Matlab

• YALMIP, SeDuMi, LMIRank (an efficient LMI solver)
• eps2pdf.m (a Matlab script to convert eps figures to pdf figures)
• matlab2tikz.m (a Matlab script to convert Matlab figures into TikZ figures.)

Latex

• Installation: TeX Live, MiKTeX (two Latex distributions)
• Tutorial: lshort (a short book for beginners)
• Packages: geometry, graphicx, amssymb, amsmath, amsthm (the most useful Latex packages)
• pgf (a powerful drawing package)
• Presentation: beamer (a package for making slides; here is a tutorial)
• Chinese: xeCJK, ctex (the standard package for Chinese documents)
• Editors: GNU Emacs+AUCTeX, WinEdt, Texmaker, TeXnicCenter (try them and choose one)
• JabRef (a Bib file manager)

Advice

• Advice to Young Researchers
• How to be a Winner: Advice for students starting into research work
• Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students
• The Laws of Herman
• How to Prepare Your Presentation — A Guideline

科学网博客

• 何毓琦
• 戴世强
• 李晓榕

Others

• Gmail (the best)
• Dropbox (a cloud storage and file synchronization service)
• Mendeley (a online reference manager)
• E-Letter (containing useful information in control field)
• eslpod (really good to improve your English listening)