Some tools I like/use/tolerate

Human observer experiments || Statistics || Writing right || Backups || Productivity || Useful websites || Social media resources

    Human observer experiments

No psychophysicist's toolbox would be complete without the open source application PsychoPy. It's actually a great tool for preparing, executing, and managing most types of subjective experiments with almost any kind of visual stimuli.
For multi-reader multi-case ROC studies, I've used the Dorfman, Berbaum, & Metz (DBM) software and power estimation script in several experiments.

    Lies, damned lies, and statistics

For statistical analysis and generating fancy plots, I've come to (more or less) love R.
I use Rstudio as a graphical user interface for R.
R-bloggers is great site/blog for R tips and inspiration.
Also follow #rstats and these fine R handles on Twitter!

    Writing right

  • Scrivener for writing papers
  • Jabref for the tedious task of managing bibliography
  • Texmaker + Miktex for preparing manuscripts in Latex
  • latex2rtf to convert a Latex document to RTF (for use in Word)
  • Pandoc for converting from Latex to Word and anything else, really
  • Vim for writing in Vi in Windows
  • Grammar Girl when you don't know which witch is that

    backups, Backups, and MORE BACKUPS

If you really want to spend the rest of your life in the 5th circle of Inferno, don't backup any of your data (e.g. code, research, pictures of your cats). Hardware failures do happen, and they happen often. I make sure to have at least two copies on different media.

  • Git for revision control (so you always have previous versions of your file)
  • Allway Sync to make backing up that much easier (YMMV. I don't trust "sync" programs 100%)
  • and WinSCP for that 3rd layer of (offsite) backups

    Productivity

  • Taskline to easily manage my tasks in Outlook calendar
  • f.lux to make the computer screen a little bit less annoying at night
  • IrfanView as a general image viewer

    Useful websites

    Social media resources

I don't actively participate on Twitter, but here are a few interesting accounts I follow:

Note that I am not affiliated with any of these websites/companies/organizations nor do I receive any payment from them.