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Microsoft Office

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Productivity & Utility

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Availability: Windows Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download
Components: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access
Comparable: Google Apps, OpenOffice

Microsoft Office is an office suite of computer applications, servers, and services.   There are Microsoft Offices available for students and home use, small business use, and mid-size business use.

Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher.

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote, Microsoft Remote Desktop, and the Microsoft Communicator.  **NOTE:  Microsoft does not produce Publisher and Access equivalents for Mac.**  Access to these packages may be possible through the Citrix virtualization service.  Speak to your department consultant to find out more.

Microsoft Office 365 introduces cloud storage (via OneDrive, formerly known as SkyDrive) and document sharing and synchronization

The Microsoft Office Suite is installed by default on all UNCC computers running Windows or MacOS.  To download the suite for home or privately owned computers, check the UNCC software page.

NCAR Graphics

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: 

NCAR Graphics is a Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization.  NCAR Graphics is comprised of:

  • a library containing over two dozen Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors, streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, and more
  • an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, with both C and FORTRAN callable entries
  • a math library containing a collection of C and Fortran interpolators and approximators for one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional data
  • applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output
  • map databases
  • hundreds of FORTRAN and C examples
  • demo programs
  • compilation scripts
Tags: graphicstrm

Physlet Physics

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & ModelingAssessment & Tutorials

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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, and Linux devices.

Tags: graphicstrm

Picasa

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos.  It includes touch up and basic editing tools, geo-tagging to tie a picture to a location, facial recognition to categorize and catalog photos by the people in them, backup capabilities to safeguard your photos, and sharing capabilities to display your photos publicly or send them to targeted peers.

Tags: phototrm

Wordfast

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Languages

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Availability: Labs | Download
Comparable:  Google Translate, SDL Trados

Wordfast Pro is a standalone, multi-platform TM tool designed to address the needs of translators, language service providers and multinational corporations. Wordfast Pro offers a complete translation environment that stores your translated content for reuse on future projects, thereby maximizing efficiency, increasing overall consistency.

Tags: language

WinSCP

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Network & Communications

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Availability: Labs | Free Download
Comparable:  Fetch, Filezilla

WinSCP (Windows Secure CoPy) is an open source free SFTP, SCP, FTPS and FTP client. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality. Available only for Windows devices.

Tags: FTPFTPSSCPSFTP

uDig

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Math & Programming
Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: 

uDig is an open source desktop application framework software. The goal of uDig is to provide a Java solution for desktop GIS data access, editing, and viewing. uDig is distributed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). It’s available for Microsoft, Mac, and Linux devices.

Tags: GIStrm

TopoDrive

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: 

TopoDrive is a two dimensional modeling software. This software, along with ParticleFlow, 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.

Tags: GIStrm

Starry Night Pro

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: Labs | Download
Comparable:  Google Earth, Stellarium

Starry Night Pro is a realistic astronomy software premier package. Users have the ability to witness major astronomical phenomenon, research years of data and future astronomical predictions. Starry Night Pro is available for Windows and Mac devices.

Tags: trm

SPSS Amos

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

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Availability: Labs  |  Faculty/Staff  |  Citrix
Comparable: SAS, SPSS, MiniTab

SPSS Amos gives you the power to easily perform structural equation modeling (SEM) to build models with more accuracy than standard multivariate statistics techniques.

Tags: IBMmathstatisticstrm

SPSS

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling
Availability: Labs  |  Faculty/Staff  |  CitrixIbm-spss-statistics-17
Comparable: SAS, SPSS Amos

SPSS is among the most widely used programs for statistical analysis in social science. It is also used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations, and others.

SPSS includes descriptive statistics, bivariate statistics, linear regression, factor and cluster analysis.  The many features of SPSS Statistics are accessible via pull-down menus or can be programmed with a proprietary 4GL command syntax language.

Tags: IBMsocial sciencesstatisticstrm

Skype

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Network & Communications

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Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: Hangouts, Saba Meeting, WebEx

Skype is an application and service that connects multiple means of communication to computing devices.  The most outstanding feature allows you to place a phone call from your computer, a technology known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).  In addition, users can place audio calls from computer to computer, add a webcam to place a video call, and chat in a textual instant messenger format.  Skype also facilitates group calls and video conferences with people communicating simultaneously in several geographic locations.Read more…

Tags: video conferenceVoIP

SigmaPlot

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

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Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Excel, SPSS

SigmaPlot is a software package for scientific graphing and data analysis.  The software can read multiple formats (such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets), and can also perform mathematical transforms and statistical analyses.

SDL Trados

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Languages

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Availability: Labs | Download
Comparable:  Google Translate, Wordfast

SDL Trados is a computer assisted translation software suite that provides translation memory and terminology management.

Trados Studio 2011 has integrated machine translation and postediting into its translation workflow. If the appropriate parameter setting is made, Trados will insert a machine translation of a translation unit (TU) if no match is found in the translation memory. The translator can then post-edit the machine translation for added clarity. SDL Trados currently supports the following MT systems: Language Weaver, SDL BeGlobal, and Google Translate. Trados also supports the integration of Microsoft Translator and other MT system through its open API and plugin architecture on the SDL OpenExchange.

Tags: languagetrm

Rosetta Stone

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Languages

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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.

Tags: languagetutoring

Respondus Lockdown Browser

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Assessment & Tutorials

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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. Users are locked in the browser until they submit an assignment for grading. The browser is available for Windows and Mac devices.

Tags: testingtrm

R64

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

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.

Tags: graphicsstatistics

R

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

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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.

Tags: graphicsstatistics

Python

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Math & Programming
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.

Tags: programming languagepython

Putty

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Math & ProgrammingNetwork & Communications

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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.

Tags: SSHtelnetterminal emulator
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