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Antony Williams has written an article for Chemistry World on the way that chemistry is being displayed on mobile platforms.

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.org X Window System that runs on Mac OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5.

X11 2.5.0
Released: 2010.03.29

Thee first demo of a chemistry application on the iPad. It has been built using JSDraw from Chemene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7XcQV5Z9I8

There has been considerable discussion on the Cambridgesoft forums about a number of problems for users that have arisen with the upgrades to both the Mac OS X operating system and the latest version of ChemBioDraw. One of the major problems that is that when a structure is pasted into another application, for example a word processing application, the resulting embedded structure cannot be copied and pasted back into ChemBioDraw and edited.

Author: Charles Parnot

In March 2009, a post on MacResearch attempted to prophesy Apple's response to netbooks. Quite incredibly, the 1-year old post now reads as a pretty accurate description of the iPad. There was no scientific method involved, just a handful of educated guesses and a few hints from the rumor mill. As it turns out, this was tasseography at its best (or its worst?).

There is no mystery today: iPad is Apple's answer to netbooks (though it goes way beyond that). It was announced two months ago, anybody can already take a guided tour and soon, anybody will be able to finally touch one.

To celebrate, let's revisit these predictions and see what was right, what was wrong, and why.

Now that I have your attention...

We're looking for original reviews of science applications currently available in the App Store. And to help get this going we'll cover the cost... and then some (see below). This is a great opportunity to try out that app you've been wondering about, but didn't want to fork over the money for just yet. For this undertaking, we want to focus on lesser-know science applications (although any science application that is truly unique or exceptional, may be considered).

Each reviewer will receive a $50 iTunes gift card (US iTunes Store only, upon completion of the review(s)) to offset the cost of the application, with the remainder as a thank you for participating.

Before you get too excited and rush off to write a review, there are some guidelines that need to be followed. Be sure to read them carefully.

In 'Showcase' reviews, the reviewer is the developer. No claim of objectivity is made. It’s a chance for the developer to show off his/her app. Here, Coding Seed discuss the Mac app myPeers.

In this article we present myPeers, a Mac OS X application conceived to help a researcher stay in tune with the latest advances in her research field, and be aware of the new ideas and trends coming across her research community.

The folks at Phusion have created a very nice tutorial that walks you through the steps of creating a Mac OS X application with MacRuby and XCode. I know many people with great ideas for scientific apps that they'd like to implement as native Mac OS X applications, but are somewhat hesitant to dive into the world of Objective-C. This tutorial might give you enough know-how to take make your Mac OS X app idea a reality all from the comfort of the Ruby scripting language.

The importance of High Resolution PFG-NMR data for mixture analysis is steadily increasing but there is no single way to process such data.