Tools
From Aicip
This is a list of common tools that available for research & scientific writing.
Scientific Plotting
UT has site-wide Matlab licence, so that may be the first choice of scientific plotting. However, for broader and future use, you might consider learning a few more handy and widely acceptable plotting tools.
- R : a statistical and visualization tool.
- GNUPlot: classical 2-D plotting tool.
- matplotlib - A Python based 2D plotting tool that can produce high quality figures.
Latex Writing
Editor
- Vim
- For Mac user: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
- Emacs
- Download Mac Version at http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html.
- Download Windows Version at http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html, a bundled package that make it a bit easier.
Firefox Add-ons
- Download Status Bar
- Ad Block
- Video Download Helper
- Better Gamil
- Gmarks