Tools
- Datathief for stealing data from publications (a Dutch product...)
- Some slides from a workshop (one of many hosted by the CECA at Waterloo) I did on planning for a career in academia
- Installing new (OpenType) fonts in MikTeX (so that you may use Akzidenz Grotesk as your thesis Sans Serif font)
- Essential Windows networking: freeSSHd, WinSCP, RealVNC, PuTTY
- SQLite3, a single-executable-file scriptable relational database
- Condor cross-platform grid computing (works great with KlustaKwik and MATLAB
