Comments on: Science and Your Mac http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:06:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Floorboard http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29238 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:45:47 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29238 I wondered what is out there to use your mac as a data logger. There is no RS232 (serial port) on my macbook so what hardware is available USB wise, what software goes with the hardware? Will there be an article available soon?

]]> By: madmacmat http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29237 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:31:59 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29237 @Christoph: interesting, what kind of support are You in? I am looking for alternatives for the future since I ain’t a leader character but rather a service guy… PM me about the job You’re doing if You like!

Hey Francisco, You’ll want to read my upcoming reviews of papers (paper bibliography), bookends (citation manager) and Mellel… this is the most amazing combination on the mac that beats word/endnote hands down in my opinion!

Stay tuned!

]]> By: Francisco http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29236 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:12:48 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29236 Hi,

I also use End Note, Parallels with the aim to run Windows XP —> Office 2007 and OmniGraffle. Depending of the situation, Adobe Acrobat 8 for reviewing papers.

Cheers

]]> By: Christoph http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29235 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:50:14 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29235 Hi,

I just discovered this site via Apple’s ADC mailing and hope to read and discuss some interesting topics here.
I have moved from science proper (biochemistry/molecular biology initially, biophysics later) to a support role in scientific computing. While my work is much more techy than madmacmat’s, I like to approach it in a pedestrian way as a matter of course. And at the end of the day I have to explain issues to mostly non-technical scientists, so this helps. While I am not a Mac zealot, maybe not even a true believer, I really like that the Mac just works for both, simple and very complex tasks.
Around here (a private research institute in southern California), we have roughly 40% Macs and growing. It helps that we can get a student discount on all Apple hardware and software at the local university with our work ID. Thanks Apple!

]]> By: madmacmat http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29234 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:58:20 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29234 Hey folks!

Thank You for this WARM welcome! I am excited about having the opportunity to do what I was searching for so desperately when I switched-

@Mike: Now this is interesting! Good to know that there’s already some scientific backup from within the city ;-)… from the prog list you started writing I can tell that You’re in a completely different field of science than I am, I think- as I mentioned, the techy side of science in its extremes is rather enigmatic to me and, if ever, approached from the user point of view. At my faculty, and, as far as I can tell for germany, PCs are still dominating the field while Macs fill niches only (look forward to my next post)- but if You encounter a Mac You have a believer sitting behind it…So thanks again and keep up the spirit- we’re gonna make it!

cheers, mat

]]> By: Patrick http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29233 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:26:15 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29233 I look forward to your articles.

]]> By: Mike Santos http://isource.com/2008/01/27/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29232 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:20:27 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/macs-in-science/science-and-your-mac/#comment-29232 Hi,
I also write for mactropolis! How’s it going? Welcome to the website?
I am also a scientist (PhD student in science). Here at University, Macs are pretty much the norm. Most of the offices use Macs. A lot of science majors/grad students have macs as well.
It’s very hard to do the work that I do with a Windows computer!!!
Programs I mainly use: TERMINAL (great for my Unix applications and programming), Matlab, R (www.r-project.org), etc…).
Anyway, I do hope more and more scientists start using macs in their research! I saw a lot of people at the Macworld who were talking about how great it will be to use the new Macbook air for their field work!
Cheers,

Mike Santos

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