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AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club

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The Web page<br />

Next year, 2010, has been set by the<br />

United Nations as the International Year<br />

of Biodiversity: ‘It is a celebration of life on<br />

earth and of the value of biodiversity for our<br />

lives. The world is invited to take action in<br />

2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth:<br />

biodiversity.’<br />

See for<br />

details.<br />

We’ve been using microscopes for some<br />

three centuries, making it possible to examine<br />

tiny things like plant and animal cells, and<br />

single-celled organisms. Some idea of the<br />

scale of things is shown on where you can zoom in on a range of<br />

things, animate and inanimate.<br />

Setting mathematical equations is a<br />

common task in scientific publication, and<br />

packages like FrameMaker are adept at it.<br />

But what if you don’t have an equation editor?<br />

It turns out that you have one built in to<br />

the Mac, Grapher, as Topher Kessler explains<br />

at .<br />

URLs, URLs, and more URLs<br />

You’re probably familiar with the Mac<br />

OS X calculator, which can appear on your<br />

screen in three forms: Basic, Scientific, and<br />

Programmer. Whoever runs mintpass has developed<br />

real, hardware, calculators based on<br />

the Mac and Windows calculators. See them<br />

at .<br />

November <strong>2009</strong><br />

<strong><strong>Apple</strong>Sauce</strong> Page 22<br />

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