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The Joys of Mac OSX Applications

Its been quite a while since I've switched to the mac, and one of the most consistant things that impresses me are the applications on the mac.Recently I came across Papers, which I would recommend to every PhD student. Papers is a like an iTunes for your research papers. It integrates every concievable index you would like to use: Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE, CiteSeer etc..You can search for related papers, and add them to your library in a snap. Additionally, if you cant find the pdf of your papers, you can just press Google, and it will google the pdf for you.There are just so many highly useful features in Papers that it would take me a while to list them. Now having all those features is actually no big deal, what is a big deal, is the interface, which blends with the Mac OSX environment. The application uses native leopard GUI features which make the application very very appealing.