The Daily Dongle

Ribbons PSA

As new users switch from V9 to Vx, we continue to get the occasional "grumbles, ribbons!" email. Here are some quick and easy ways to get those pixles off your screen, unless you need them. Notice the area circled in red in the screenshot above. if you double click it..... Read more →

Cytometer Prefs and Data Scaling

In FlowJo Vx, by default, we will scale data parameters based on the keywords in your data. In some use cases, FlowJo users wish to alter these scales. We introduced storing these in preferences in V7, but it was done in a global way, meaning if you "tuned" your settings... Read more →

Speed tricks for analyzing Large Data Files

Some flow researchers with large event count files, ask us for tips to speed up the FlowJo analysis. Here are a couple quickies. Preprocessing If the analysis workflow allows it, one can do some pre-processing. In FlowJo, gate on Cells of interest (eliminating debris and doublets), then use the Export... Read more →

OSX 10.8 and zip file blues

if you are on one of them fanshy upgraded OSX 10.8 computers and hit an error about a "corrupted file" when accessing one of our downloads in Zip format, apparently you have to go to Security/Privacy OSX preference panel and click as arrowed below: This will enable your ability to... Read more →

new tricks for site-wide installations

starting with the version mentioned in this post, and any builds that follow, I've put in a convenience for site wide installations of FJ. FlowJo will look at the environment variables: FJSERIALNUMBER FJPROXYPORT FJPROXYHOST and if they have usable values, use them accordingly. This way if you can set these... Read more →

PROXY / FLS users

Some of our users on FLS sites behind a proxy, have discovered a bug, which is fixed in these builds: http://offsite.treestar.com/downloads/proxy/ in short, proxy settings were difficult to retain in preferences, and would have to be renetered, sometimes multiple times. Also, FLS authorization would fail. If you experience such authorization... Read more →