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IGOR Pro 6.00 (Mac OS X)

Excellent Software  

In the interest of full disclosure, I know who davidtalaga is, and I have worked with Wavemetrics in the past. I have no affiliation with them now. That said, yes, Igor Pro is a marvelous piece of software. It is well conceived, well implemented and well supported. There is a 99.999% that you will never be limited by Igor capabilities whether you are a statistician, an optical engineer, a doctor, or any kind of scientist. It is absolutely certain that you will not get better documentation and product support from anyone. Equally as certainly, you will not find a better price on any similar package. The R-foundation's R software is free of course, and it offers good documentation, but the learning curve is STEEP. Igor Pro's learning curve is steep, too. So, be forewarned. However, if you do learn to use Igor, you will never need another software to analyze your data or to present your data. Igor does everything from data acquisition, processing of every sort (fitting, image analysis, curve fitting, etc., etc., etc.,) to making spectacularly beautiful graphics that are press ready. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, January 30 2007 @ 02:51 PM PST

NewsFire 1.4 (v69) (Mac OS X)

Yes, Vienna is MUCH better  

I used an early incarnation of Newfire a couple of years ago. Yes, it's beautiful, but yes, functionality is limited. Naturally, it does not export your feeds to opml because it wants to trap you. Then, I discovered RSSOwl (www.rssowl.org) and vienna (http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php) Both are superb. RSSOwl probably offers the most features, but it has a cumbersome java interface. Vienna is pure bliss. Both import/export opml. Both are user friendly, and neither attempts to trap the user. So, bottom line is that if you have a few feeds to manage, then Safari 2.0 is the way to go. It presents feeds beautifully. But, if you have lots of feeds to manage, rssowl and vienna are the top choices. It would be foolish to pay for newsfire. [alert admin]

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Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 11:23 PM PST

Coconut 1.02 (Mac OS X)

A wonderful little App  

The whole Dock Apps Framework is such a great and nifty idea that one wonders why Apple hasn't incorporated it into the OS. First install the Dock Apps Framework Technology (DAFT) from sf.net. Then, install and run Coconut. You see the network data of your choice in the format of your choosing as a beautiful animated dock icon. My only complaint is that this network monitor has a slightly high CPU load, according to the other Dock App Amnesia. Nevertheless, this is a great little program. It's awfully useful. [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 11:59 PM PDT

Amnesia 1.02 (Mac OS X)

Amnesia is lovely  

The whole Dock Apps Framework is such a great and nifty idea that one wonders why Apple hasn't incorporated it into the OS. First install the Dock Apps Framework Technology (DAFT) from sf.net. Then, install and run Amnesia. This lovely program displays your memory usage and CPU usage beautifully in real time as an icon in the Dock. When you enlarge the icon, the animation is enlarged, with no loss of quality or information. It has a trivial memory footprint, it's functional, it's pretty, and, above all, it's useful! [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 11:54 PM PDT

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