After making a search for applications in the applications center, they are ordered in some crazy unknown way. 

They do not appear to be ordered alphabetically by author, nor by title and also they have no date published attached to the searched list. 

Searching for all titles by product Maple 16, we find that TEST APPLICATION created July 31 is actually listed behind Robert Lopez's Classroom Tips and Techniques: Slider-Control of Parameters in Numeric...

MapleSim now is in direct competition with Mathematica's System modeller.

I just found that out now, it could have been out for a while but they look similar.  Mathematica is already comparing it with MapleSim and essentially indicating that their modeller is superior.

Let's hear from the Maple crowd.  Is System Modeller better than MapleSim?

It appears the wikipedia entry for Maple (software) is deeply in need of an overhaul to reflect new graphic modifications and for better eye candy. 

Not that it really matters but the graphics there are rather primitive and outdated. 

This is an important topic which is why I have labelled it as a post.  Many users would like to know how to implement a minor fix to versions where fixes have not been applied.

I will start with one example.

   pdsolve had an issue where the fourth order term was not evaluated in the pdsolve command.  The issue 
   works Maple 16.  To those users of earlier versions where the code didn't work, it was ...

   showstat(pdsolve)

If anyone was interested Euro 2012 starts tomorrow.  Using the FIFA simulation created by Robert Israel one could enter the new values for the ELO ratings found here http://www.eloratings.net/euro_cup.html to create a similar simlation of Euro 2012.  Just for visual sakes here's the ELO ratings for the teams in the tournament.