Archive for September, 2005

Finding the right reference/bibliographic tool | fauskes.net

Finding the right reference/bibliographic tool | fauskes.net

Many people use MS Word, even though Word is not well suited for writing scientific papers and technical reports. Most of the commercial bibliographic software can easily be integrated with MS Word. However, for me it is more important to have BibTeX support than a nifty Word plug-in.

A useful read if you are doing any type of writing…

New Mandragora MP3s!

Mandragora Tango Orchestra just released some new free tango mp3s.

Onlife

Onlife is a strange little application that logs your use of your mac, archives what you do and so on. I don’t know if this is good, privacy issues are important as well - but journalling and log keeping is good, too.

Now if it would be more useful and could track more apps - it might even be useful for tracking client’s projects and billing etc.

Gotta watch its progress and applicability.

NMR Software for MacOSX

The NMR processing software RMN is now available as an alpha version for MacOSX.

iTunes 5 - GUI

Apple has done it again. This is the new look, possibly for all other iLife apps, Safari and all other brushed metal apps? What may look cool might become stale pretty soon. Inconsistencies in Apple’s GUI design have been appearing for years now - long gone are the days where all apps were equal; where is the updated Human Interface Guideline? Does Apple still adhere to its own standards?

Somehow I am always stunned by Apple’s fresh design whenever they change things. It still looks a lot better than anything else - and actually there is no alternative. But I am getting annoyed at the inconsistency as well as the diversity within Apple’s own product portfolio. Change is good, but a lack of focus and direction is not.