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Post-survey feedback!

We’ve just finished going through the survey results.  We’re very pleased with the amount and quality of feedback that you gave us.  There’s some excellent ideas in there, that you’ll start seeing with the next release (MacVector 12 is out later this year).  So once again thanks a lot to all who spent time to [...]

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MacVector at ASM 2010

The MacVector team will be attending the ASM 2010 meeting in San Diego.  If you are attending then please do drop by booth 240 (near the laptop lounge) to say hello!  If you are an user, then please do come and tell us what you think. Even if you think it is perfect (come top [...]

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MacVector 11.1 is now released

MacVector 11.1 has just been released. You can check out the new features of this release on this blog post or a fuller list is available here.
Existing customers can download and install it now. Although as usual you will be notified by MacVector’s online notifier in due course.
We are pleased with this [...]

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Configuring cross-posting with the MacVector forums

I’m configuring access from the Wordpress blog to cross post to the MacVector forums. So I thought it was a good opportunity to remind you about our forums. We have a fairly quiet but active community on our forums. They’ve been running since 2007 and there’s a lot of useful tips and topics on [...]

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What’s New in MacVector 11.1?

As mentioned in the last few posts MacVector 11.1 is a release designed to consolidate and ‘tweak’ the many new features and changes that have been made over the last three years. In the main these changes are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as providing better integration with OS [...]

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Graphical enhancements in MacVector 11.1

MacVector 11.1 has had many changes that are designed to simplify and speed up many common workflows as well as to providing better integration with OS X and improving performance. A great deal of these changes have been made to improve the graphical Map view.
Performance
MacVector’s Map View allows the features and results (e.g. restriction enzyme [...]

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MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

MacVector 11.0 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncia)
On August 28th Apple Computer, Inc. publicly release Mac OS X 10.6 also known as Snow Leopard. With any new release of the operating system (OS) there is always the question of whether the applications you own will continue to work. Often [...]

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Philadelphia and the ASM Convention

We had a great time at the ASM Convention several weeks ago. Thanks to all of the MacVector users who stopped by the booth. We enjoyed meeting you, showing you new features in MacVector, and gaining your feedback that will help us plan for the future. We also met a lot of [...]

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MacVector, Universal Type Identifiers and File Extensions

One feature that Macintosh applications have typically provided since the very beginning has been the ability to associate a document with an application such that opening the document (double clicking) would launch the appropriate application. Historically, on the Mac OS, this has been accomplished by including two additional pieces of information stored in the directory [...]

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MacVector 10.6 released

We have recently released a new version of MacVector – 10.6. All customers currently running any version of MacVector 10.5 are entitled to install this version. We highly recommend you to install and upgrade as this release combines numerous bug fixes to MacVector 10.5 in addition to new functionality.
We have released 10.6 in [...]

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