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  • Review: NASA app for iPhone
    With this app from the U.S. space agency, you can get info on NASA missions, view images from space, access NASA TV videos, and follow NASA Twitter feeds -- all for free.
  • NASA brings chemical sensor to iPhone
    NASA's Ames Research Center has developed what the space agency calls a proof of concept of new technology that would bring compact, low-cost, low-power, high-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing capabilities to cell phones.
  • iPhone app helps you celebrate Galileo's 400th anniversary
    Distant Suns, available from the App Store, can identify the planets, constellations, more than a hundred galaxies and star clusters, and thousands of stars.
  • Mac News Briefs: TLA updates Mac version of PCalc
    The Mac version of the scientific calculator adds many of the features developer TLA Systems has recently added to PCalc for the iPhone. Also on Thursday, Opera put out the latest beta of its Web browser, Delicious Monster updated Delicious Library, and U&I Software launched MetaSynth 5.
  • SPSS releases update to PASW statistical analysis package
    SPSS has announced the release of PASW Statistics 18, a new version of its statistical analysis software.
  • Vibration for iPhone
    Not everyone will need this app, which uses the built-in accelerometer to turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a vibration spectrum analyzer. But if you're an engineer, mechanic, or software developer, Vibration gives you an accurate, easy-to-use tool.
  • PCalc calculator app ready for iPhone 3.0
    PCalc 1.6, arriving on the App Store Monday, has been built for this week's iPhone 3.0 update, adding support for copy and paste to the calculator app.
  • Slideshow: Macs at the Maker Faire
    Maker Faire is a two-day do-it-yourself tech and craft fest held in the Bay Area. We paid a visit to the fourth annual event and took note of all the Mac- and Apple-based exhibits on display.
  • CrystalMaker sports anaglyph 3D support
    CrystalMaker, used to visualize crystals and molecules, now works in 3D, using good old-fashioned red-blue glasses.
  • Mathematica Home Edition released
    Mathematica Home Edition is a version of Wolfram's analytic software licensed for personal use.
  • HOBO data logger software available as trial version
    Onset Computer's HOBOware Pro software is now available in downloadable trial version.
  • Review: Wolfram Mathematica 7
    Mathematica 7.0 continues the tradition of the past 20 years—each version sets a new standard for scientific and technical computing innovation.
  • Wolfram introduces Mathematica 7
    Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 7, a new version of its computing software for science and engineering.
  • Review: Maple 12 mathematical software
    For this update, Maple has chosen to build on its strengths as a pedagogical tool and to strengthen its ties to the engineering and technical-computing arenas.
  • MathType 6 math notation editor supports Leopard
    MathType 6 is now available. The new version of the equation editing software features Universal binary support and works in Leopard.
  • Mac-based weather station adds barometric sensor
    Onset Computer has developed a barometric sensor for its HOBO U30 Remote Monitoring System
  • ‘Brain Fitness Program Classic’ comes to Mac
    Brain Fitness Program Classic, a brain-training app developed by neuroscientists, is now available for Mac OS X.
  • Onset offers bulk export tool for data loggers
    Onset Computer is offering a free bulk export tool for users of its Hobo data logging devices.
  • Onset offers data logger with LCD display
    Onset Computer's new U14 data logger is Mac compatible, and records temperature and relative humidity.
  • Expo: CrystlaMaker adds animation features in version 8
    The latest version of the tool for visualizing crystalline and molecular structures lets users animate changes to demonstrate how molecules transform during chemical reactions.
  • Expo Notes: Getting creative at Expo
    Heather Kelly shares a few of her favorite sights from the Expo show floor, all of which have a creative bent.
  • Wireless weather station works with the Mac
  • Review: SPSS 16.0
    With version 16, SPSS has leveled the playing field across all platforms, and the program’s Java implementation should allow the Macintosh version to keep up in the future, rather than lagging as it has in the past. It is a significant upgrade that will be warmly welcomed by Macintosh data-mavens everywhere.
  • 'Starry Night Apollo' gives astronaut's eye view
    A new package from Imaginova lets you view the trips and the views seen by NASA's historic Apollo astronauts, who landed on the Moon.

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