Mac Singularity

The iPhone App Store is up - with Astronomy programs

July 10th, 2008 by Marcos

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 web site

Hmm, this is disappointing. […]

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OS X’s Birthday

March 24th, 2008 by Marcos

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 going and clearly it’s been […]

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Some more notes on Leopard

November 26th, 2007 by Marcos

Juan Cabanela writes of his Leopard upgrade. Of particular note, there’s a beta of ds9 that seems to play nicer with the way the DISPLAY variable in X11 in Leopard.

Also, for people interested in patching X11 to the latest updates ahead of Apple’s official deployment via software update there is a “quick […]

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Apple’s X11 User Mailing list

November 1st, 2007 by Marcos

You can subscribe and look at the archives to Apple’s X11 User’s mailing list here. Ben Byer has been doing some heroic all hours work to try and fix some problems in X11 in Leopard, mostly from switching code bases and other issues. It’s pretty impressive to see Apple’s staff interacting directly with […]

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Leopard Roundup

October 29th, 2007 by Marcos

Ok, so I’ve obviously been doing a lot of Leopard posts. I’ll try to round things up here.

I should say that if you’re upgrading, uninstall unsanity’s “application enhancer” and be advised that it may be installed by some other utility you use - I think it appears as a preference pane if it’s installed. […]

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Leopard is coming

October 24th, 2007 by Marcos

I’ll be trying out Leopard on my Macbook and seeing how nice it plays with IRAF, IDL etc this weekend.

You can buy Leopard from Amazon using my affiliate links and, to borrow a term from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, make me rich. Amazon’s price is actually better than the higher educational price (which is […]

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The magic of SSH port forwarding

June 15th, 2007 by Marcos

The problem - your department’s network won’t let you ssh or connect directly to your work Mac, you can only ssh to one special computer, and then from there you can ssh to your Mac. But, you’d like to be able to use Apple file sharing or sftp directly to your work Mac.

Well, SSH […]

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