Interview with Stefan Eilemann
This is an interview with Stefan Eilemann, Senior Software Engineer and Consultant at Tungsten Graphics, who was running the multimonitor display at WWDC07. Stefan was responsible for porting Chromium to MacOSX, and is now working at Eyescale Software developing and deploying Equalizer, a framework for distributed, scalable graphics software. He also kindly provided the images. What…
New Poll: Social Networking
There seems to have been an explosion in the number of social networking sites, this list of active sites on wikipedia would suggest many people use these tools. These range from the business oriented to others catering for music, movies, students etc. but which do you use most often? Please use the…
Tutorial: Performance and Time.
Before continuing with the performance tutorial (which I promise will start back up very soon), there is one important topic to discuss; specifically, timing routines. In order to have an understanding of how changes in code affect performance you need to have a metric of sort (you all know this,…
USB or Ethernet Data Acquisition for OSX not from N.I.?
USB or Ethernet Data Acquisition for OSX not from N.I.? By PeterG at Tue, Oct 17 2006 4:00pm | General Discussion Does anyone know of a *good* working USB or Ethernet based data acquisition device that works under OSX *AND* has driver level support for C++?. We just had an…
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…
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