The Efficient Academic Google Group

Re: Presentations with Beamer and Lyx

2008-09-07T14:22:32Z

Interesting, I'm not familiar with restructured text, but I did have a
play with multimarkdown. I will try and give what you have done a
proper look.
I think the thing about Lyx, is that it will attract users who will
immediately reject a mark up solution, and miss out on an enormously
useful time saving tool.

Re: Presentations with Beamer and Lyx

2008-09-07T13:09:27Z

At the risk of self-promotion, I've written a solution based on
restructured text called "rst2beamer". (Find it at <http://
[link]>.)

I was faced with a solid season of lecturing (8 weeks of 2 hours a
day) and little desire to spend the time necessary to produce the

Re: New management style with : Twitter / Jott / Google document...

2008-09-06T11:00:50Z

our research group has a similar setup -- we each have a 'lab' tag in
google reader and tag items of interest with it, and i've built a
yahoo pipe that aggregates all the shared 'lab' items from members of
the group; everyone then subscribes to the aggregate feed. great way
to keep on top of interesting journal papers and blog posts, and is

Presentations with Beamer and Lyx

2008-09-05T13:14:01Z

Some time ago I asked about ways of creating lecture material where
you could produce the lecture slides, as well as properly formatted
handouts all in one document. The aim being to try and avoid needing
to keep two documents up to date and in sync (Powerpoint and Word)
Using beamer with Latex was suggested and indeed I have used it a few

Smart timetabling/programming software

2008-09-05T12:57:47Z

For something relatively simple, this is seems a very time consuming exercise.
As with some of my other questions, I'm not even sure what the
question is, but its how to deal with the juggling and rejigging of
timetables every year.
They seem to be tables in Word, and the dates need shifted to match

Re: Ideal Laptop for Students?

2008-09-05T09:54:36Z

Hi Farid,

Most likely this reply is too late for you, but maybe someone else
will find it useful.

At the moment I am in the same boat of searching the ideal computer
for a student. I did some study on that and here I share my thoughts.

I generally agree with Jan about the comfortable working place at

Re: New management style with : Twitter / Jott / Google document...

2008-08-25T14:32:03Z

Hi,
Recently we have started sharing google reader items amongst a group
of collegues. We felt that there was a need for some kind of common
'linkdump' / inspiration'dump'. So far is has been a really good
experiment, opening converstations about topics and perhaps opening
some new project ideas.

Re: New management style with : Twitter / Jott / Google document...

2008-08-24T17:54:10Z

So far 1 story to share. Marketing and organizing a little industry
conference. Three people working together from distnace offices. We
just created one Google-Account for all of us and did the whole work
up there in the cloud. Worked seamless. Anyone could access any
info at any time without any hassle. What was needed: a file naming

New management style with : Twitter / Jott / Google document...

2008-08-24T14:48:31Z

Hi all,

I am looking for experience sharing of people using any of new
internet communication ways, aka twitter, jott, google web
collaboration tools, ididwork, evernote, mobile web, skype or any
other voice conference, and why not facebook, youtube etc.

Any work experience, on how this might have been introduced into your

Re: BibMe - A Fast and Easy Bibliography Maker

2008-08-15T03:57:19Z

My two cents:

I'm using Jabref as my main reference manager, and I wouldn't use this
website since it doesn't support exporting to BibTex. Exporting in RTF
is nice, but ... I'd rather look up my source (if it's a book) on
Amazon.com and let Zotero capture the bibliography info. Then, I
export to BibTex from Zotero and import the BibTex file into Jabref.

BibMe - A Fast and Easy Bibliography Maker

2008-08-14T23:21:44Z

Has anyone tried out BibMe - [link] - it seems to be a very
cool bibliographic database. Its free, online application?

Right now it doesn't interwork with other applications, but it will
export a bibliography in RTF format for printing or inclusion in a
paper.

I've just started to use it and its easy and fun.

New version of PubSearch available for Mac and iPhone

2008-08-04T19:06:09Z

FYI (this is not an ad; I am just a regular user): PubSearch is
available for the Mac AND for the IPhone. It is donationware and, in
my experience works well for search PubMed. Let us know if you have a
better alternative or one that will work in Windows/Linux.
[link]

Re: Ideal Laptop for Students?

2008-07-17T19:09:18Z

Farid Behnia <beh...@gmail.com> 08-07-17 06.30
My personal advice:
+ Do you really need a laptop at all? Although my main machine has
been a laptop for the last 10-15 years I find that I pay better
attention in meetings, lectures, etc when I use pen and paper.
It might be better to have a good desktop with a really

Ideal Laptop for Students?

2008-07-17T13:30:25Z

Hi,

I'm planning to begin my graduate studies in a while and I'm looking
into buying a new laptop.

Basically I'm a Linux user and with the 3D desktop environments such
as Compiz I'm very unlikely to head for a Mac (Macs are rather
expensive for me as well). I also rely heavily on mindmapping for

Web Portal for online global collaborative research

2008-07-07T22:46:57Z

There's an interesting new collaborative research website called
MyNetResearch. It's at:

[link]

It enables researchers to find and work with other researchers from
across the world. It also has very powerful research tools. It is
also free to join.