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My Mac is the Pro Retina of the 2012, and now it's mostly Mac, Windows is not always on
Commonly used software has the following several:

1. Scientific mapping Software: Scidavis and plot

At present, the two software updates quickly, Scidavis has been to the 1D8 version, is the Mac Origin;plot updated to 2.0r12 version, the use of commands more complex, but also more effective, and now support Mavericks and 64-bit, just remove the curve fitting mode block, more regrettable. Some students may ask, since there are IGor Pro, QtiPlot and many other drawing software, why use Scidavis. Because some journals may require you to provide the version information of the drawing software, once the use of piracy may be rejected, in addition, some commercial drawing software companies will also set the backdoor in the software, if you use a cracked version, they may come to the door, or notify the Journal of the request to revoke your manuscript. Piracy is lax in the country, but it is very strict abroad. Moreover, Scidavis this software open source free, and easy to use, powerful, using it why not.
Scidavis:scidavis.1.d8.pkg
Plot Mac:app Store Search plot 2
Introduction to Scidavis: Mac research Software on 2:scidavis, science drawing software, Origin on Mac

2. Documentation Reference Software: Sente

Sente is really good, and now there is a free version, each database reference not more than 100. Sente can use DOI, also can use Google scholar search and so on to import literature information, Chinese literature import support is also very good, also support Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and web of Science's web page online import, but WOS built-in The search function is still not available. Custom reference formats are supported compared to Mendeley,sente.
See here for more information: MAC Research software 1:sente, document editing and management software



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3. Documentation Reference Software: Zotero
Add a document management software, feel better than EndNote and Sente, is Zotero Mac desktop version. Zotero's name must be no strangers, introduction can be seen here:
Http://www.yangzhiping.com/tech/zotero1.html
This is the Chinese version, after testing, Zotero metadata (meta data) fetch is better than Mendeley, the support for Web data more than Mendeley. The reference style of more than 6,000 journals or databases should basically meet the needs of everyone.
Sente:sente 6 for Mac (zip file)
zotero:https://www.zotero.org/download/
Some netizens response URL is not open, mirror address: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1B8HX0




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4. Paint software: Keynote and AutoCAD

Use Keynote to draw, require high precision or 3D graphics with AutoCAD to draw, very convenient. AutoCAD now has 2014 versions, supports Retina displays, and can use 3D commands to draw three-dimensional graphics; AutoCAD Update to version 2015
Keynote:app Store
AutoCAD: On the official website, students and educators can apply for a three-year trial version.




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5. Computing and programming software Fortran

Currently using FORTRAN mac:http://bbs.feng.com/read-htm-tid-7820600.html. Summed up some of the experience.





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6. Alternative to Matlab: Octave
The command form and MATLAB are basically fully compatible, and the operation speed is faster than MATLAB:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/... 8.2-for-osx-10.9.5/
Support for Chinese is better than Matlab



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7. Mathematica's Alternative: Wxmaxima
To be Maxima to run. Wxmaxima is the GUI of Maxima, which can do symbolic arithmetic. Thank the author andrejv for uploading the retina-supported version:
Https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3305126/wxMaxima.zip version number 14.09, replace
The old version of http://sourceforge.net/projects/. acos/5.30.0-macosx/.


2014.02.20 Update:Now Scidavis has been updated, the latest version of 1.D5, preliminary testing, under the MAC solved the load of large amounts of data reflected slowly, open the File window Chinese display tilt problem. ：

http://sourceforge.net/projects/... s.1.d5.pkg/download

For the students who often use Origin on Windows, this scidavis is too familiar, because it is basically a replica of origin.

To solve the problem of copying data to Scidavis in Excel, the row and column changes: Open the Excel file with Numbers, copy the data, and paste it into the Scidavis. If it is a TXT file, use LineBreak. : https://code.google.com/p/linebreak/. After the download, the Mac TXT file to convert the line mode to UNIX or DOS line-break mode, you can.

2014.03.24 Update:Plot Mac is now out of version 2.0: http://plot.micw.eu/. Domestic seems to be unable to access, to use * * *. The new version of Plot supports Mavericks and native 64-bit, runs faster, the use of commands basically remain unchanged, the only regret is to remove the curve fitting module.

2014.07.05 Update:How to set image output with publication quality in Scidavis--
1. After drawing the image in Scidavis, select File and Export Graph to select SVG format;
2. Open the SVG-formatted picture in Safari, then select Export to PDF ... in the file, or select Print ... →pdf→ storage as PDF;
3. This time the exported PDF is opened with preview, crop border, done!
Using this method is to export the best quality picture, because the exported vector graphics, so how many times magnification is still very clear, suitable for the publication.

2014.07.28 Update:Scidavis Update to version 1d8,:
Scidavis.1.d8.pkg
The current picture output problem has not been solved, using the method I recommended above to get vector pictures, with the quality of publications. After communicating with Scidavis's developers, they agreed to solve the problem in the near future.

2014.10.25 Update:AutoCAD update to version 2015, can be found on the U.S. official website, students and educators can get three years free trial;
Updated MATLAB free and open source alternative: Octave, has now been updated to 3.8.2, with a GUI, the operation speed is faster than MATLAB, and the command and MATLAB are fully compatible;
Update Mathematica's free and open source alternatives: Wxmaxima, which is a symbolic operation (Octave also has a toolkit for symbolic operations: Octsympy, which requires sympy to run, similar to the symbolic Toolbox on Matlab, the current version is Octsympy-0.1.1). If I had found this software earlier, I could use this to check the correctness of the results when I was studying calculus at the university.



2015.02.15 Update:Updated Scidavis and sente video profiles, plus an introduction to document management software Zotero
2015.02.17 Update:If you feel that the picture on your Word Mac is not clear on the Retina display, save it as a Doc instead of a Docx format, which is clear.
2015.03.16 Update:Update the Zotero image,Http://pan.baidu.com/s/1B8HX0, another Octave of the symbolic operation box can be entered by the command: Pkg install symbolic get

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