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January 22, 2010: new release, new terms of use
After many years of Spekwin32 being totally free for everyone, I decided to change the terms of use. The software stays free for non-commercial, private, academic and educational use. However, commercial use requires one-time purchase of a valid licence. Everyone will be able to download the full version of Spekwin32, there are no function or time limits and no nag screens. I want you to use Spekwin32, therefore I don't waste any time and energy with preventing or limiting the use of this software. Commercial users utilizing Spekwin32 permanently are trusted to stay legal and purchase their licence.
There are also new features: there is a "real" installation file finally, you will find new and overworked menu items in the Help menu and there is more general support of csv files. The website somewhat expanded, with new screenshots and extensive contact information and you are invited to join and contribute to the discussion forum.

July 30, 2009: new release
The current release of version 1.71.1 fulfils a long-held wish of a couple of users: reading of all available flavours of PERKIN ELMER spectral sp files. Until now, Spekwin32 could only cope with fully ASCII sp files, now it also works with with fully binary and mixed ASCII/binary types. Please try it out, I didn't have too much test files! Oh, and I'm still on with searching for a new position, see below...

May 23, 2009 job search
I would like to announce that I am searching for a new position (preferably outside of Germany, but inside Europe).
So if you have or know about a well-paid, interesting and demanding R&D position for a person with expert knowledge in in optical spectroscopy, fluorescence, fluorescent dyes and labels, scientific software development, microarrays, microfluidics, PCR, immunoassays, biomedical device and assay development together with 4 years experience in product development in an industrial setting: don't hesitate to contact me. For more details about me please view my XING profile or the more detailed CV.

May 19, 2009: new release
Today's release of version 1.71.0 ist the first release since almost a year. Now that my doctorate is really finished, releases might become more frequent again.
Upon user request, I implemented the ability to read a special flavour of THERMO Galactic's spc file format: multifiles. These files contain a multitude of subspectra in one single file. By the way: there is a good chance for your file format to be implemented, if it's not too exotic and of some general usability.

April 22, 2009: mission accomplished
After publishing my doctoral thesis online, struggling through a lot of forms and questionnaires and having printed some hard copies for the university library, I finally received my "Promotionsurkunde" the official document stating my successfully reached doctoral degree (only a few days after the birth of our third child, a daughter). Now, I am officially allowed to call myself "Dr. Friedrich Menges" :-)) This quest has come to a good end...

February 27, 2009: thesis defence
It's now almost four years since I left university to earn a living for me and my familiy. Today was a great day as my scientific career culminated in today's final thesis defence of my dissertation. Everything went fine, and I will be called a "Doktor" soon.