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Each day, a researcher has to deal with a lot of data in different formats coming from different sources: measurements, graphs, papers, reviews, web pages, notes, laboratory journals, tables, schemes, pictures etc. The ways all these files are interconnected are usually complex and cannot be easily reflected into the hierarchical…
Restricted SFTP in Mac OS X Leopard
On occasion you may want to exchange data with someone else. You’d like to grant that person access to your system (or network) but in such a way that the person has limited access to other areas of the system (or general resources on your network). This article will show…
Grand Central Dispatch ported to FreeBSD.
A while back Drew McCormack reported that Grand Central Dispatch had been made open source:- “…allowing Grand Central to be ported to other UNIX/Linux systems will encourage its use. Until today, it would have been very unlikely that any new UNIX tools would be developed on Mac OS X using Grand Central,…
Tutorial: AppleScript for Scientists (Part II)
This is the second installment of the Applescript Tutorials for Scientists, one response I got from the first article was to suggest a few reference books or articles. Getting Started with AppleScript is a comprehensive overview of Applescript that is part of the Apple Developers reference library. I’m not sure if you need…
Warning: A nasty data-loss bug when copying between external drives
I have to conclude that if you like your data, you can’t trust it to HFS+ and the Finder. Using 10.5.1., I decided to try to consolidate some backups by moving files from one external drive to a second external drive. The operation would ultimately require movement of about 250GB…
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…
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