During the 2011-2012 academic year I produced a technology and productivity blog for graduate students and academics called DIY Ivory Tower. If I ever find time to add new posts to that site I’ll cross-post them here rather than retiring the entire DiYiT blog. For now, here are a few links to the most popular posts from that site.
Use Your Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera as Document Scanner
Use Dropbox to Sync and Store Your Zotero Database
Use Foxit Reader to Annotate PDFs
Use AutoHotkey, Microsoft Word, and doPDF to Grade Papers Electronically
Use Dropbox to Turn Microsoft’s Autorecover Feature into an Autosave Feature to Avoid Losing Work