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The Atomic Mac/PC is the award winning periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. In addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Mac/PC also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope, including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. No other periodic table of the elements has more data than The Atomic Mac/PC!

ByeGraph is a graph drawing application available for Macintosh OS X, and it is shareware. It enables you to make data and expressions into an effective graph with easier settings.

Health Tracker is a simple yet powerful program which helps you keep track of and graph any health related measurement. For example, if you are diabetic you could track your blood glucose levels. It is available for both the Macintosh and Windows.

MathType is a powerful interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.

RouteBuddy is a GPS enabled mapping application for OS X. All the essential functions of your GPS device are supported; all you need is a mac, a Garmin GPS, and of course RouteBuddy.

ScreenFlow from Vara Software is, quite frankly, the best screencasting application for the Mac that we have seen to date -- and trust us, we've tried them all. Taking advantage of Core Animation (making this a Leopard only application), Quartz Composer and a custom 64-bit enabled compression system, ScreenFlow can capture DVD playback (see our screencast below for a demo), 3-D game playback and can also simultaneously capture from your screen and your iSight or DV camera -- meaning you can create a screencast that can show you as you speak.

Algebra Vision shows students how to play with algebra. Drag numbers around! With Algebra Vision, you start off with an expression, and you have a toolbox full of tools (theorems). Each one has a unique purpose that changes your expression. Use them.

Perform statistical analysis on a Mac in the familiar environment. Turn Microsoft Excel into a powerful statistical package with StatPlus:mac. Stop wasting time learning new tools and perform complex statistical analysis right away!

AppleScript is a scripting language that provides convenient control of applications and of many parts of the Mac OS. AppleScript, which uses an English-like syntax, is a rich, object-oriented language. You can use it to automate simple tasks or implement complex workflows that combine operations from applications and the Mac OS.

One man's opinion: The more I use these, the more I really don't care for iWork. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for the matter) cuts the mustard quite handily. For real polish, you still can't beat Office 2007/2008, as much as I hate to admit it. What do you think? Oo.org 3.0 looks to rock out loud too. Is iWork irrelevant, or is it just me? Reread the repost below and I'll give this some more thought next week when I'm back from vacation.