Tools

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.
  • GNUPlot tips and tricks

• matplotlib - A Python based 2D plotting tool that can produce high quality figures.

Latex Writing

• JabRef: A bibliography editor
• Making presentations using Beamer

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

See Also

• Windows Tools