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Did you know? ImageScope has online help! I know, I know, this seems almost too obvious, but all you have to do is hit F1 and poof, help!
The online help is indexed and searchable, and includes handy charts like the one shown above with all of ImageScope’s keyboard shortcuts. Please use it!
TheScientist Magazine has a great back-page feature called Foundations, in which they highlight technological breakthroughs from the distant past, and in the June 2009 issue they feature the invention of the first Atomic Force Microscope, from 1985. (Not sure if that qualifies as the distant past, I guess it depends on how old you are :)
The first prototype AFM (shown at right) was rigged to cords and fitted with metal plates to prevent vibration. On top, a tiny cantilever tip similar to a needle in a record player grazed across the surface of a material and bent ever-so-slightly in response to slight atomic force variations. The tip's deflection was then translated into a three-dimensional image of the sample.
Very cool, and you have to love using ordinary twine to isolate vibrations.
Hey all you Aperio customers out there... did you know Aperio has a Customer Forum? Please bookmark:
All customers who have a new system or an active support contract are welcome to participate in the forum, which is a great place to ask questions and share information. The forum is actively monitored by the Aperio support team, but often the best answers to your questions come from other customers :)
If you're an Aperio customer, please check it out!
In this connection, I'd also like to mention also that the Aperio website has an online Documentation Center available here:
This documentation is "open" and available to everyone.
Hi everyone - hope y’all had a great Fourth of July weekend, and celebrated with friends family fireworks BBQ suntan lotion etc. These “little tips” have been getting bigger, so today I’m going back to something dirt simple…
Did you know? ImageScope lets you rotate an image while viewing it. Just select Image | Rotate Image (or hit Ctrl-E) to display the Rotate Image toolbar:
Now you can click on any of the buttons to rotate or flip the current image. That’s it – please try it!
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