Apple’s science page has a collection of Keynote templates. They even have a short video about using the templates. (OK, 3D marble bar graphs are probably not the best, but you were going to make your graphics in IDL and import them anyway, right?)
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ITT VIS announced an update for IDL on OS X today:
A new update for IDL on Macintosh computers is now available. The IDL 7.0.4 release adds support for Macintosh Intel 64-bit architecture on OS X 10.5. IDL 7.0.4 also fixes two issues that impacted all supported Macintosh platforms: CR49844 - “Creation of Semaphores Fails under Mac OS X 10.5″, and CR51198/CR51412 - “CURSOR/RDPIX Procedures not Working Correctly on OS X”.
X11 2.3.1 addresses X11 issues in Mac OS X 10.5.5.
In general, keep your X11 updates around after installing them because you need to re-install it if you install OS or security updates through Apple’s Software Update.
Versions.app
posted Wed 4 Jun 2008 by Michael Galloy under Mac
I just got the beta release of Versions, a Subversion front end for the Mac. I use the command line interface for Subversion for most of day-to-day work, but occasionally I like a visual interface to do comparisons, show timelines, etc. The Subclipse plugin for the Workbench works fairly well for this, but I don’t always have the Workbench running and it’s slow to start. Versions provides a very Mac-like experience to version control.
I didn’t see any mention of the price; I’m hoping they intend to make their money selling Subversion hosting at Beanstalk.
There’s an XQuartz update. Remember to keep the package around to re-install after doing updates from Software Update.
- [shell-fu]$ lists handy, or just plain cool, Unix shell commands. You can learn some shell scripting through the great examples on this site.
- FlowingData is giving away a copy of Tufte’s
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. To enter, post a comment on any new post on FlowingData in the next ten days. - Terminal tip to have all links open in tabs of a single Safari 3.1 window. This is one of the reasons I switched from Safari back to Firefox recently (the other being that the Firefox 3 betas have fixed the issues I was having with Firefox).
The XQuartz project released the 2.1.4 X11 update (requires Mac OS X 10.5.2).
Continue reading “X11 2.1.4 for Mac OS X 10.5.2.”
The diff UNIX utility has been a great tool for me. It performs a task I need to do regularly, find the differences between two files. Unfortunately, despite using it regularly, I am still routinely puzzled by its output. To the rescue: a tool I already had installed, but didn't know about.
FileMerge.app is an application bundled with Xcode that can be invoked at the command line to display differences between files (or directories!):
$ opendiff path1 path2
This opens a very intuitive GUI to display the differences. (Wow! And I thought piping diff's output to TextMate to use its diff mode was an improvement...)
You can even hook it into Subversion. By the way, the IDL Workbench has a similar tool built into it.
The X.org Wiki has a page for updates for XDarwin. I was still having some issues (with CURSOR) that these updates fixed. The two lines that will do the updates are:
curl -LO http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/x11-apple/x11_update.sh sudo sh x11_update.sh
UPDATE: it appears you should get your updates here now. I still have X problems, but things are definitely improving.
