Favorites
My favorites about WORK, LIFE and ACADEMIC STUDY, including software, websites, books, etc.
Highlighted (strongly recommend)
- BandiZip : The best all-in-one free zip archiver
- Potplayer : The best media player, suitable for high resolution.
- HandBrake : An Excellent Open Source Video Transcoder
- TEMPLATED : awesome responsive CSS & HTML5 templates
- Collocation Dictionary : check collocations for English words
Work & Life
Efficiency
- Evernote (CN) : Knowledge management software
- Wunderlist : To do List app, light software
- Trello : Use "board" to manage your life, a good tool for team cooperation
- XMind (CN): Flowchart software, free for the basic functions
- ProcessOn : an online flowchart maker website
- TeamViewer : Remote Desktop Access, Remote Support and Online Meetings
Converter
- HandBrake : highly recommend, can deal with variable frame rate video.
- Mediacoder (CN) : small size converter
- Speechnotes (Chrome Add-in) : Voice to text
Media
- BandiZip : The best all-in-one free zip archiver
- Honeycam : Simple and easy GIF Maker (limited free functions)
- Potplayer : The best media player I've ever used
- flickr : a large photo-sharing website
Music
- synthesia : an easy-to-play piano game
- yinseku : Virtual Studio Technology Instruments(VSTI) website
- midifan : Virtual Studio Technology Instruments(VSTI) website
Have Fun
- Medium : read it at any time
- Regex Crossword
Academic Resources
Paper
- Mendeley : most popular paper management software, good for Windows
- papers : paper management software, good for Mac OS
- arxiv : e-prints latest papers
- Web of Science
Engineering Online Groceries
- McMaster : Mechanical components grocery
- Grainger Products : Electrical components
- SparkFun Electronics : Electronic components
- Pololu : Robotics & Electronics
- RobotShop : Robot Shop
Mathematics
- Wolfram MathWorld : the web's most extensive mathematics resource
- System of Equations Calculator
- GeoGebra Graphing Calculator : easy to plot your graph
- betterexplained.com : Math without endless memorization.
- Linear Algebra Done Right
- Linear Algebra Done Wrong
LaTex
- Overleaf : free online collaborative LaTex writing tool
- Short Tutorial (CN) : 30 mins LaTex tutorial
- LaTex Command Summary
- LaTex Wiki
English Learning
Software
- YouDao Dict : contains Longman and Collins English-Chinese bilingual dictionary
- Lingoes : light and extensible dictionary software for Windows
Online Dictionary
- Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) : find your words in the corpus
- Collocation Dictionary : check collocations for English words
- Etymology Dictionary
- Rhyme Dictionary
- dictionary.com : American English, easy to learn, word origin in world map, can be cited
- thesaurus.com : synonyms and antonyms of words, useful for writing
- vocabulary.com : explain the meaning with plain words and vivid examples.
- Merriam Webster
- Longman Dictionary
Checker
- Test Your Vocabulary
- Grammarly : Chrome & Office Add-in are very useful.
- nounplus : grammar checker online
- Hemingway Editor : essay highlight
- pigai (CN) : essay evaluation
- visuwords : visualize your words
- FoxType : Write in a more polite, friendly tone. (check it when you are writing the email to your professor)
Books (You can find them on Amazon)
- Word Power Made Easy
- On Writing Well
- Verbal Advantage
- Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know
- Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English
Computer Science
Graduate School
- CSRankings : sorted by the number of papers / collaborators
- A computer science graduate school survival guide
- The Ph.D Experience
Text Editor
- Atom : from github.com; support Markdown language
- Cmd Markdown
- Notepad++
- Sublime Text
Git Tutorials
- the simple guide : multi-language
- git book : multi-language
- Xuefeng Liao's Blog (CN)
- markdown (CN)
Virtual Machine
- Virtualbox : an open-source and free virtual machine
- VMware
Programming Language
- HTML (CN)
- W3 School : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP...
- threejs : JavaScript with examples
- Python installation tutorials (CN)
- Python tutorials (CN)
Algorithms
- visualgo : visualization algorithms
Blogs
- Xuefeng Liao
- Xudong Deng
- naaln : has a nice interactive UI
Domain Registration
Build a Website
- Hexo : for blogs; based on node.js
- jekyll : for blogs on github.io
- jekyll themes
- Font Awesome
- iconmonstr : icons database
- TEMPLATED : awesome responsive CSS & HTML5 templates
- Google Sites : easy to build you own website