AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
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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 />
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