A big motivation for this blog was sharing the software I use in my research. A lot of free tools are available and as good as commercial software. If you enjoy using the tools then promote them. Open source software’s strength is the user base.
Also, these tools are popular within academia, so tutorials can be google’d easily.
Operating system: Ubuntu Linux
Data analysis: R
Bibliography: Mendeley
Experimentation: PsychoPy
Writing reports: LaTeX
Literature searches: Google Scholar
Enjoy!