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[Day Permalink] Tuesday, June 29, 2004

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Apple Putting More Focus on Simplifying Searching: "Steven P. Jobs, the chief of Apple Computer, demonstrated his answer to one of computing's most pressing problems: searching for files and information stored on desktop computers." [The New York Times > Technology]


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Apple 'launches Longhorn' with better search, graphics: 'Many of the features due to appear Microsoft's Longhorn will appear a year early in Mac OS X "Tiger", Apple claimed today. The next major revision does indeed offer some benefits that OS vendors have been talking about for more than a decade, such as real-time content retrieval, and point and click scripting.' [The Register]


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Keynote by Steve Jobs: 'It's that time of year again. Apple's flare for the wryly dramatic could be seen outside the Moscone convention center, where banners stating "Redmond, we have a problem," and "This should keep Redmond busy" hang next to images of Tiger preview CDs.' [Ars Technica]


[Item Permalink] Use the GiD preprocessor with Elmer to solve multiphysical models -- Comment()
You can now model 2d and 3d geometry with the GiD preprocessor, and use Elmer to solve multiphysical models. The necessary template files for GiD are available at the Elmer web site. Both GiD and Elmer are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.