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Quicktime

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Availability: Labs  |  Download (only needed for Windows) Comparable:  Quicktime Player is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity.  The basic player is built in to all versions of MacOS and is available for download for Windows.  The player can be used to play a wide variety of audio, … Read more

Grab

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Availability: Mac Labs  |  Built in to Mac OS Comparable: Snipping Tool Grab is an application created by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X that is used to take screenshots.  It supports capturing a marquee selection, whole window, whole screen, and timed screen. This application is pre-installed on all recent Macintosh systems.  It can be found using the Spotlight function (keyboard shortcut: CMD SPACE) … Read more

Prezi

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Availability: Free web application Comparable: Sway Prezi is a cloud-based  presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas.  The product employs a zooming user interface (ZUI), which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media, and allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D or parallax 3D space on the Z-axis. The idea behind Prezi is a paradigm shift from … Read more

Google Apps

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Availability: UNCC Community
Components: Docs, Sheets, Drawing, Slides
Comparable: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office

Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. UNC Charlotte has Google Apps for Education which  integrated with Active Directory.

Google Apps features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sites.

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Overview

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This site contains an inventory of technologies for teaching and research.

ParticleFlow

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Availability: Labs  |  Download Comparable: ParticleFlow is a two dimensional modeling software. This software, along with TopoDrive, are meant to simulate two groundwater processes: topography-driven flow and transport of fluid particles. It helps the user to better understand and determine groundwater flow processes.

Origin Pro

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Availability: Labs  |  Download Comparable: Excel Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones like QtiPlot or SciDAVis. Graphing support in Origin includes various 2D/3D plot types.  Data analyses in Origin include statistics, signal processing, curve … Read more

OpenOffice

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Availability: Labs | Free Download Comparable: Microsoft Office, Google Apps Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite.  The applications include: Writer – a word processor Calc – a spreadsheet program Impress – a presentation program Draw – a graphics program Math – a formula editor Base – a database management program Apache OpenOffice is available for … Read more

Octave

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Availability: Labs  |  Free Download Comparable: MatLab GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface (CLI) for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

NVivo

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Availability: Labs  |  Download Comparable: MaxQDA, Atlas Ti NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA)computer software package produced by QSR International. It has been designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

Pasco Data Studio

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Availability: Labs  |  Discontinued Comparable: PASCO Capstone PASCO Data Studio is a powerful, easy-to-use data collection and analysis software that works with ALL PASCO interfaces. It is the premier data acquisition, display and analysis software for high school and university sciences. *Note:  PASCO Data Studio is being transitioned to PASCO Capstone.  Development on PASCO Data Studio has … Read more

Physlet Physics

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Availability: Labs | Download Comparable: Physlet Physics are free physics applets and it’s free for non-commercial use. It’s made from the same team that makes Open Source Physics Project. Over 2,00 individual exercises have been created on Physlet. The applets create simple graphics to demonstrate the salient features of physical phenomena. Physlet Physics runs on Windows, Mac, … Read more

Putty

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Availability: Labs | Download Comparable:  (functions are built in to the terminals of MacOS and Linux operating systems) PuTTY is a free and open-source SSH telnet client and emulator network file transfer application. It allows users to remotely connect to Unix and other terminal systems via a secure channel.  It’s developed for Windows devices.

Python

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Availability: Labs  |  (see PyScripter) Comparable: Python is a general-purpose, interpreted high-level programming language.  Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C. The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale.

R

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Availability: Labs  |  Download Comparable: R64 Training: Project Mosaic Workshops R is a free open source software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs many platforms, such as UNIX. It can run on Windows and Mac OS X devices. R64 is the 64 bit version of R.

R64

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Availability: Labs  |  Download Comparable: R   R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs many platforms, such as UNIX. It can run on Windows and Mac OS X devices. R64 is the 64 bit version of R.

Respondus Lockdown Browser

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Availability: Labs Comparable: Respondus Lockdown Browser is a special type of downloadable browser that locks down online testing environments. The browser works with Blackboard, ANGEL, Desire2Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai. When a user activates Respondus Lockdown Browser it locks the page by disabling the ability to use print, copy, go to another URL, or other applications. … Read more

Rosetta Stone

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Availability: Labs | Download Comparable:  Sanako Rosetta Stone is a proprietary computer-assisted language learning software package. The software uses images, text, sound and video in a repetition for users to learn new languages. Rosetta Stone is available for home, educational, and business use through download or packaged software for Windows and Mac devices.

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