Saturday, November 29, 2008
Organise
Download Mover Automatically Sorts Incoming Files
5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Download Mover is a simple application which allows you to apply sets of rules to folders. If you dump all your downloaded files into a designated download folder for instance, you can assign rules to have all images moved to one folder, all zip files to another, and so on. Combine Download mover with Auto Delete and you’ll have the tidiest folders on the block. For a lightweight home-grown alternative to Download Mover, check out Gina’s VB script Hard Drive Janitor. Download Mover is freeware, Windows only. Download Mover [via Download Squad] More »
Work
Solve Puzzles To Help Out Scientists
1:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows/Linux/Mac OS X: If you have ever donated your computer’s idle cycles to a charitable project, Foldit will be right up your alley. After installing the game you are given protein samples to untangle. On the surface it appears as though you are trying to solve a puzzle of tangled cords, but your solutions are much more valuable: The number of different ways even a small protein can fold is astronomical because there are so many degrees of freedom. Figuring out which of the many, many possible structures is the best one is regarded as one of the hardest problems in biology today and current methods take a lot of money and time, even for computers. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins. More »
Communicate
