[ale] [OT] I just bought an iBook, what now

[Dow Hurst]

Google NAMD.
Go to the home page and go on thru the download link.
Download the Mac version.  (Register your name with them, they are harmless)
Go the VMD page and download it too.  Add plugins if you want.

Now you can go get Protein Data Bank files (Google that too).  You can 
download any of the thousands of protein files in "pdb" form to 
visualize in VMD or do calculations on in NAMD.
These are free packages that are extremely powerful and scriptable.

After doing all that maybe you should look into Fink and Pymol.

You gotten a good dose of science on a Mac after this,
Dow



Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> Well, we had an issue come up that required a Mac to test, which 
> prompted the purchase of an iBook from Micro Center (spur of the 
> moment thing, but the experience was pleasant).  At any rate, it's 
> ours now, and I've never used one before (well, that's untrue, but the 
> last Apple that I tinkered with was an Apple ][, it's been a while).  
> After tinkering with it for most of the day, I've gotta say I really 
> like it, I just don't know what to *do* with it.  I've got FireFox and 
> Thunderbird installed (that was easy), and I have 2 user accounts 
> setup on it.  My question is, what now?  Are there any 'standard apps' 
> that you guys can suggest?  Anything I need to watch out for?