![]() ![]() ![]() If you are on a platform that supports Excel, working regularly with spreadsheets and using something other than Excel: it really means that you do not value your time. ![]() Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel (commercial: Windows, OSX) Open Office and Google Docs are getting better every day, but neither come close to Microsoft Excel in functionality and versatility of user interface. Papers acquired by Springer, added tons of flakey “social sharing” buttons (can no longer rate papers without sharing the rating on many of the user interface paths) and increasing OSX indexing flakiness has greatly reduced the reliability of search on Apple OSX. Reference Library: Papers (commercial: OSX) “iTunes for PDF.” Manage thousands of PDFs and references, annotate with meta-data, place papers into multiple project folders.Īn interesting alternative is BibDesk (open source: OSX, not an in-PDF searcher). Presentation: Apple Keynote (commercial: OSX) Keynote is not quite as friendly as Microsoft PowerPoint, but it quickly produces beautiful presentations. Encryption, files: GnuPG (open source: Linux, Windows, OSX) GnuPG is the tool to use to encrypt files for email. On, the TrueCrypt website announced that the project was no longer maintained and recommended users to find alternative solutions ( wikipedia). The spirit of the list is to pick items such that: if you disagree with an item in this list then either you are wrong or you know something I would really like to hear about.Įncryption, disk images: TrueCrypt (open source: Linux, Windows, OSX) TrueCrypt can create portable encrypted virtual disks (files that can be mounted as a disk on any operating system). I have avoided some categories (such as editors, email programs, programing language, IDEs, photo editors, backup solutions, databases, database tools and web tools) where I have no feeling of having seen a single absolute best offering. These are the packages that I find to be the single “must have offerings” in a number of categories. I would like to quickly exhibit my “must have” list. Having worked with Unix (BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux and OSX), Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and 7) for quite a while I have seen a lot of different software tools. Data science advising, consulting, and training ![]()
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