Favorite Places on the Internet

My Online Documents

SKY References (PDF format ... you may have to enable web links within Acrobat)
Multi-Probe Microscopy application note (.zip of Microsoft Word doc, 880 pages ... save some trees by reading e-version).
Using Microsoft Outlook For Time Reporting (Word doc) (Image Core Time Management)
Adobe Photoshop Tips and Microscopy Tips (Word doc)

Note: if left clicking the link above does not open the file, please right click on the file and use Save Target As... to save the file to your computer. You can then scan the doc for computer viruses (I routinely scan these files with Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, but you should too -- better safe than sorry), and finally open it in Word or Adobe Acrobat/Acrobat Reader.

Documents and web site are Copyright © 2000-2007 George McNamara

Frequently Used Sites

Google www.google.com
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Google Maps http://maps.google.com
Google Book http://books.google.com/books?q=fluorescence+spectra&hl=en
Google News http://news.google.com
MSNBC News http://www.msnbc.msn.com
NCBI PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ (17,000+ free books online)
Amazon http://www.amazon.com

UC Davis Medical Center Stem Cell Program Feature http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ucdavismedicine/features/1.html
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles www.chla.org
Childrens World (CHLA Intranet) http://cw.org (sorry, on campus only)
CHLA web site http://chla.usc.edu/
CHLA Saban Research Institute [Saban]
Image Core - CHLA Congressman Dixon Cellular Imaging Core Intranet Site (http://shelia/image sorry, on campus only)
Public Medline USC links http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=uscnmlib
JStor free (for academics) online access to old contents of Science, PNAS and more www.jstor.org
Cancer Genome Anatomy Project www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgap
Molecular Expressions - Microscopy primer at FSU http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html
AltaVista search engine www.altavista.com
Applied Spectral Imaging www.spectral-imaging.com
SKY Users Group (I'm the moderator), www.egroups.com

Imaging Companies

Aperio Technologies (Dirk Soenksen, a former boss) www.aperiotech.com or www.aperio.com
Applied Spectral Imaging Inc (SKY spectral imaging system) www.spectral-imaging.com
Compix www.cimaging.net ... SimplePCI software
Diagnostic Instruments (cameras, adapters) www.diaginc.com (qualitative imaging only)
Fovea Pro 3.0 and Optipix 2.0 (Adobe Photoshop plugins) http://www.reindeergraphics.com/products.shtml
Hamamatsu (cameras) http://usa.hamamatsu.com/systems.htm
Photometrics (cameras) http://www.photomet.com
Andor (cameras) http://www.andor.com
EMCCD.com http://www.emccd.com (Andor sponsored electron multiplying CCD website) EMCCD Symposium 2 (2005)
Intelligent Imaging Innovations Inc. www.intelligent-imaging.com ... SlideBook software
Lizard Technologies DjVu and MrSIR www.lizardtech.com
Optronics (cameras) http://www.optronics.com/
Scanalytics (software) www.scanalytics.com
Triptar Lens Company (Alan Krisiloff, OptiGrid) http://www.triptar.com/
Universal Imaging Corp. (MetaMorph, MetaFluor, MetaGFP) www.image1.com
Where?Media enterprise image database www.wheremedia.com (defunct 2006)
Xenogen Corp. (IVIS 3D) http://www.xenogen.com Xenogen 3D and 3D IVIS small animal imaging systems
Lightools Research http://www.lightools.com John Fox small animal fluorescence imaging, including Pan-A-See-Ya
Lightform Inc http://www.lightforminc.com/PARISSHowTo.html Jeremy Lerner's PARISS imaging spectrometer
Micro-Manager for ImageJ http://micro-manager.org/ open source software for controlling automated microscopes, cameras and imaging accessories (many drivers developed by Ron Vale's lab, UCSF; open source SDK for researchers and companies to develop more drivers).
ImageJ http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ (free imaging software - Java based successor to NIH Image)

Local Microscope Dealers (Southern California)

A.G. Heinze www.agheinze.com (Nikon dealer)
McBain Instruments www.mcbaininstruments.com (Leica, Compix, Hamamatsu, Diaginc, etc., dealer)
Scientific Instrument Company http://www.simicroscopes.com/ (Sunnyvale headquarters; Culver City for L.A. region).
(Zeiss sells direct).

National/International Microscope Companies

Leica Microsystems (Leica DMRXA, MZ FL III, etc) www.leica-microsystems.com
Leica confocal microscopy www.confocal-microscopy.com
Nikon Inc. www.nikonusa.com
Olympus http://www.olympusamerica.com (click here for USA dealers)
Carl Zeiss www.zeiss.com

Member of Societies

American Association for the Advancement of Science www.aaas.org
Histochemical Society (you stain 'em, we'll publish 'em) www.hcs.microscopy.com
International Society for Analytical Cytology (flow jockeys) www.isac.org
Microscopy Society of America (MSA) www.msa.org
National Society for Histotechnology www.nsh.org
Royal Microscopical Society (much more fun than MSA!) http://www.rms.org.uk/ -- RMS Handbooks
Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/

Other Societies

International Society for Analytical and Molecular Morphology www.isamm.org or www.ismm.org
The Nature Conservancy http://nature.org/
Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org

Cool Sites

GFP Symposium 1999 (Green Fluorescent Protein) http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~crebb
Antibody Resources http://www.antibodyresource.com
(see mpmicro for a list of antibody companies)
Biowire (they sent me a free laser pointer for joining - thanks) www.biowire.com
Wayne Fulton's A Few Scanning Tips (web site and book) www.scantips.com (buy the book)
Jerry Sedgewick's Quick Photoshop for Research www.imbuedesign.com (buy the book)

Geo's Favorite Utilities

X1 search www.x1.com (Windows program that indexes ALL text on Windows PC - including PDF, DOC, XLS)
Un-Scan-It 6.0 http://www.silkscientific.com/ graph digitization software (used extensively for PubSpectra)
CutePDF http://www.cutepdf.com/ (free PDF writer that prints to PDF in Windows XP64, unlike Adobe Acrobat)
Undelete http://www.undelete.com/file-recovery.asp
Hamrick VueScan http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html inexpensive but very good scanner software.
LaserSoft SilverFast Ai http://www.silverfast.com expensive (but good) scanner software
Geo EXE programs (download zip from here) including math.exe walk.exe (only works in DOS and Windows 32 (not XP64 or Vista64)
VMware Workstation http://www.vmware.com/download/ (virtualization software) (run Geo's EXE's in Win2000 under WinXP)
Free Pascal http://www.freepascal.org/ open source Pascal compiler, compatible with Turbo Pascal code.

This page was last updated on 12/10/06.