Bhavuk Jain Big Payday From Apple Bug Bounty Fund
An enormous security gap was discovered by a bug bounty hunter in India that cost Apple a round sum of…
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Apple Closes Stores Across US Due to Looting Concerns
Due to the current unrest and violent protests in the US, Apple has decided to close some of its stores…
Is Apple Store Open Near Me?
Apple Stores Reopening In Most States The world is gradually coming back to life again after weeks of lockdown as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OpenMacGrid For Mac used for analyzing MRI signals from iron rich brain tissues
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems are capable of safely generating detailed images of the human brain with a rich assortment…
The business models for iPhone applications
[Note: many of the links in this story will open the page for an app in the iTunes Store. I…
New RubyCocoa Release & BridgeSupport
More interesting for MacResearch members may be the new BridgeSupport project, which appears designed to provide better support for scripting bridges to…
Matlab benches for Mac
As I posted a few days ago, I would like to generate a small enquiry about MATLAB performance under Mac OS X….
ChemAxon
As many know I wrote a GUI for the opensource cheminformatic toolkit Openbabel called iBabel. One of the options is to use…
EGO, roundtrip and Linkback
There has been considerable discussion on the Cambridgesoft forums about a number of problems for users that have arisen with…
Security Memory Performance
With help from a friend, Mark Bellon, I ran a wide variety of tests on several different MacPro configurations. These…
Science on a G5/PS3/MacPro – Benchmarks Security
As promised last week, I have here some benchmarks that compare the performance of double-precision floating point operations between a PowerMac (2.5…
MacResearch: Science Related Requests for Apple
Update: The Tri-Cameral meeting starts this Wednesday and to date we’ve only received ~30 responses. This is a perfect opportunity…
‘Molecules’ iPhone App Source Code Available
With the lifting of the iPhone NDA, Brad Larson — developer of the iPhone app ‘Molecules’, a 3D molecular viewer —…
Write a Script to Send Database Query Results to Excel
Viewing database query results in the terminal is fine, but sometimes I need to get the results into Excel quickly…
Automating Remote Data Fetching With Terminal.app: A Practical Example
I always tell people that my favorite aspect of UNIX is the fact that you can quickly and easily string together a…
LAPACK/BLAS from FORTRAN on 10.6
Dear all, since updating to 10.6, I’ve been struggling with strange crashes in connection with LAPACK/BLAS routines used in my…