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User Name HotScientist
Member Since 2008-08-31
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Safari 4 Modifier 0.2.4 (Mac OS X)
Does everything I wanted to change in Safari 4 and does it well. About the vendetta going on here: you guys should be ashamed. I tried Safari Buddy - even back at version 1.0 when it still used radio boxes and was distinctly unfinished - and the same guys that gave it 5 stars then came here and trashed the competition. This is so not on, especially considering that the developers give it away for free. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 30 2009 @ 10:01 AM PDT
SafariBlock 2.2r1 (Mac OS X)
and works fine with Safari 4 [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 24 2009 @ 10:43 AM PDT
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I guess I can't complain as it is free 
but I prefer Safari 4 Modifier - it has more options and looks better (yes, looks matter to women too, not just guys) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 24 2009 @ 10:19 AM PDT
Safari 4 Modifier 0.2.2.0 (Mac OS X)
I had trouble downloading the app at home and contacted the developer about it - 30 min later he had send it to me by email. Good interface, fully featured, excellent support, and free - what more could I want? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 24 2009 @ 10:15 AM PDT
OligoChecker Win 2.39.1 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
I originally passed over OligoChecker due to a negative comment posted on MacUpdate by Taro Yamamoto, but some time later I saw it mentioned on a private site as only one of two programs with a "can't live without it" rating. So about 3 months ago I decided to give it a try after all. We have a filemaker database in our lab with over 2000 oligos which I exported as a tab delimited text file and import into OligoChecker. After 5 months of use I have to say: 1) I can't see any false results as Taro claims - as the description says OligoChecker won't deal with duplications in the gene (where the oligo can bind to several identical sites) but otherwise it works fine. And in hindsight his claim that the author doesn't know what the program is doing seems strange - after all he wrote it, didn't he? 2) OligoChecker certainly saves a LOT of time. It has now become a standard procedure for us to check a template against the oligo database before ordering oligos or performing any new PCR. You might not need it if you only have 10 oligos, but what if you have more than 100? Will you still remember where each binds? What about the oligos your colleagues ordered? We often find that we already have oligos we can use, thereby saving time and money. 3) We recently extended our work from mouse to other organisms. Without OligoChecker we might just have ordered new oligos for each gene, but with OligoChecker it is just a matter of seconds to find that many (but by no means all) oligos will work as PCR primers. I shudder to think of doing this by hand, and decided to register a lab license for OligoChecker afterwards (and found Dr. Winter to be a very pleasant person to deal with). I would say that OligoChecker has become indispensable to me. Is it perfect? By no means. It is clearly a work in progress, but it has also been written with what the lab needs in mind. And it fits perfectly between Primer3 (which we use to design primers) and AmplifyX (Bill Engels excellent PCR simulation, for which OligoChecker has included export options for both the complete database and oligos suitable for PCR). So our setup is: Oligo design: Primer3 Oligo database: OligoChecker PCR simulation: AmplifyX I highly recommend it and would suggest that people make up their own mind. P.S. A very welcome addition in the last update is that often used sequences can now be added to the menu for quick access. [alert admin]
Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 02:44 PM PDT
OligoChecker X 2.39.1 (Mac OS X)
I originally passed over OligoChecker due to a negative comment posted on MacUpdate by Taro Yamamoto, but some time later I saw it mentioned on a private site as only one of two programs with a "can't live without it" rating. So about 3 months ago I decided to give it a try after all. We have a filemaker database in our lab with over 2000 oligos which I exported as a tab delimited text file and import into OligoChecker. After 5 months of use I have to say: 1) I can't see any false results as Taro claims - as the description says OligoChecker won't deal with duplications in the gene (where the oligo can bind to several identical sites) but otherwise it works fine. And in hindsight his claim that the author doesn't know what the program is doing seems strange - after all he wrote it, didn't he? 2) OligoChecker certainly saves a LOT of time. It has now become a standard procedure for us to check a template against the oligo database before ordering oligos or performing any new PCR. You might not need it if you only have 10 oligos, but what if you have more than 100? Will you still remember where each binds? What about the oligos your colleagues ordered? We often find that we already have oligos we can use, thereby saving time and money. 3) We recently extended our work from mouse to other organisms. Without OligoChecker we might just have ordered new oligos for each gene, but with OligoChecker it is just a matter of seconds to find that many (but by no means all) oligos will work as PCR primers. I shudder to think of doing this by hand, and decided to register a lab license for OligoChecker afterwards (and found Dr. Winter to be a very pleasant person to deal with). I would say that OligoChecker has become indispensable to me. Is it perfect? By no means. It is clearly a work in progress, but it has also been written with what the lab needs in mind. And it fits perfectly between Primer3 (which we use to design primers) and AmplifyX (Bill Engels excellent PCR simulation, for which OligoChecker has included export options for both the complete database and oligos suitable for PCR). So our setup is: Oligo design: Primer3 Oligo database: OligoChecker PCR simulation: AmplifyX I highly recommend it and would suggest that people make up their own mind. P.S. A very welcome addition in the last update is that often used sequences can now be added to the menu for quick access. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 02:42 PM PDT
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Little typo up there - it has been 5 months, not 3.
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Monday, September 01 2008 @ 09:38 AM PDT
