The AstroStat Slog » ArXivReader.app http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 iFish in the archive http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2009/ifish-in-the-archive/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2009/ifish-in-the-archive/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:41:42 +0000 vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=1804 The iPhone App Store has a couple of apps that make life significantly easier for those of us inundated and overwhelmed by the stream of daily arXiv preprints. These are ArXivReader.app and ArXiv.app, both providing a means to browse and search the arXiv preprint database and both selling for 99c with the first selling for 99c and the second free. Check them out! The former even lets you save papers for off-line reading.

For me at least, the hardest part of going through the arXiv emails every day was to pick out the interesting papers in the deluge of text. These apps do the right thing and segregate the categories and highlight the titles. Fitts’ Law in action — suddenly the daily ritual is orders of magnitude more pleasant!

]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2009/ifish-in-the-archive/feed/ 0