When starting an application, it is recommended to send it into the background by putting & after the startup command.

Application	Purpose	Startup Command	Comments
Matlab	Mathematical computation	matlab	see Matlab and Comsol Startup Tips
Comsol (Femlab)	Mathematical and engineering computation	comsol	see Matlab and Comsol Startup Tips
Maple	Symbolic computation and document preparation	maple	see Maple Guide (pdf)
XPP	Dynamical systems analysis	xpp	see XPP Help and Tutorial
Grind	Analysis of ordinary differential equations	grind [model]	see Grind Tutorial and User Guide (pdf)
Grace	Plotting tool	grace	see Grace Home Page
Acrobat Reader	Pdf file reader	acroread
Firefox	Internet browser	firefox
Thunderbird	Email program	thunderbird	see Configuring Email in Thunderbird
K3b	CD/DVD writing	k3b	see K3b User Tips
X-CD-Roast	CD/DVD writing	xcdroast	see X-CD-Roast User Tips
G95	Fortran 95 compiler	g95	see The G95 project
GFortran	Gnu Fortran 95 compiler	gfortran	see GCC Wiki GFortran project

To run a Windows application, double-click on the appropriate desktop icon.

Application	Purpose
Microsoft Word	Word processing and document preparation
Microsoft Power Point	Presentation preparation
Microsoft Excel	Spreadsheet data manipulation
WinEdt + MiKTeX	Word processing and document preparation
Adobe Acrobat	Creation of pdf documents
Maple	Symbolic computation and document preparation
Ghostprint + Ghostview	Viewing and conversion of postscript files
WinZip	File compression and decompression
SSH/SFTP	Secure shell connection and file transfer
XPP	Dynamical systems analysis
Gepasi	Modelling of biochemical systems
Smoldyn	Cell-scale simulations of biochemical systems
Cygwin X Server	X server for running XPP
RAD Tools	Media file conversion
Nero Suite	CD/DVD writing
Microsoft Media Player, Real Player, Quick Time, DivX Player, Nero Media Player	Media players

• Pete's LaTeX Tricks
• Templates
  • Breadth Report
  • Thesis
  • Final Oral Programme

• XPP-aut (X phase plane + Auto)
• HTML
• HTML Code Tutorial
• Idocs Guide to HTML
• WebCom HTML Guide
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Unix
  • UNIX Tutorial for Beginners – Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK
  • UNIX Help for Beginners – Unix Guru Universe
  • Common UNIX Commands – sharefile.com
• Java
• Java Tutorial (March 1999)
• Java Tutorial (July 1996)