It’s time for another bonus mid-week post. This time I’m announcing the new MATLAB Contest: Army Ants.

It’s a challenging scenario where you try to improve your colony while… read more >>

The new Address Bar in the Current Directory Browser provides many point and click ways to navigate around your MATLAB file folders. The MATLAB current folder location is displayed as a series of… read more >>

Are you pining to provide feedback about MATLAB but haven’t had a good way to do so? Now’s your chance! You can make your voice heard and help drive future product development here at The… read more >>

I’d like to welcome guest blogger James Owen from the Desktop team. James will occasionally be blogging here on the Inside the MATLAB Desktop blog.

If you have MATLAB R2008b (version 7.7)… read more >>

In MATLAB R2008b, your command line just got a heck of a lot smarter. We now have autocompletion for function parameters, which we call Function Hints. It’s simple to explain, and easy to use…. read more >>

R2008b (version 7.7) is here! With it comes a host of great new features and updates to MATLAB. Below, I’ve called out some of my favorite new and updated Desktop features.
Be sure to let us… read more >>

We’ve just released MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b). There are some new features in here that we think will really improve your workflows and make MATLAB easier to use. On Monday, Ken will give a rundown… read more >>

If you are a mac user, you may have noticed some “changes” with the latest “Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2”. Negative symptoms seem to vary from user to user but generally… read more >>

If your looking for a quick way to come up to speed on new features, a new release or even a functional area, I highly recommend you take a look at the MATLAB demo videos available on the web and… read more >>

In a recent comment, Han Geerligs suggested we introduce #pragma-type directives to introduce arbitrary code folding. Well, we do have that, it’s called cells. You can introduce a cell by… read more >>