2009

Royal Society of Chemistry Sponsor

7 December 2009

For the third year running we sponsored the Royal Society of Chemistry's Solid-State Chemistry Group, at their Christmas meeting in Milton Keynes, UK.

Exhibition in Boston

1 December

We showed off our latest software at the Materials Research Society's 2009 Fall Exposition in Boston, MA. This was our sixth visit to MRS, and one of our most successful exhibitions. Attendees were wowed by the colour 3D graphics, beautifully rendered on our new 27-inch widescreen iMac display.

We Support Windows 7

29 October 2009

We are delighted to announce that the latest versions of CrystalMaker, CrystalDiffract and SingleCrystal all run on Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system.

Welcome to Snow Leopard

28 August 2009

Our current Mac software runs natively on Apple's latest operating system, running on Intel processors and supporting the latest system technologies.

CrystalMaker Conjours 3D Colour Graphics

12 May

Major new versions of CrystalMaker for Mac and Windows feature spectacular "out-of-the-screen" 3D graphics - now in colour!

Exhibition in Glasgow

5 May

We travelled to Glasgow ("Scotland with Style") and exhibited at the 2009 Pharmaceutical Powder X-ray Diffraction Symposium (PPXRD) - an event sponsored by the International Centre for Diffraction Data.

Exhibition in San Francisco

14 April

We exhibited at the Materials Research Society's Spring National Exposition in San Francisco.

Continued Support for UK Crystallography

2 January

For the fourth year running we are sponsoring the British Crystallographic Association, as a 2009 Corporate Member. We also supported the association by exhibiting at their Spring meeting, held at the University of Loughborough, in Eastern England.

2008

Sponsorship for Royal Society of Chemistry Solid State Group

8 December

For the second year running, we sponsored the Royal Society of Chemistry's Solid State Group, at its annual meeting, held at the University of Southampton.

Exhibition in Boston

5 December

We exhibited at the Materials Research Society's Fall National Exposition in Boston, MA.

CrystalMaker 2.1 for Windows

25 August

Major new versions of CrystalMaker and SingleCrystal for Windows deliver live rotation of diffraction patterns, support for new file formats - and a great new interface.

Exhibition in Philadelphia

23 May

CrystalMaker Software Ltd exhibited at the American Chemical Society's 2008 Fall Meeting, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CrystalMaker 8.1 for Mac

9 May

This major new version of CrystalMaker features a live-rotation link with SingleCrystal, support for ATOMS, Molfile and SDfile formats, new best-fit plane calculation - with easy angle measurement, and much more. Even better - it's free to registered CrystalMaker 8.0 users.

Flexible, Low-Cost Site Licensing

18 April

We announce the launch of a new site licensing scheme that offers unprecedented flexibility - and low cost.

Exhibition at the University of York

1 April

We were proud to be a supporter and exhibitor at the British Crystallographic Association's 2008 Spring Meeting, held at the University of York, in Northern England.

CrystalMaker features on MacBreak

22 February

Kiki Sanford interviews David Palmer for Macbreak, at the CrystalMaker Software booth, during Macworld 2008. Watch it in high-definition video...

Exhibition at MRS in San Francisco

22 January

The new CrystalMaker was prominently displayed at the MRS Spring Meeting 2008 in San Francisco.

CrystalMaker 2.0 for Windows

8 January

CrystalMaker for Windows receives a major overhaul, with a sleek new interface, including window sidebar and re-engineered Overview palette. Key new features include depth profiling as well as the 100-or-so new features shared by the new Mac version.

CrystalMaker 8.0 for Leopard and Tiger

7 January

This brand new version of CrystalMaker sports a new interface, and over 100 new features. Some of the most significant of these are dynamical visualization of crystal structures, animation, instant movie generation, full-screen working, supercells and automatic label positioning. Mac fans will be pleased to find support for new system technologies such as Cover Flow, Quick Look and Spotlight.

CrystalMaker stars at Macworld Expo!

3 January

Following our recent Apple Design Award, we were invited to exhibit the brand new CrystalMaker 8.0 at Macworld.

Continued Support for UK Crystallography

2 January

For the third year running we are providing financial support to the British Crystallographic Association, as a 2008 Corporate Member.

2007

Royal Society of Chemistry Sponsorship

20 December

We are pleased to have been able to support the recent Royal Society of Chemistry Solid State Group meeting, held at the University of Durham.

Materials Research in Boston

28 September

We exhibited at the Materials Research Society's Fall National Meeting 2007 in Boston, MA.

Exhibition at ACS Fall Meeting

22 August

We exhibited at the American Chemical Society's Fall National Meeting, held in the sparkling new Boston Convention Center in the Waterfront District.

CrystalMaker Sponsors Frontiers Meeting

25 June

We are proud to have been a major sponsor of the recent "Frontiers in Mineral Sciences" convention, in Cambridge, England: the first joint assembly of the Mineralogical Societies of America, Canada, Great Britain and France.

SingleCrystal Receives Apple Design Award

18 June

SingleCrystal 1.3 has been selected for an Apple Design Award, as runner-up for the Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution. Awards were presented at WWDC07 in San Francisco.

Exhibition at BCA Spring Meeting

15 April

We attended the British Crystallographic Assocation's Spring National Meeting, as both an exhibitor and a Corporate Member. We enjoyed meeting so many delegates, both at our exhibition stand, and informally.

Exhibition at Materials Research Society

27 March

We exhibited at the Materials Research Society's 2007 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Apple "Inside the Image" with CrystalMaker

23 March

CrystalMaker features on the Apple website in an illustrated article about the crystal structure of the zeolite mineral "faujasite". Read more about the visualization capabilities of CrystalMaker-for-Mac...

Welcome to Vista!

22 February

We are pleased to announce that all CrystalMaker Software products now run on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system!

CrystalMaker Supports UK Crystallography

26 January

We are pleased to continue our sponsorship of the British Crystallographic Assocation, as a 2007 Corporate Member.

SingleCrystal for Windows

02 January

Our Windows lineup is now complete as SingleCrystal 1.0 rolls off the production line, hand-in-hand with its sister product, SingleCrystal 1.3 for Mac OS X (Universal Binary).

2006

CrystalMaker Birthday Update

11 December

Major new versions of CrystalMaker for Mac and Windows are released, with free updates available to licensed users.

Happy Birthday CrystalMaker!

23 November

CrystalMaker recently celebrated its 12th birthday and we take the opportunity to look back at the past twelve years...

CrystalMaker in San Francisco!

18 September

We exhibited at the American Chemical Society's Fall meeting, in San Francisco, CA - as special guests of Apple Computer, Inc.

SingleCrystal 1.2

21 August

A major new version of our single-crystal diffraction program lets you compare simulated patterns with observed images with drag-and-drop ease! The stereogram can now show symmetry-relations, with display of planes and zone axes, plus much more.

We Accept Euros!

17 July

Ordering CrystalMaker products is now easier, with a choice of three major currencies for payment: U.S. Dollars, British Pounds Sterling and now Euros.

New Address

17 July

We have moved to new offices on the Oxford University Begbroke Science Park. Our telephone and fax numbers have also changed.

Building Cage Structures with CrystalMaker

23 June

An illustrated tutorial, demonstrating the use of CrystalMaker's Make Polyhedron command, for visualizing large zeolite or buckyball "cages" in polyhedral mode.

CrystalDiffract for Windows

24 April

Our x-ray/neutron powder diffraction software is now available for Windows XP/Vista, providing interactive simulation and analysis of diffraction experiments.

CrystalMaker in Atlanta and Lancaster

11 April

CrystalMaker was exhibited at the American Chemical Society National Convention in Atlanta, GA - followed closely afterwards by an exhibition at the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting in Lancaster, England.

CrystalMaker Goes Universal

06 February

CrystalMaker 7.1 completes our triumvirate of Universal Binary applications. Major new features include depth profiling, multiple graphics formats for high-resolution output, auto-update checking and more...

CrystalMaker Sponsors the BCA

26 January

CrystalMaker Software Ltd is very proud to sponsor the British Crystallographic Association (BCA), as one of their 2006 Corporate Members. A registered charity, the BCA shares the same fundamental goal as CrystalMaker Software Ltd: to make crystallography more accessible to the wider public...

New Year Brings Major Diffraction Upgrades

03 January

Fresh for 2006 are two upgraded diffraction programs. SingleCrystal 1.1 features automatic update notification, thermal ellipsoid support, improved Stereogram drawer and an all-new user's guide. CrystalDiffract 5.1 has powerful new data browsers, with the ability to export custom-sorted datasets - and much more...

2005

Auto-Update for Pro Digital Video

24 November

We continue to update CrystalMaker-for-Windows, now featuring digital video recording, auto-generation of QTVR objects - plus auto update checking...

Thermal Ellipsoids Feature in Windows Update

03 October

A mega update brings a whole slew of new features and improvements to our Windows version of CrystalMaker.

CrystalMaker 7 for Mac OS X

11 July

After nearly three years of development, CrystalMaker 7 for Mac OS X provides spectacular new features including massive-structures visualization, display of thermal ellipsoids, custom-defined polyhedra - and a whole host of user interface and usability improvements.

CrystalMaker in Florida

08 June

CrystalMaker Software Ltd exhibited at the American Crystallographic Association's National Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

CrystalMaker Cross-Platform Upgrades

12 April

CrystalMaker Software Ltd have launched a new, cross-platform upgrade scheme. Users of the Mac version of CrystalMaker can now purchase a full copy of the new Windows XP version (and vice versa) - at a major discount!

CrystalMaker for Windows

05 April

After ten years confined to the Mac platform, our software crosses the great platform divide - now available for Windows XP.

CrystalMaker in San Diego

21 February

CrystalMaker Software Ltd exhibited at the American Chemical Society's Spring National Exposition. Some spectacular software was demonstrated, running on the latest, cool hardware from Apple.

CrystalDiffract: Very Versatile Visualization

18 January

Three years after the launch of the last version, CrystalDiffract 5.0 delivers the biggest improvements yet with amazing versatility and endless customization...

SingleCrystal Now Shipping

10 January

The full version of our single-crystal diffraction program provides unprecedented real-time simulation of diffraction patterns, reciprocal lattice sections and stereographic projections - with PDF graphics export...

2004

"Tweezer" Molecule Visualized

02 December

CrystalMaker provides stunning visualization of novel tweezer molecule, used in sequence analysis.

CrystalMaker wins eCommerce Award

17 September

CrystalMaker Software Ltd has won the 2004 South East England "eTrading" award, part of the UK regional eCommerce awards.

Explore The Elements

02 August

Latest versions of CrystalMaker provide preset atomic, ionic and covalent radii sets, extensive customizability - and some beautifully-rendered Periodic Tables to download.

CrystalMaker at American Chemical Society

18 March

CrystalMaker Software Ltd exhibited their software products at the American Chemical Society's Spring National Meeting, in Anaheim, CA.

Mega Structures Library

15 February

CrystalMaker user Dr Yoshitaka Matsushita has released an all-encompassing "Chalcogenide" crystal structures library with nearly 10,000 structures - all in CrystalMaker binary format.

New Year - New Address

05 January

We've moved to new offices, at the Oxford University Begbroke Science Park. Check out our new contact details.

2003

CrystalMaker 6.3: Power Tools and Shortcuts

20 October

CrystalMaker 6.3 provides new tools, improved interface and menu layout, keyboard shortcuts - and a link to our SingleCrystal.

SingleCrystal: Public Beta 1

20 October

A new program for exploring single-crystal diffraction and the reciprocal lattice - in real time. A time-limited (free) public beta version is now available - and we welcome your feedback!

User Forum Goes Live

25 July

CrystalMaker and CrystalDiffract users now have their own user forum: a place to share ideas, find answers to questions, and develop a sense of community.

Teaching Science with CrystalMaker

17 July

The new "Teaching Science" section provides a background to CrystalMaker, with advice and suggestions as to how the program might be used in teaching science. Some cool embedded movies are also included.

New Website Design

17 July

We have relaunched the CrystalMaker website, with a clean new design incorporating easier navigation, extensively-revised content and even a search command.

CrystalMaker 6.2 is Fully Annotated

09 June

CrystalMaker 6.2 includes professional-quality annotation with Unicode-savvy extended textboxes, new line and scalebar objects, plus live selection and resizing.

New User's Guide Published

05 May

The 4th edition of CrystalMaker's User Guide has been published.

CrystalDiffract 4.1

06 March

Major update brings drag-and-drop ease to mixture simulation, plus colourful peak overlay options, intelligent parameter control and instant startup.

CrystalMaker 6.1.1 Powers Ahead

21 February

Powerful new versions of CrystalMaker provide killer features: auto format recognition and drag-and-drop opening of database files, plus support for multi-structure CIF files, mouse wheel structure control and dynamical menus.

CrystalMaker Gets Perfect Score!

21 January

CrystalMaker 6.0.2 has been awarded a perfect, 5-mouse rating, by Macworld magazine (USA). Writing in the February 2003 issue, reviewer Charles Seiter praised the software for its ease-of-use, great performance and excellent use of OS X features.

2002

CrystalMaker 6 for Mac OS X

24 September

The most exciting release so far: a new version built exclusively for Mac OS X. Using new system technologies including Carbon Events and the Mach-O runtime model, CrystalMaker 6 gives you a whole new dimension in crystal visualization.

CrystalMaker 5.1

07 April

The latest update to our crystal structures software includes significant improvements to the interface and new functionality.

CrystalDiffract 4 for Mac OS X

23 February

A major new release of our powder diffraction software, built exclusively for Mac OS X with advanced new interface and usability features - plus the ability to save entire diffraction experiments and boost your productivity!

2001

CrystalMaker Wins Eddy Award

11 December

CrystalMaker 5 has been selected as one of the best Science/Engineering programs of the year, as part of the Macworld Editors' Choice 2001 awards.

CrystalMaker 5

27 August

After two years of development time, completely rewritten using the latest "C" compilers, and our most powerful version so far.

CrystalDiffract 3.1

27 August

New interface, reduced memory requirements, CrystalMaker 5 support - with import of site occupancies - and a second edition of the user's guide.

CrystalMaker 4.1.4

11 May

Further improvements - and free updates.

Palladium Nanoclusters Captured by CrystalMaker

12 February

Spectacular images of a remarkable nano-sized palladium cluster have recently been published.

2000

CrystalMaker 4.1

20 September

Major upgrade brings JPEG graphics export, automatic web page creation and detailed analysis of local site environment. Available as a free update to CrystalMaker 4.0 customers!

Oz Soils Come Alive With CrystalMaker

19 September

Interactive "Soil Science" CD-ROM uses CrystalMaker multimedia to teach clay structure and minerals.

CrystalMaker 4 Wins Critical Acclaim

07 April

CrystalMaker 4 reviewed by Macworld.com, receives lavish praise for outstanding photo-realistic graphics, ease-of-use and the printed user's guide.

New Multi-User Licence Scheme Announced

15 February

Is your group getting the most out of CrystalMaker licensing?

CrystalMaker Multimedia wins EuroPrix

12 February

Starring role for Open University flagship geology course.

CrystalDiffract 3 launched

09 January

The program has been redesigned to make x-ray and neutron powder diffraction easy and fun! A new "Professional Edition" brings experimental data analysis too.

1999

CrystalMaker 4.0 Power Features

14 August

The new CrystalMaker is much more than just a pretty face. We take a look at some of the key features behind the biggest-ever upgrade.

CrystalMaker 4 released at IUCr congress

12 August

We were there to celebrate in style on the banks of the River Clyde in the heart of Glasgow.

CrystalMaker at Natural History Museum

Multimedia showcase in London's new multi-million pound gallery.

CrystalMaker Powers Web Elements

Another example of CrystalMaker on the web: Mark Winter's encyclopaedic resource uses first-class crystal graphics.

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