This is where am just dumping various favorite lists. So that, if someone asks me, which text editor are you using, I can just direct him or her to my website.
- Software I’m using
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- Mac
- Writing tools
- I switched to BBEdit as an editor. It has a lot of nice features, like collapsing of subroutines when writing code.
- Smultron: Unfortunately, no longer actively developed. But so far (OS X 10.6) still working, and a great and simple editor, with nice syntax highlighting. Also works well together with cyberduck, a free ftp transfer client, for editing remote files seamlessly.
- Obviously, Omni Outliner. Also trying Omnifocus these days as a brain dump tool. But probably the outliner is enough for my purposes.
- Reading tools
- Papers: An integrated pdf management and bibliography tool. Integrated search engines, generation of bibliography files (bibtex etc). Best of all, there’s an iPhone app to sync with. (Thanks to Kris for recommending.)
- Papers: An integrated pdf management and bibliography tool. Integrated search engines, generation of bibliography files (bibtex etc). Best of all, there’s an iPhone app to sync with. (Thanks to Kris for recommending.)
- ‘Social’ stuff
- I switched to Pwitter as my main Twitter client, since it has exactly what I want: in particular, a nice, slightly transparent window that matches the style of my Adium appearance and can be set always to float on top; growl notifications; and many customizable options. Previously, I have used the Twitter plugin for Adium and the Tweet script for Quicksilver.
- I switched to Pwitter as my main Twitter client, since it has exactly what I want: in particular, a nice, slightly transparent window that matches the style of my Adium appearance and can be set always to float on top; growl notifications; and many customizable options. Previously, I have used the Twitter plugin for Adium and the Tweet script for Quicksilver.
- Writing tools
- Linux / X11
- Editors
- I like using NEdit much better than vim or emacs. As opposed to vim (for whose key combos my memory is just too bad), it’s a windowed X11 editor with menus, and as opposed to emacs, it has a much smaller footprint and works reasonably fast over remote connections.
- I like using NEdit much better than vim or emacs. As opposed to vim (for whose key combos my memory is just too bad), it’s a windowed X11 editor with menus, and as opposed to emacs, it has a much smaller footprint and works reasonably fast over remote connections.
- Editors
- iPhone
- Papers for iPhone: the app that Papers for the Mac syncs with, so you can have some (or all… they require fairly little memory) of your scientific papers with you at all times. Reading on the iPhone works well, and you can also add papers or references on the iPhone and sync them reversely to your Mac.
- ShapeWriter, a super-cool editor that makes writing on the iPhone almost manageable. But, for obvious reasons, only works in English…
- Podcasts I’m listening to
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- The Naked Scientists. Maybe the only podcast. Pepped-up science from all corners of the world, broadcast from Cambridge, UK.
- Savage Love: Sex advice and conservative-bashing. Entertaining.
- Outdoors equipment
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- Food
- Mountain House: Hands down the best freeze-dried meals I have tried. No comparison to any of the other stuff. Their Veggie Lasagna would make me happy in any average Italian restaurant….
- Mountain House: Hands down the best freeze-dried meals I have tried. No comparison to any of the other stuff. Their Veggie Lasagna would make me happy in any average Italian restaurant….
- If you’re looking for gifts for me…
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- Books
- Werner Herzog, Eroberung des Nutzlosen
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura
- Randy Olson, Don’t Be Such a Scientist
- Photo stuff
- Leica M9 (just kidding…). Or the X1, for that matter.
- Leica M9 (just kidding…). Or the X1, for that matter.
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