Software marked researcher...
Someone who seeks information from multiple sources
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Notepad2
A replacement for Windows' Notepad, it is based on Scintilla and features syntax highlighting. It can be run right out of the box and doesn't alter the registry settings. Intended to be as easy to use than Notepad but with new features and capabilities.
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Sumatra PDF
Sumatra PDF is a fast, minimalistic PDF viewer for Windows with no external dependencies, so you can easily run it from a USB drive. Because Sumatra does not lock a PDF file, you can recompile a source document, generate a new PDF file, then refresh your view of the PDF document.
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Workrave
Workrave assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program periodically alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to a daily limit at the keyboard.
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zotero
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
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TAMS Analyzer
Text Analysis Markup System (TAMS) is a convention for identifying themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research. TAMS Analyzer works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text by selecting the relevant text and double-clicking the name of the code on a list. It then allows you to extract, analyze, and save coded information. The Macintosh version of the program also includes full support for transcription (back space, insert time code, jump to time code, etc.) when working with data on sound files.
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QuteCom
Wikipedia says QuteCom (previously called WengoPhone) is a SIP-compliant voice-over-IP client that allows you to speak to other users of SIP-compliant softphones at no cost. It also allows users to call landlines and cell phones, send SMS text, and make video calls. You can use it with any SIP provider.
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StarDict
StarDict is a graphical user interface to .dict dictionary files. It offers glob-style pattern matching, fuzzy queries, and full-text translation. You can choose which dictionaries to use and install them separately.
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Weft QDA
Weft QDA is an easy-to-use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts, written texts and fieldnotes. It includes a number of fairly standard CAQDAS features. Text documents can be imported from plain text or PDF files. Text passages within documents can then be marked (or 'coded') as relating to any number of 'categories', which are organised into a hierarchical tree. These passages can later be retrieved, reviewed, and further analysed. In addition, Weft includes a fast text search facility, the ability to attach memos and notes to documents and categories, and can carry out set operations and cross-tabulations to see how categories overlap. (Note: the Mac download is a development version! There is currently no stable Mac release.)
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Launchy
The Launchy keystroke software launcher helps you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. It indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
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The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)
The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a Java library for bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and computational chemistry. It is the basis of other projects such as JChemPaint, Jmol, SENECA, and NMRShiftDB.
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Vienna
Vienna is a Mac OS X RSS reader with support for RSS/Atom feeds. It emphasizes a simple interface, smart folders for organizing related articles, custom article display styles, filters, and blogging integration.
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Feedreader
Feedreader is a personal news aggregator and RSS feed reader. It reads, collects, and organizes syndicated web content, and delivers it directly to user desktops. Users can create smart feeds by entering keywords or phrases; Feedreader then automatically monitors articles for those topics, and displays them in the left feed panel. Feedreader can automatically download enclosures and podcasts that are attached to articles, and allows you to tag all articles for organization and categorization. And, Feedreader enables users to create nested folders, and offers full support for Unicode and secure SSL connections.
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Juice
Juice lets you select and download Internet audio programs, podcasts, music, and shows and play them anytime on portable digital media players or computers. It comes with a built-in directory of thousands of listed podcast feeds.
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PNotes
PNotes (Pinned Notes or Portable Notes) is a fast and lightweight desktop notes manager with flexible settings for the program as a whole and for individual notes. You can customize skins, fonts, colors, alarms, and transparency level. Any portion of note's text can be formatted separately. You can also schedule each note to remind you about significant events three different ways - alert you once, raise an alarm every day at a specified time, or pester you every specified interval.
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Privoxy
Privoxy is a customizable non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups, and other obnoxious Internet junk. It's useful on both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
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SWORD
The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software project. Its tools allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software and manipulate text more quickly and easily.
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WordPress
WordPress is a blog publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It has a huge feature list, plus hundreds of available themes and plugins to extend its capabilities. WordPress supports distinct users roles (such as author and editor) and allows you to password-protect selected posts.