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My favorites about WORK, LIFE and ACADEMIC STUDY, including software, websites, books, etc.
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# Favorites

My favorites about WORK, LIFE and ACADEMIC STUDY, including software, websites, books, etc.



## Highlighted (strongly recommend)

- [BandiZip](http://www.bandisoft.com/bandizip/) : The best all-in-one free zip archiver

- [Potplayer](http://potplayer.daum.net/) : The best media player, suitable for high resolution.

- [HandBrake](https://handbrake.fr/) : An Excellent Open Source Video Transcoder

- [TEMPLATED](https://templated.co/) : awesome responsive CSS & HTML5 templates

- [Collocation Dictionary](http://collocations.enacademic.com/) : check collocations for English words



## Work & Life

### Efficiency

- [Evernote](https://evernote.com) ([CN](https://www.yinxiang.com/)) : Knowledge management software

- [Wunderlist](https://www.wunderlist.com/) : To do List app, light software

- [Trello](https://trello.com/) : Use "board" to manage your life, a good tool for team cooperation

- [XMind](http://www.xmind.net/) ([CN](http://www.xmindchina.net/)): Flowchart software, free for the basic functions

- [ProcessOn](https://www.processon.com/) : an online flowchart maker website

- [TeamViewer](https://www.teamviewer.us/) : Remote Desktop Access, Remote Support and Online Meetings



### Converter

- [HandBrake](https://handbrake.fr/) : highly recommend, can deal with variable frame rate video.

- [Mediacoder](http://www.mediacoderhq.com/) ([CN](http://www.mediacoder.com.cn/)) : small size converter

- [Speechnotes](https://speechnotes.co/) ([Chrome Add-in](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speechnotes-speech-to-tex/opekipbefdbacebgkjjdgoiofdbhocok)) : Voice to text



### Media

- [BandiZip](http://www.bandisoft.com/bandizip/) : The best all-in-one free zip archiver

- [Honeycam](http://www.bandisoft.com/honeycam/) : Simple and easy GIF Maker (limited free functions)

- [Potplayer](http://potplayer.daum.net/) : The best media player I've ever used

- [flickr](https://www.flickr.com/) : a large photo-sharing website



### Music

- [synthesia](http://www.synthesiagame.com/) : an easy-to-play piano game

- [yinseku](http://www.yinseku.com/) : Virtual Studio Technology Instruments(VSTI) website

- [midifan](http://www.midifan.com/) : Virtual Studio Technology Instruments(VSTI) website



### Have Fun

- [Medium](https://medium.com/) : read it at any time

- [Regex Crossword](https://regexcrossword.com/)



## Academic Resources

### Paper

- [Mendeley](https://www.mendeley.com/) : most popular paper management software, good for Windows

- [papers](http://papersapp.com/) : paper management software, good for Mac OS

- [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/) : e-prints latest papers

- [Web of Science](www.isiknowledge.com)



### Engineering Online Groceries

- [McMaster](https://www.mcmaster.com/) : Mechanical components grocery

- [Grainger Products](https://www.grainger.com/) : Electrical components

- [SparkFun Electronics](https://www.sparkfun.com/) : Electronic components

- [Pololu](https://www.pololu.com/) : Robotics & Electronics

- [RobotShop](https://www.robotshop.com/) : Robot Shop



### Mathematics

- [Wolfram MathWorld](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) : the web's most extensive mathematics resource

- [System of Equations Calculator](https://www.symbolab.com/solver/system-of-equations-calculator)

- [GeoGebra Graphing Calculator](https://www.geogebra.org/graphing) : easy to plot your graph

- [betterexplained.com](https://betterexplained.com/) : Math without endless memorization.

- [Linear Algebra Done Right](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11080-6)

- [Linear Algebra Done Wrong](https://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/book.pdf)



### LaTex

- [Overleaf](https://www.overleaf.com/) : free online collaborative LaTex writing tool

- [Short Tutorial (CN)](http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_90444ed201016iq6.html) : 30 mins LaTex tutorial

- [LaTex Command Summary](https://www.ntg.nl/doc/biemesderfer/ltxcrib.pdf)

- [LaTex Wiki](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX)



### English Learning

#### Software

- [YouDao Dict](http://dict.youdao.com/?keyfrom=cidian) : contains ***Longman*** and ***Collins*** English-Chinese bilingual dictionary

- [Lingoes](http://www.lingoes.cn/) : light and extensible dictionary software for Windows



#### Online Dictionary

- [Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)](https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/) : find your words in the corpus

- [Collocation Dictionary](http://collocations.enacademic.com/) : check collocations for English words

- [Etymology Dictionary](http://etymonline.com/)

- [Rhyme Dictionary](https://www.rhymezone.com/)

- [dictionary.com](http://www.dictionary.com/) : American English, easy to learn, word origin in world map, can be cited

- [thesaurus.com](http://www.thesaurus.com/) : synonyms and antonyms of words, useful for writing

- [vocabulary.com](https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/) : explain the meaning with plain words and vivid examples.

- [Merriam Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/)

- [Longman Dictionary](https://www.ldoceonline.com/)



#### Checker

- [Test Your Vocabulary](http://testyourvocab.com/)

- [Grammarly](www.grammarly.com/) : Chrome & Office Add-in are very useful.

- [nounplus](https://www.nounplus.net/) : grammar checker online

- [Hemingway Editor](http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) : essay highlight

- [pigai (CN)](http://pigai.org/) : essay evaluation

- [visuwords](https://visuwords.com/) : visualize your words

- [FoxType](labs.foxtype.com/politeness) : 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](http://csrankings.org/) : sorted by the number of papers / collaborators

- [A computer science graduate school survival guide](http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/azuma.html)

- [The Ph.D Experience](http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/phd.html)



### Text Editor

- [Atom](https://atom.io/) : from github.com; support Markdown language

- [Cmd Markdown](https://www.zybuluo.com/mdeditor)

- Notepad++

- Sublime Text



### Git Tutorials

- [the simple guide](https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/) : multi-language

- [git book](https://git-scm.com/book) : multi-language

- [Xuefeng Liao's Blog (CN)](http://www.liaoxuefeng.com/wiki/0013739516305929606dd18361248578c67b8067c8c017b000)

- [markdown (CN)](http://www.jianshu.com/p/q81RER)



### Virtual Machine

- [Virtualbox](www.virtualbox.org) : an open-source and free virtual machine

- VMware



### Programming Language

- [HTML (CN)](https://deerchao.net/tutorials/html/html.htm)

- [W3 School](https://www.w3schools.com/) : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP...

- [threejs](https://threejs.org/) : JavaScript with examples

- [Python installation tutorials (CN)](http://share.fromwiz.com/share/s/3sW4qc0VC40a23KcyH11Fcav3iQVgl3VjQxj2gBC4G3Mq35h)

- [Python tutorials (CN)](http://www.pythondoc.com/)



### Algorithms

- [visualgo](http://visualgo.net/) : visualization algorithms



### Blogs

- [Xuefeng Liao](http://www.liaoxuefeng.com/)

- [Xudong Deng](http://www.jianshu.com/u/1562c7f16a04)

- [naaln](https://blog.naaln.com/) : has a nice interactive UI



### Domain Registration

- [GoDaddy](https://www.godaddy.com/) : for international

- [wanwang](https://wanwang.aliyun.com/) : for mainland

- [whois](https://whois.net/) : lookup registration information



### Build a Website

- [Hexo](https://hexo.io/docs/index.html) : for blogs; based on node.js

- [jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) : for blogs on github.io

- [jekyll themes](https://jekyllthemes.io/)

- [Font Awesome](http://fontawesome.io/)

- [iconmonstr](https://iconmonstr.com/) : icons database

- [TEMPLATED](https://templated.co/) : awesome responsive CSS & HTML5 templates

- [Google Sites](https://sites.google.com/) : easy to build you own website



### Security

- [Smashing the Stack](http://insecure.org/stf/smashstack.html)

- [Guide to x86 Assembly](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html)