a mixture of toluene and dichloromethane as solvent. C11H10N2O3 was crystallized from an ethanol solution in monoclinic space group P21/c with unit cell dimensions a = 9.5408(16), b = 9.5827(16), c = 11.580(2) Å, β = 105.838(3)°, V = 1018.5(3) Å3, Z = 4.

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