My Favorite Programs
This page is not meant so much for the public, but rather for my students and collaborators,because whenever they ask for advice on which program to use, I will point them to those listed here.
Most of the choices are actually obvious, I know.
If you know better choices, please tell me!!!
Internet
- Mozilla
Thunderbird
For organizing emails. Access still via POP, but I plan to switch to IMAP soon. - Mozilla
Firefox
For browsing the web.
- LaTeX
For professional texts and collaborative writing. - Eclipse + TeXclise
For editing LaTeX documents. It provides on-the-fly spell checking. - LibreOffice
Writer
To read some office documents that I get from other people.
- Inkscape
For drawings that I want to include in a paper. It supports many export formats (EPS and PDF). - Dia
For drawings that look more like diagrams. - LibreOffice
Draw
I used this before I was pointed to Inkscape and Dia.
LibreOffice works quite well for converting Word files to PDF.
- Picasa
For viewing and fixing photos, but also for organizing scanned documents and other images.
- Ubuntu
A convenient and easy way of having Unix.
- Twinkle
A SIP client that lets me use my office phone abroad.
- Unix
A concept of operating system that is the foundation of most modern OS. Modular. Possible to understand. Easy to configure/administer. - SIP
Open Standard for telephony based on VoIP. - Free Software
I like the idea of GNU to build, use, modify, verify, and distribute open software. - ISO measures
- ISO paper (A4 instead of letter)
- ISO dates and times (2009-04-25 instead of 4/25/09, 0:00h instead of 12:00am)
- ISO measures (liters and meters instead of gallons and yards)
- SVG
The graphics format that I like most. It is a text format (XML) and therefore easy to track with version control software.
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