Livin' the life...

It's that glorious time once again, i.e. time to learn new software. The software choices are mainly 'required' for my research so it's nothing too fancy. They are:

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. (Source) [To use LaTeX on Vista, I first installed Basic MiKTeX 2.7, then TeXnicCenter. proTeXt seems like a good option as well but I'm yet to try it.]

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an extensible development platform, runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know us, and hopefully love us, as a Java IDE but Eclipse is much more than a Java IDE. (Source) [To use on Vista and Linux, I downloaded and installed Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.]

If you know any good tutorials on any of these, it would be great if you could share, thanks! :-)