My Favorite Programs

• Mozilla Thunderbird
  For organizing emails. Access still via POP, but I plan to switch to IMAP soon.
• Mozilla Firefox
  For browsing the web.
• KompoZer
  For editing web pages.
• SeaMonkey Composer
  Used previously for editing web pages before I found out that is deletes PHP code. Now switched to KompoZer.

• LaTeX
  For professional texts and collaborative writing.
• Texmaker
  For editing LaTeX documents. It provides on-the-fly spell checking and reverse search with Okular.
• Okular
  For viewing DVI documents that LaTeX produces and for opening the corresponding source TEX files.
  
• OpenOffice 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.
• OpenOffice Draw
  I used this before I was pointed to Inkscape and Dia.

• Picasa
  For viewing and fixing photos, but also for organizing scanned documents and other images.
• IrfanView
  I used this before I found Picasa.

• 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.