Thank you Mendeley

I would like to thank Mendeley, for acknowledging my efforts to popularize the use of Mendeley. They have sent merchandise for future attendees of my Mendeley workshops in the twin cities.

It is a free reference manager and academic social network. It has been acquired by Elsevier and can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research:

• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research software
• Find relevant papers based on what you're reading
• Access your papers from anywhere online
• Read papers on the go,

How to be Google Power User

A new week dawns upon me

Good morning everyone.
A new week starting with yet another Monday, stay blessed everyone.


I was looking through my old onenotes and i stumbled upon a pdf file hidden in one of the pages.
ONENOTE shortcuts.
If you are a OneNote enthusiast you would certainly love this treat
Enjoy. Onenote Shortcuts keys

Outlook Tricks I found very very useful

Outlook manages my headache

1. Spare yourself repeated typing with Quick Parts
1. 
2. Write a message to be delivered at a future time



Just open a new mail message >Options>Delay Delivery


3. Create a folder for common searches
4. Filter emails to find relevant messages
5. Junk or Ignore unwanted email
6. Instantly create new emails and appointments
7. Automate recurrent tasks with Quick Steps
8. Sort your mail with Rules and Conditional Formatting
9. Send text messages from within Outlook
10. Automatically clear out unneeded messages
11. Manage read receipts
12. Sync Google Calendar with Outlook
13. Encrypted email
14. Post it notes
15. Time zones
16. Delegate access to your mail and calendar

Motivation and source:
The 18 best Outlook tips for increasing productivity: Become an Outlook Jedi with our expert tips

Python Programming

Python Programming. 

I am back everyone after staying away for the blog for a year and a bit.

As a head start to achieve my New Year Resolutions for Year 2017,
Already installed Atom and currently trying to write Latex and Python in it.
I have planned to polish my programming skills. Python has a pretty nice learning curve compared to C, C++.


Mathematica has been so much fun off late especially using it in my undergrad classes for students.

EGG Trick for hungry lab rats.

Trick for hungry lab rats.

Microwaved egg recipe

Going hungry or heading for ugly unhealthy snacks is not a good choice.Word of advice keep eggs in your fridge as they are perfect diet with all nutrients. Make Scrambled and poached eggs easily in a microwave, This works perfectly and taste great.

Peeled boiled egg, no problemo

Peeling a boiled egg perfectly is tricky messy and often a nuisance for everyone, us Graduate student included.

12 Easy Ways To Cook Eggs In A Microwave

The wiki how was also pretty helpful for pictorial guide for egg snack. I am a big fan of buzzfeed for years now for all sorts of tricks.

Research Proposal Flow Chart

I don't remember the source.  Please let me know if you find the creator.

Mendeley and MS word ActiveX conflict 429

Recently I bumped into a strange error

when trying to cite a paper for my proposal. Mendeley and MS word 2013 denied me any possible scenario to  do that. As if there was a huge fight between the two friends. Ultimately I searched the mendeley forums where a solution was posted by a life saver. After downloading and running the script, the pain and misery of looking at the two, Mendeley and Word document were gone and the friendship between them was finally restored. The problem showed up because both were run with admin privileges.
I hope this might help you guys someday.

Meal in a mug

Meal in a mug

It is obligatory to submit assignments and work on time. It comes without much emphasis yet it is equally important to have a nice refreshing meal and avoid starving or ending up eating trash food.

Next time you feel, you would be busy tomorrow the whole day and plan to catch some snacks, Instead just spend a minute and search this keyword. "Meal in a mug" 

You would be amazed how healthy food is such a easy to comeby. With only an oven and a cup, off course the groceries too.

I visited  the blog entry by Kelsey Damassa for "7 Easy & Yummy Meals to Make in Your Apartment". I plan to try out the yum recipes myself in near future.

How to write consistently boring scientific literature

How to write consistently boring scientific literature

Who would read this? Really?

The title says all about the content, and no one reads a narrative of doing something boring and silly. Yet one way to avoid ending up doing boring and silly stuff is to know what is boring and silly for others. An article by Kaj Sand-Jensen published online,in Ecology & Organismal Biology on 26 NOV 2007 [download link] discusses all about it. 

The author elaborates his findings in 10 points.

Avoid focus

Avoid originality and personality

Write l o n g contributions

Remove implications and speculations

Leave out illustrations  particularly good ones

Omit necessary steps of reasoning

Use many abbreviations and terms

Suppress humor and flowery language

Degrade biology to statistics

Quote numerous papers for trivial statement  Make sure that all written statements, even trivial ones, must be supported by one or more references