Some fun tools on Mac/PC

There are some fun tools on Mac/PC which can help you on your studies, life and research.


1. Evernote:

https://evernote.com/

To download :

https://evernote.com/download/


It helps you to make notes of the papers you read etc. Here is a tutorial:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFcOcKQG-Q




2. Type Setting tool

MS word, Latex

Latex is a science Type setting tool. You can type in complicated math formula using it.

To use it, you can download MikTex:

http://miktex.org/download


After installing it, you can type in some text to generate math formula:

 After press the green button, it will generate a Math formula PDF:

Here is a tutorial for it:

https://www.tug.org/twg/mactex/tutorials/ltxprimer-1.0.pdf


3.  Text read software:

Sometimes when we try to open some files with certain extension, and no such software installed, we need to use text read software like below:

Notepad++

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/


TextPad

https://www.textpad.com/

The above two are mainly for PC

For Mac, there are more:

http://formac.informer.com/textpad

TextWrangler etc. 

4. FastStone

http://www.faststone.org/

Can do the image capture etc

not free

5. UltraEdit

http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/ultraedit_download.html

Good editor for excel, different programming etc

not free

6.  Atom

https://atom.io/

Free programming scripts editor, runner etc.