What did I learn? Well I learned that the last couple of weeks was spent deep delving into areas of research about exactly the wrong areas. However, I never would have found the right area if I didn't go there.
I also learned some useful aspects of Sentiment, and Big Data, both of which I'll be posting on as well over the next couple of weeks.
Citavi
Citavi's core features are reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning.Reference management
Website: http://www.citavi.com
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 26 Feb 2015
VARD
VARD 2 is an interactive piece of software produced in Java designed to assist users of historical corpora in dealing with spelling variation, particularly in Early Modern English texts. The tool is intended to be a pre-processor to other corpus linguistic methods such as keyword analysis, collocations and annotation (e.g. POS and semantic tagging), the aim being to improve the accuracy of these toolsWebsite: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/
Code license: Open source, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Noncommercial
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
4th Dimension
4th Dimension is a graphic environment for developing database-driven single-user, client/server and Web applications.
Website: http://www.4d.com/products/4d2004/4dstandardedition.html
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
MUSE
Website:https://www.themuse.com
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Freedom

Freedom enforces freedom; you'll need to reboot if you want to get back online while Freedom's running. The hassle of rebooting means you're less likely to cheat, letting you focus on work. --
at least that's the idea.
Website: http://macfreedom.com/
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
writeLaTeX
WriteLaTeX is a free service that lets users create, edit and share their scientific ideas easily online using LaTeX, a comprehensive and powerful tool for scientific writing. Users can start projects with quality LaTeX templates for journals, CVs, resumes, papers, presentations, assignments, letters, project reports, and more.Website: https://www.overleaf.com/
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Evernote
Website: https://evernote.com/
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Scrivener
It allows the creation of documents from sub documents, ebook (epub and Kindle/mobi) and TeX and LaTeX export as well as ODF, PDF and Microsoft Word exports.
Website: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
ICE (Integrated Content Environment)
The online application comprises of a repository component built on MarkLogic (TM) which is an XML database. These components provide mechanisms for (a) Content Tagging, (b) Versioning, (c) Search, and (d) Project Spaces.
LearningMate ICE is an authoring and development workflow management system that enables authors to author content for the online product using Microsoft Word as the authoring environment. The core aspect of ICE is a custom toolbar within these Word templates that enable authors to preview their content in the format as it would appear in the final product. ICE also enables encapsulation of the authoring process from the media development process. This ensures that different profiles working as part of a product development process in ICE are able to contribute effectively through the workflow management system that ICE enables. In addition to this, ICE enables a comprehensive content repository that is powered by Marklogic XML database server. Marklogic enables extensive tagging, taxonomy, and powerful search features.
The Project Spaces made available as part of the online application allow for import from and export to specific formats/packages. Authoring features are exposed through MS Word using word macros that interact with web services exposed by the online application. All content created using ICE is stored in XML. All the binary media content is stored as is in the filesystem.
Website: http://www.usq.edu.au/ict/training/online/ICE
Code license: Open source, GNU GPL
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Sophie
Sophie is an electronic tool for authoring, collaborating, reading, and publishing rich media documents in networked environments. Built in Java it runs on a variety of platforms.It does not support either the epub or mobi formats instead using its own internal format.
Website: http://sophie2.org/trac/
Code license: Open source, Educational Community License (ECM)
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures. Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers.Website: http://www.quark.com/
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Blogger
Blogger is simple blog publishing software owned by Google.Website: http://www.blogger.com/home
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Edublogs
Edublogs is an educational blogging service for teachers and students to create, manage, and publish on their own WordPress sites. Provides cloud hosting and a simplified interface, as well as additional account options at the university level.Website: http://edublogs.org/
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging/microblogging platform with a focus on data sharing between individual blogs. Users can create and disseminate data in a visual or HTML editor, using standard Tumblr posting formats: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video.Built-in customization tools allow users to manipulate the appearance of their blog with little knowledge of web development. Tumblr also provides a CSS/HTML customization panel for more advanced users, including theme documentation and the ability to upload/alter theme asset files (e.g., CSS, JS).
Website: https://www.tumblr.com/
Code license: Open source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
TypePad
Website: http://www.typepad.com/
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Google Docs
Website: https://docs.google.com
Code license: Closed source
Last updated:25 Feb 2015
Anastasia
A software application that enables a user to search, manipulate and publish large SGML/XML documents. Anastasia was developed within an academic context to enable the manipulation of a single, large mark-up documents or a set of documents. It utilises two methods to interpret the structure of a mark-up document: First, it uses pattern-matching algorithms to process a hierarchical tree, similar to other XML software applications; Second, it interprets the document structure as a series of sequential 'events' which must be processed.Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/anastasia/
Code license: Open source, GNU GPL
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
NoodleTools
MLA, APA, Chicago / Turabian and most-common Bluebook forms as an integrated citing and note-taking platform for individual or group projects. Prompts for analysis of source types and is unique in offering teaching support and personal help on any citation. Instructor / librarian view allows teacher to comment on work-in-progress providing just-in-time feedback in-context. Archives copies of web pages and pdfs which can be annotated. Dashboard provides long-term access to a portfolio of work.The single license is only $15, but you might want to look into Zotero before you buy.
Website: http://www.noodletools.com/
Code license: Closed source
Last updated:25 Feb 2015
WriteRoom
Website: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
Code license: Closed source
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015
Docear
I use MindJet mindmaps all the time, and tend to return to them no matter what mindmapping program I test out. However, Docear is becoming my daily use program these days. With all of the add-ons and great functionality, MindJet simply isn't keeping up.
Website: http://www.docear.org/
Code license: Open source, GNU GPL
Last updated: 25 Feb 2015