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Chemene JSDraw - A Javascript Chemical Structure Editor/Viewer

Chemene JSDraw brings chemistry capabilities to your web pages. Read More...
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New Fortran Book

Fortran remains the programming language of choice for many involved in developing high performance code for scientific applications so you might be interested to know that Drew McCormack has just published a new book Scientific Software Development in Fortran. Read More...
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PubChem Sketcher

The PubChem structure editor Read More...
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WebMo Update

WEBMO VERSION 10.0 RELEASED Read More...
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AMBERTools 1.3 Available

AmberTools 1.3 is now available Read More...
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AMBER on Macintosh

I just noticed that the AMBER on Macintosh page has been updated. Read More...
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Applescript Resources

A few new resources. Read More...
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Scientific Programming Course

EMBO Practical Course : Scientific Programming and Data Visualisation Read More...
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mMass Updated

The Open Source Mass Spectrometry tool mMass has been updated and now has a new website. Read More...
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MacResearch Site Content

Dave on MacResearch has written an article highlighting ways in which users can contribute to the site. Read More...
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Data Analysis Tools

Updated the page of Data Analysis tools Read More...
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UCSF Chimera Updated

A new production release of UCSF Chimera (version 1.4) is now available. Download is free for noncommercial use. The download includes full documentation and tutorials. Read More...
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MOE updated

Chemical Computing Group Inc. (CCG) has just announced the general release of the 2009.10 version of the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE).   Read More...
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APBS 1.2.1 has been released

APBS 1.2.1 has been released.  This is a bugfix release specifically aimed at addressing a problem with certain nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. Read More...
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Computational Chemistry Scripts

A collection of Computational Chemistry scripts Read More...
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Possible Books for Christmas

A collection of possible books for Christmas with links to Amazon. Read More...
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KNIME Desktop for Mac OS X

  • Highly experimental version of KNIME 2.1 released for Mac OS X.
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Black Friday Sale at AppleStore

Black Friday Sale at AppleStore Read More...
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APBS Update

Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (APBS) -- Software for evaluating the electrostatic properties of nanoscale biomolecular systems Read More...
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Software platform virtualization in chemistry research

Use of virtualization in the chemistry laboratory. Read More...
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Which Mac OSX version do scientists use

Comparison of the version of Mac OS X used by scientists with that used globally. Read More...
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OpenMM released

Version 1.0beta of OpenMM has been released, a library which provides tools for modern molecular modeling simulation.
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BBEdit Update

BBEdit 9.3 update is available. Read More...
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ChemBioDraw Update

ChemBioDraw Update from CambridgeSoft. Read More...
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Top MacInChem Searches

Top search terms used on MacInChem. Read More...
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Changes to Spotlight indexing

It seems that with the Snow Leopard update there have been some changes to the way that Spotlight detects and indexes text files, this causes problems if you have large text files that don’t need to be indexed. Read More...
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XplorSeq

XplorSeq is a software package that facilitates the compilation, management and phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences Read More...
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Turbomole Updated

Version (6.1) of Turbomole, one of the fastest and most stable quantum chemistry programs, has just been released. Read More...
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Applescript tutorial 11, Using GeekTool

Applescript tutorial 11, Using GeekTool. Read More...
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Added Libint

Libint:- Functions to compute two body integrals Read More...
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OrChem

OrChem - An open source chemistry search engine for Oracle Read More...
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New iNMR Guide

iNMR visual user guide update Read More...
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Mac Mini Server

The new Mac Mini Server slips under the radar. Read More...
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Avogadro 1.0 Released

Avogadro 1.0 a free, open source, cross-platform molecular editor has been released. Read More...
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VMWare Fusion

I see the new version of VMWare Fusion is now available for pre-order. Read More...
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Absoft Fortran Compiler

Absoft today released Pro Fortran v11.0 for Mac OS X/Intel Read More...
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Mendeley

Added Mendeley to the list of Reference Management Applications. Read More...
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KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel

KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel is a knowledge mining tool that works with data stored in Microsoft Excel Read More...
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Grand Central Dispatch in FreeBSD

It was reported at EuroBSDCon 2009 at Robinson College Cambridge that Grand Central Dispatch has been ported to FreeBSD. Read More...
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OpenCL

The latest OpenCL tutorial is on MacResearch Read More...
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Which TV to buy

I have to replace our aging TV. After looking around I was wondering about the Toshiba Regza 42AV635DB.
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Reference Management Updates

Snow Leopard and reference management applications compatibility. Read More...
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Please complain

A list of issues using ChemBioDraw 12 under Mac OS X, please use the link to the forum to register your concern. Read More...
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RED

R.E.D. allows computational biologists involved in AMBER/GAFF, CHARMM, GLYCAM & OPLS force field based biological studies to automatically derive highly effective and reproducible charge values, and to build force field libraries for new molecules and molecular fragments. Read More...
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Mac, iPhone, Safari Market Share

Market Share data for Mac, iPhone and Safari. Read More...
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Zephyr Updated

OpenMM Zephyr is a freely available molecular simulation application with an easy-to-use graphical user interface and GPU-acceleration capabilities Read More...
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Applescript Movie

A training movie describing how to use outlets and actions to connect the interfaces of AppleScript-Cocoa applications under Mac OS X 10.6. Read More...
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OpenCL Q & A

Latest lecture on OpenCL is on MacResearch. Read More...
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ChemMobi:- Chem app for iPhone

Uses Symyx, ChemSpider and Discoverygate webservices to access online chemical information. Read More...
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Distillation Designer

Distillation Designer provides the simple McCabe-Thiele method for designing binary distillation systems. Read More...
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ChemBioDraw 12 Review

Review of ChemBioDraw 12. Read More...
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ChemDoodle Demo

Another expample of the use of ChemDoodle web components. Read More...
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SOMA2

SOMA2 is a web-based molecular modelling environment. Read More...
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Grand Central Dispatch

Grand Central Dispatch now open source and tutorials available.
Grand Central is a new approach to parallelism. It does away with the old threaded models, and replaces it with a packet-based approach. Read More...
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Snow Leopard books etc.

I just got an email message from Amazon highlighting the range of books and software for Snow Leopard, yet more evidence for the increasing popularity of the platform. Read More...
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Aabel Updated

Aabel updated for Snow Leopard Read More...
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OpenCL lecture 3

The third of a series of lectures on programming with OpenCL is available on MacResearch Read More...
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Zem released

Zem molecular editor. Read More...
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New Applications

Aten and SMSD added, Read More...
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OpenCL

Tutorials on the use of OpenCL Read More...
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Chemistry on the iPhone

The ChemDoodle web components display on the iPhone Read More...
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ChemDoodle Web Components

ChemDoodle Web Components pure javascript objects derived from ChemDoodle. Read More...
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Snow Leopard out on Aug 28th

Snow Leopard will be released Aug 28th Read More...
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TINKER has been updated

The molecular modeling package TINKER has been updated (14 Aug)
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X11 for Mac OS X updated

X11 2.4.0 Released: 2009.08.14 Read More...
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Latest iBabel Update

I’ve just released the latest version of iBabel (2.6) Read More...
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Vvidget Updated

Vvidget a chart and graphing system for OS X has been updated. Read More...
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FAF_Drugs2

FAF-Drugs2 This is a package for in silico ADMET filtering Read More...
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Snow Leopard

It is interesting to see all the items appearing on Amazon with the impending Snow Leopard release Read More...
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AMMOS added

AMMOS (Automatic Molecular Mechanics Optimization for in silico Screening) employs an automatic procedure for energy minimization of protein-ligands complexes Read More...
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ChemAxon Updates

Updates to Marvin and JChem. Read More...
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Applescript Resources

I’ve updated the page of Applescript Resources
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Maple Updated

Maple 13 has been updated.

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Equaliser Updated

Equalizer, is the standard middleware to create and deploy parallel OpenGL-based applications

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FITTED has been updated

FITTED has been updated to 2.6.1 and is available for download.

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VMD Updated

The molecular visualisation program VMD has been updated Read More...
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Unix and Perl

Unix and Perl Course Read More...
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Free HPC training courses

High Performance Computing (HPC) courses free for UK researchers Read More...
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WebMo added

Added WebMo a front-end to a range of computational chemistry packages. Read More...
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Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual. Read More...
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Applescript Chemistry Workflow

A chemistry workflow created using Applescript, Chemaxon tools and Aabel. Read More...
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Installing Molden

Step by step instructions for downloading and installing molden. Read More...
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Gabedit added

Added Gabedit a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages to the list of applications Read More...
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Stata 11 released

Stata 11 has been released. Read More...
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Another Application added

The PSI3 suite of quantum chemical programs is designed for efficient, high-accuracy calculations of properties of small to medium-sized molecules. Read More...
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New Applications added

Osra for optical structure recognition and MayChemTools a collection of chemiformatics Perl scripts. Read More...
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The Spectral Game: leveraging Open Data and crowdsourcing for education

Interactive spectroscopy game for undergraduates. Read More...
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Balloon Updated

Balloon a tool for generating 3D structures has been updated. Read More...
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New Applications Added

ORCA (quantum Chemistry), HADDOCK (Molecular Docking). Read More...
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COSMOtherm now available on Mac

COSMOtherm is a program for the quantitative calculation of solvation mixture thermodynamics based on quantum chemistry. Read More...
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Core Plot

Update on Core Plot. Read More...
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AutoDock Vina

AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
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WWDC and Core Plot

Core plot at WWDC
“Core Plot is intended to be a plotting framework for Mac OS X and iPhone OS. The aim is to provide 2D visualization of data, and is tightly integrated with Apple technologies like Core Animation, Core Data, and Cocoa Bindings.”
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LibraryMCS Review

Added LibraryMCS review. Read More...
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ChemAxon User Group Meeting

ChemAxon EU and US user group meetings. Read More...
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Stanford iPhone course downloaded 1 million times.

The Stanford iPhone programming course has now been downloaded from iTunes 1 million times. Read More...
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CrystalMaker Update

CrystalMaker adds much improved 3D graphics in major update. Read More...
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iPhone Development

Offers on iPhone development books. Read More...
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Mac Usage at Universities

I’ve tried to keep a track of the Mac usage at universities and what seems clear is the number of Macs on campus is increasing. Read More...
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CUDA

Cambridge University CUDA course Read More...
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Scientific Programming

WWDC scientific computing. Read More...
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R updated

The statistical programming and plotting library R has been updated. Read More...
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DataGraph 2.0 Update

DataPlot has been updated to version 2.0. Read More...
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SARchitect

SARchitect is a tool for analysing structure activity relationships and ADME/T modeling. Read More...
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Marvin and JChem updates

ChemAxon have announced a couple of updates. Read More...
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NMR Application updated

CARA 1.8.4 has been released for Windows, OSX X86 and Linux Read More...
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Social Networking

MacResearch poll looking at the use of social networks by scientists Read More...
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iPhone Course

Auditors group for the iPhone Application Development course in Stanford. Read More...
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Developers needed

Developers need for project related to the use of the novel technologies in Snow Leopard (including OpenCL and Grand Central) on Nehalem-based Mac Pros to build a Cocoa/Objective C-based large-scale data analysis and visualization application for scientific numerical and image data. Read More...
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iPhone Development

iPhone programing course now online. Read More...
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Apple Refurb Store

Plenty of refurbished machines in the Apple Store. Read More...
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Updates

Free updates to RapidWeaver and VMWare Fusion. Read More...
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University of Virginia Computer Survey

Since 1997 University of Virginia have kept an inventory of the computing ownership. Read More...
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Sweet J

Sweet J, A Desktop Calculator for the Karplus Equation is available Read More...
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MATLAB R2009a beta for 64-bit Intel-based Macs is now available

MathWorks MATLAB R2009a beta for 64-bit Intel-based Macs is now available Read More...
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WWDC09

Apple’s five day Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 takes place on June 8-12 at Moscone West San Francisco, get your ticket by April 24th and save money. Given the huge increase in MacOSX and iPhone development it might be worth booking your slot now, tickets are available from the Apple Online Store.

Remember the WWDC 2009 Student Scholarship provides ADC Student Members and student Team Members in the iPhone Developer University Program the opportunity to get a free pass to attend WWDC.
If you want to submit your application for the 12th Annual Design Awards note the closing date is April 27th.
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Applescript Resources

Applescript Resources for Mac OS X Read More...
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Compounds for iPhone

Compounds for iPhone Read More...
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Chemistry Dictionary

Chemistry dictionary in iWork format. Read More...
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New Mac Pros

New Mac Pros announced by Apple. Read More...
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iBabel 2.6 beta1

I’ve just uploaded the first beta version of the updated iBabel.

You can read about it
here.

All input welcome.
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PC Gamess/Firefly for Mac OS X

As of February 23, 2009, the PC GAMESSFirefly team is proud to announce the availability of the first official release of the PC GAMESS/Firefly package for Mac OS X/Intel platform Read More...
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iBabel rated excellent

iBabel rated excellent Read More...
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New Applications

Balloon creates 3D atomic coordinates from connectivity data.
ShaEP aligns (superimposes) two rigid 3D molecular structure models.
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New Avogadro release

Latest update to Avogadro. Read More...
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Update for Aabel

Update for Aabel Read More...
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Papers for iPhone

Mekentosj today introduced Papers for iPhone and iPod touch. Read More...
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Copy to mobileme

Applescript to copy a file to Mobileme and create an email message with the link. Read More...
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ChemAxon UGM

ChemAxon's 2009 European User Group Meeting Read More...
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StatPlus:mac Updated

AnalystSoft has updated StatPlus:mac adding several new features and graphics. Read More...
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Eurographics 2009

There will be an Equalizer Birds-Of-a-Feather meeting during Eurographics'09. Read More...
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Updates

Mathematica home edition and CLC Main Workbench Read More...
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MOE Update

I’ve just written a review of the latest update to the molecular modeling and cheminformatics package MOE Read More...
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January Market Share

Mac OS X share continues to rise and is now up to 9.9% Read More...
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EnSight

I’ve added EnSight to the list of Data Analysis tools
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iPhone SDK

iPhone SDK has been updated Read More...
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MacBook

White MacBook upgraded. Read More...
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News Updates

A collection of software updates Read More...
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Mac Backup

A brief comparison of different backup options. Read More...
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Update to Mac Usage at Universities

A while back I came across a survey of current and future computer usage from college students, I’ve now updated the table from different universities with data provided by readers. Read More...
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December 2009 Mac OS X Share

The December data from Net Applications is in and the Mac OS X share continues to rise and is now up to 9.6% (MacIntel 7.19%; MacPPC 2.43%). This compares with 7.2% in December 2007 and 5.7% in December 2006, at this rate we may see 10% early in 2009 Read More...
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