http://macsingularity.org IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:04:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, this new site I found the other day - Astro Better is what this site should be. That is, they have multiple people contributing, they post about IDL, IRAF, and various tips. It's actually updated more than every 3 months. The future of this site remains ... http://macsingularity.org/2009/06/03/astro-better-and-the-future-of-mac-singularity/ Well, I'm way late to the game on this, but our long national nightmare is over - Xquartz for Leopard support full screen! Check out the latest version - 2.3.1 - at MacosForge. http://macsingularity.org/2009/03/27/x11-supports-full-screen/ My friend and colleague Dan Kocevski has written ArXivReader, a $0.99 app that lets you browse and search the Arxiv preprint server, and importantly save any PDFs you find to the iPhone for offline reading later. So, if you've got a dollar to spare, and you read pre-prints regularly, go try ... http://macsingularity.org/2009/02/18/arxivreader-for-the-iphone/ I realize it's been a long time since I've posted. Also, I haven't updated say, the STSDAS installer to the latest version. Though, I haven't heard much clamor for updated installers (I usually do update them when someone emails me about it.) In any event, perhaps there just hasn't ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/11/20/im-still-alive/ iLounge has a good review of all the various iPhone programs that allow you to upload and view supported file types. These are typically PDF, images, Office and iWork documents. One could upload a PDF of a journal article or preprint to read on the plane or train ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/08/28/iphone-file-viewing-apps/ A friend recently needed a Fortran compiler, and I pointed her to the useful high performance computing. However, things didn't work and that's because the program also needed to Apple's developer tools - which include a compiler, etc. - to install properly. Xcode is usually included somewhere when you buy ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/08/27/installing-xcode/ So, I do have an iPhone, and I can't wait for the App store. If you have iTunes 7.7, then you can browse the store. I found this neat looking program, called Starmap. Looks pretty handy - you can read more about it at its ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/07/10/the-app-store-is-up-but-no-iphone-20-software-yet/ So, I'm returning to DC from the AAS today (a bit earlier than some). I found something interesting - the Boingo-run wifi hotspots at the St. Louis airport offer 15 free minutes to iPhone users, if you watch an ad. What I discovered is 2 things: They ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/06/02/wifi-trick-at-the-st-louis-airport/ The PDF tracking software Papers is now up to version 1.8. It includes support for NASA ADS and other search engines and I have mentioned it in the past now and then. This update to 1.8 may have happened some time ago, but the program continues to be improved and ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/04/29/papers-updated/ Macworld | Editors' Notes | OS X turns VII - Yes I bought OS X 10.0, and no I couldn't do much of anything with it - it was too slow. When 10.1 came out a few weeks later though, you could definitely sense the way the Mac was ... http://macsingularity.org/2008/03/24/os-xs-birthday/