Informatics

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Informatics

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Description
Information tools.
License
GPLv3
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CAD Models
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Ergonomics

It can be quite straining to read loads of documentation as part of ones research. However, there are applications and web-browser plugins that can help to alleviate these hurdles.

Applications

Redshift (Free) & f.lux (Gratis) are applications that adjusts the computer display's color temperature based on where Earth the user are located and what time it is.

Web-browser

NoSquint is a Firefox-addon which allows one to zoom and change colours (text & background) on a 'site to site' basis.

Search Tools

IRC

IRC

Webbrowser

Builtin search tool

The Mycroft Project has two OpenSearch additions for RepRap here.
These will enable you to easily search both:

Documentation/organisation tools

Zim

Zim is a graphical text editor designed to maintain a collection of locally stored wiki-pages. Each wiki-page can contain text with simple formatting, links to other wiki-pages, attachments, and images. Additional plugins, like equation editor and spell-checker, are also available. The wiki-pages are stored in a folder structure in plain text files with wiki formatting. Zim is written in Python using GTK+ libraries. It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). --Wikipedia.