OSXStereonet 1.0 released

Nestor Cardozo and Richard Allmendinger have updated Allmendinger's Stereonet-application into a slick Cocoa-based OSXStereonet version, which is a nice addition to freeware OSX geology tools. Based on a very quick test run of this software, the interface of the application looks very nice and fits well into the user-friendly environment of modern Macs - one example is the use of inspector-window instead of the oldish preference-menu. OSXStereonet supports both equal area and equal angle plots and has multiple plotting options, such as planes as poles and great circles, contouring (Kamb and 1% area contouring) and rose diagrams. Several statistical operations are also included. But the very nice addition is the support for multiple files, which can be loaded as simple .txt-files, and visualised simultaenously in a plot - each file can be stylisized separately in the inspector window. Files can be easily checked on and off by using simple check boxes in the inspector window.
OSXStereont supports image export to .pdf and .eps formats and I am personally very fond of the pdf-format, as Mac has a great support for these - for example, pdf-stereoplots can be very conveniently added to Pages by simply using the copy and paste-function. In addition of using the export-function, pdf-files can be easily generated by pressing the shift-button and dragging and dropping the plot on to the selected folder. Very nice!

To my present knowledge and experience, this is by far the best stereonet-application (freeware) for OSX I have met and I strongly suggest you to check it out. The only drawback I encountered so far is the lack of possibility to switch off  the "Equal area" and "Lower Hemisphere" texts on the upper left corner of the plots. But this is version 1.0 after all - further improvements might be expected in the future. However, this is already a great tool and I will certainly stick with it for a long time!