Introducing Remote Activity: Mac-Native Job Monitoring
Around a year ago I decided I would finally bite the bullet and learn Core Data, a relatively new framework for storing data in Cocoa. I find the best way to learn something is to jump in the deep end with a new project, so I thought one up. I…
Three Cool Tools For Mac
There are a few free tools that I want to plug. They are not scientific tools per se, but I find them very useful in my day-to-day operations, and I’m sure others will too. Two of the tools I use when I want to free up disk space: GrandPerspective and Monolingual. The last one…
Apple Adds Support for MathType and EndNote to Pages
Tucked away in Apple’s MacWorld keynote presentation was a little tidbit of particular interest to scientists. After years of waiting, our voices have finally been heard — Pages ‘09 includes support for MathType and EndNote.From Apple’s site: In Pages ’09, you can now create sophisticated equations for research papers, lab reports, and journal…
Performance Tutorial (Part I): Introducing Accelerate
In this series of articles and tutorials I’ll be discussing some of the various technologies and strategies available for increasing the performance of science-related applications. Some of the items that will be discussed are Mac Only (e.g. Accelerate framework) while others will be generally applicable (e.g. OpenMP). Most of the…
Cocoa for Scientists (XXXII): The Physics of Sumos (A Flirtation with iPhone Game Development)
I’ve spent most of my developer life solving scientific problems and developing tools to make people more productive in one way or another. A field of software development with which I have had very little involvement is games development. To be honest, I am not even much of a game player, let alone developer….
Quick Link: VBA Scripting to Return to Office for Mac
For those of you who rely on macro’s in the Office suite of applications, news from the Microsoft BU released today, mentions that VBA support will be added back in when the next version of Office for Mac is released. There is no mention of a date, so it could…
Computing Grid in a Box with an 8-core Mac Pro
Of course an 8-core Mac Pro is nice for “mine is bigger than yours” taunts, however if you’re going to spend the money to buy a machine with 8-cores and 16 GB of RAM you better figure out how you are going to use all that horsepower. In a previous article I…
The Xgrid Tutorials (Part III): Running Batch Jobs
In the first installment of this Xgrid tutorial series, I introduced Xgrid and told you when to use it and how to use it. We used the Terminal to feed Xgrid, one job at a time, and ask the results back, one job at a time. In the second installment, I introduced GridStuffer, a graphical…
3D ChemDoodle Web Components
WebGL has been quickly progressing, and we have been hard at work building our 3D ChemDoodle Web Components. I present the release of ChemDoodle Web Components 3.0, which contain the alpha development versions of the 3D ChemDoodle Web Components. I also discuss some of the programmatic details involved with WebGL and how to obtain…
ChemDoodle Web Components For Mac
Protein Data Bank Demo and Canvas Technology Analysis In this article, I provide some background and analysis of the javascript/Canvas technology along with future prospects followed by a step-by-step walkthrough on how to quickly put together a rich web application with the ChemDoodle Web Components. In the walkthrough, I produce a small…
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