Dropbox – Students I just doubled my Dropbox storage by associating a .edu email address with my current account. They are giving retroactive credit for all previous referrals at the new higher rate (500MB/referral instead of 250MB). (via Lifehacker.) In case your not familiar with DropBox, here’s a post from the archive: Use DropBox to [...]

LaTeX and iWork on Mac OS X

Keynote and LaTeX on Mac OS X Great tips on getting LaTeX equations into Keynote presentations and Pages documents. I’m impressed with the simplicity of both the Grapher and LaTeXIt Service solutions.

What’s the Point of the AAS Meeting?

Nic posted this comment on the “What’s your status?” post and I think it’s controversial enough to be its own post: “IMHO”, simply put, the AAS is the most energy (flight) intensive, least scientifically productive meeting in the the Astronomy community by, I would suggest, at least a couple of orders of magnitude. Do you, [...]

Quicksilver, Quick Search Box, and now Alfred!

Quick Search Box or Quicksilver? | The Apple BlogNow today, we have access to a community-supported version of Quicksilver that runs smoothly on OS X 10.6, as well as the Google-backed Quick Search Box which also works well enough. So which is the better choice for daily use? Whether you’re a current user of Google’s [...]

Python Provocation | The e-Astronomer Python occupies a strange territory between the easy peasy world of “download this app and start clicking” and the stern world of “if you don’t know what a makefile is, you’d better look somewhere else mate”. At first I thought this was precisely its strength : grown up stuff for [...]

Scientists’ 10 Commandments

Scientist 10 Commandments (arXiv:1009.4891) These sound pretty good. But I think there should be something in here about keeping a good lab notebook or record keeping. (via Supernova Condensate.) SCIENTIST 10 COMMANDMENTS Go to your laboratory or your instrument without any pre-conceived ideas. Just register what you saw faithfully. Report promptly and scientifically. Check your [...]

Research funding: Making the cut : Nature News

Research funding: Making the cut | Nature News Submitting a grant proposal but never been on a committee? Here’s an inside look at how it actually goes down. Even though this article is about a committee for the American Cancer Society, it sounds basically the same as an NSF review panel to me. (via Jackie [...]

10-Step Guide to Designing a Presentation

Design a Presentation | Extreme Presentation Method Detailed 10-step guide for preparing effective and persuasive presentations. You should not draw any slides until step eight, 80% of the way through the process. (via Juice Analytics).