Papers is an application to help you find, organise, read, and search all those PDFs that you accumulate during research. It is written by two nerds—sorry, scientists—in the Netherlands (and now UK), and won an Apple Design Award in 2007.
I downloaded the demo to help me with a biochem assignment. So far it only searches PubMed, but that’s been enough for me.
And the verdict is: it’s sexy. Sexy enough for me to pay for.
Yeah.
Aidan Findlater Impersonal research, software
NewsFire doesn’t alert me on error. Vienna does.
Vienna seems to have tweaked the UI a little since I last tried it, and it’s working fine for me. It might not be quite as pretty as NewsFire, but at least I know when there’s a problem with one of the feeds.
And, to make it final, I’ve switched my global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Opt-n) to open Vienna.
Aidan Findlater Impersonal software
The people who say that the GIMP is an acceptable replacement for Photoshop have obviously used neither.
I was even using Gimpshop.
Sigh.
Aidan Findlater Impersonal, Personal software
