MacScience’s favourites

 

This evaluation is based on user feedback and our own testing of the software (when made available to us). Revised and updated: March 25, 2008

  1. ‣Running Windows (XP or Vista) or on your Mac: Parallels / Fusion

  2. ‣Charts / graphs: proFit / Citrin

  3. ‣Data acquisition: MATLAB

  4. ‣Databases: FileMaker

  5. ‣Mathematics: Mathematica

  6. ‣Office suites: iWork 08 / NeoOffice

  7. ‣Presentations: Keynote

  8. ‣Programming / scripting: Xcode / Python / Ruby

  9. ‣Reference & document management: Papers

  10. ‣Scientific imaging: ImageJ

  11. ‣Spreadsheets: Numbers / NeoOffice Calc / Excel

  12. ‣Statistics: Prism / R / Aabel

  13. ‣Web browsers: Safari / Firefox

  14. ‣Web development: RapidWeaver / iWeb

  15. ‣Word processors: Mellel / Pages

 

Special mention:

Aabel (by Gigawiz) is difficult to categorize as an application. It is a swiss army knife of data processing; Aabel is a bit of everything, spreadsheet, database, charting program, statistics package. Idiosyncratic, surprisingly powerful for some specialized functions, give it a try, but read the manual or you may miss on important features. Click here to visit Aabel’s site and its new companion, Citrin, a graphing application recently launched by Gigawiz.

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