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I've started writing this blog of "science hacks" in order to decrease the learning curve for new members of my lab.  This will cover online productivity apps as well as a few tips and tricks for lab techniques.  My hope is that it might also be useful to other folks out there looking to maximize scientific productivity while minimizing the stress associated with the ever increasing demands of life in a modern laboratory.

Cheers- Chris

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Sep302009

My favorite science productivity apps--Dropbox

DateWednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:26PM

This is super cool.  Although there have been several programs that have tried to do this, Dropbox is the best that I have found to transfer and sync large files across several computers.  You can access your files from any computer that the program is installed on or from a web browser.  Best of all, it gives you 2 GB of storage for free (if you want 50GB there is a fee).
Key features:
1. Easily share files with collaborators
2. Super fast uploads and downloads
3. Looks like an ordinary folder on your PC or Mac
Science use case:
I think this is great for huge image files that I want to access on several computers or for sharing large illustrator files for figures with collaborators.
Video tutorial:

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