Software I use

I drew up a list of all software I most frequently use for when I had to do a full re-install on one of my computers… so here it is:

Editing

• JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/)
• LyX (http://www.lyx.org/)
• Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
• Swan – Scientific Writing Assistant (http://cs.uef.fi/swan/index.html)
• Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/)

Statistics / Programming

• R (http://www.r-project.org/)
• R-Studio (IDE for R) (http://www.rstudio.com/)
• oTree (https://www.otree.org/)
• Stata (http://www.stata.com/)
• Atom (https://atom.io/)

Languages / Dictionaries

• ImTranslator (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imtranslator-google-trans/noaijdpnepcgjemiklgfkcfbkokogabh)
• LingoPad German-English (http://www.ego4u.de/de/lingopad)
• WordWeb (http://wordweb.info/free/)

Pictures / Videos / Music

• Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/)
• Paint.net (http://paint.net/)
• VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)

Utilities / Productivity tools

• Create Synchronicity (backup and synchronization) (http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/)
• Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com)
• Github (http://github.com/)
• KeePass Password Safe (http://keepass.info/)
• RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com)
• SharpKeys (https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/)
• Tomighty Timer (http://www.tomighty.org/)
• Workrave (http://www.workrave.org/)

Browsers / Readers / Scrapers

• Acrobat Reader (http://get.adobe.com/reader/)
• Feedly (for rss reading list) (http://feedly.com)
• Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome)
• Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com)
• Publish or Perish (http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm)
• Pocket (for reading later) (http://getpocket.com)
• Sumatra PDF (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html)
• ScreenScraper (http://screen-scraper.com/)

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