software
NYU alum and CIMS offspring produces iPhone app
Via Washington Square News, Tisch alumnus Tim Novikoff (son of Courant professor Albert Novikoff) has developed an SAT prep iPhone app called Flash of Genius. It's now the #1 seller in its class.
GeoGebra to meet TeX
I've been a fan of GeoGebra since I saw a demonstration of it by Markus Hohenwarter as MSRI last year. It's a free (open-source), cross-platform (Java-based), dynamical geometry and algebra application.
The nice part about being java-based is you can export your GeoGebra worksheets to html with embedded java applets. And then with a bit of parameter munging you can upload them to your blog. The embedded applet can be as function as the application itself (a nice advantage to being free; it can't be stolen so there's no barrier to making it completely available).
The nice part about being open-source is that people can contribute to it as much as they want. Now in the works is a tool to export a GeoGebra worksheet to PGF/TikZ, so you can put them in your LaTeX documents.