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Utilities, software or otherwise, used for a better academic life

Lots of utilities or tools are used by graduate students, researchers, academicians to better their life in academics. They can vary from simple reminder tools, To-Do list managers to Bibliography managers, project management tools and the likes.

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Is it acceptable to use personal equipment for research?

I'm a new graduate student in a computational lab, and the workstations provided by the lab I'm in right now are...slightly subpar. Long story short, a lot of it is nearing a decade old, and there doesn't seem to be a push to replace it with new…
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What are the uses of an iPad for an academic staff?

As a new academic staff, I received an iPad from my department. I have never owned nor used an iPad before, so it is still in the box for the past week or so. I am a bit reluctant to open it, as I am not sure if it would be useful, and I have…
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How to efficiently print the image of a whiteboard?

I often brainstorm research ideas on my whiteboard. I then run out of space and want to store and print the contents of the whiteboard. In general I have a system of taking a photo of the whiteboard with my phone, which is synchronised to dropbox,…
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Seeking Android PDF to voice app that can skip citations

I like to use a PDF to voice app to read papers aloud on walks. I used to use Voice Dream for iOS ($25) but recently switched to Android. Voice Dream is only for iOS. Voice Dream had a very useful setting that skipped parenthetical citations while…
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Highlighting PDFs in e-readers

I am considering buying an e-reader and my friend lent me a Kobo to have a go (and buy if I liked it), but I found I could not highlight PDFs. Clearly that is useless to me. I see Mendeley has a Kindle sync. Does anyone have experience with this? I…
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