Web resources
Microscopy primer
Journal of Visualized experiments
Numbers in biology
Useful software
Open Source
R -for statistical computing
LaTeX - the one typesetting program you will ever need
Inkscape - vector graphics editor
ImageJ - powerful and simple image analysis
ParaView - data visualization
GIMP - photo editor
Blender - easy and powerful 3D graphics creation
POV-ray - stunning 3D graphics for those unafraid to code
Prezi - zooming presentations
Commercial Packages
COMSOL - multiphysics simulations
MATLAB - for anything you could possibly want to calculate
Eigenvector - multivariate statistical analysis for the rest of us
Personal resources
UCSB-themed beamer template
Raspberry Pi -Cheap computers for the lab