Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple
Apple launches Science Productivity Lab
Apple has just added a new section to the Science portion of its website (you did know Apple's website has a section devoted to science, right?). The Science Productivity Lab includes a number of video tutorials aimed at helping researchers and scientists use their Macs to share their work.Most of the tutorials have a sciencey theme, but with subjects like, 'How to Create Live Screen Captures with Snapz Pro X,' I think it is safe to say that people other than scientists will find this information useful.
Note: The use of Bill Nye's picture should not be construed as an endorsement by the Science Guy. He does, though, think that science rules.
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aptenergy said 1:19PM on 7-01-2008
Just thinking about their tutorial re:Keynote. Sigh, too bad iWork doesn't support error bars. And too bad that its graph support, great as it may seem, is still not quite as customizable as PowerPoint's setup. And too bad most of its default themes have to be heavily modified (read: make text smaller, arrange to be more compact) to be relevant in a scientific presentation.
I mean I'm all for Keynote - I use it whenever I can to give lab updates, etc. But I've got high expectations...
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Josh said 10:20AM on 7-06-2008
Real question: Why are they telling you to make your poster in Keynote? If you have Keynote, you have Pages, which is a real page layout program that works well. This odd carryover from people making posters in PowerPoint should not be encouraged.
tevetorbes said 1:49PM on 7-01-2008
Why would you use iWork to create scientific graphs? I hope that you're not using Excel in its stead!
Get a real graphing program (read: Igor, Kaliedagraph, etc.) if you want to do scientific graphs. Then just export them as your favorite graphics format and import them into your favorite document program.
Do NOT, under ANY circumstances, use Excel (or Numbers, for that matter) to create a graph that you want to be conveyed in a meaningful way.
BTW, I use Keynote to make very professional looking presentations for national meetings in a scientific setting (chemistry) and would NEVER consider going back to Powerpoint if for no other reasons than Mask with Shape and Instant Alpha.
McFly said 1:19PM on 7-01-2008
"It's science!"
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macsosguy said 1:27PM on 7-01-2008
And I have it on good authority that Bill Nye has visited the Mac Store here in Seattle often! :-)
–Steve
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Jak Logan said 1:54PM on 7-01-2008
I just watched the movie yesterday on how to create a research poster using Keynote. Pretty interesting I thought. Here's the URL they gave for the template for the poster. It creates a poster 3' x 4' that you can export to a pdf.
(download warning)
http://www/apple.com/science/poster/WWDC_Poster_Templates.zip
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Fritz Laurel said 2:22PM on 7-01-2008
Much like The Cider House, Bill Nye rules!
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Naomi said 2:34PM on 7-01-2008
I actually helped out Bill Nye one time when I was working at the Apple store in Santa Monica, CA!
He came in and everyone was like "ooh is that Bill Nye?" and so my manager asked me to ID him and find out. Luckily he bought something, but when I asked for ID he sighed and said "Have you ever heard of a TV show called Bill Nye the Science guy?"
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Rick said 4:40PM on 7-01-2008
"The use of Bill Nye's picture should not be construed as an endorsement by the Science Guy. He does, though, think that science rules."
He also thinks that Macs rule. I used to work at the Apple store in Chicago, and he came into a few times. Nice guy, that Bile Nye.
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Rick said 4:40PM on 7-01-2008
He came into the Chicago store a few times, too.
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Rick said 4:41PM on 7-01-2008
Apparently, I don't know how to use the comments/email thing... my bad.
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dano3006 said 9:47AM on 7-02-2008
Yes, Bill Nye is a Mac guy. He uses his Mac for everything, including monitoring and managing his solar power array.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dano3006/490731497/in/set-72157601068853910/
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Eleventeen said 10:36AM on 7-07-2008
D'oh. And here I was thinking this was going to announce that you could buy old BNSG eps on iTunes.
Bill Nye FTW!
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