Productivity & Utility

Applications used to produce documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, bibliographies, or to accomplish clerical work and applications that are either a component of the operating system or helps to extend the operating system in some way including applications to visualize operating system environments. As well, applications focus on the direct transfer of files between two computers.

SmartDraw

April 04, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Design & VisualizationProductivity & Utility

Availability: 7 day free trial or purchase a license
Comparable: Visio, Dia, Google Drawing

SmartDraw logoSmartDraw is a diagramming tool that can be used to create flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, and floor plans. Users can create graph-based, chart-based, or schematic diagrams.

SmartDraw integrates with Microsoft Office. With just a click, drawings can be sent to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook. It’s also compatible with Visio, allowing the user to import existing Visio files and continue work in SmartDraw.

SmartDraw Cloud allows users to create and edit diagrams in their web browser, whether they are on Windows or Mac.

There’s a 7 day free trial available for both the browser-based or desktop version.

 

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Snagit

August 03, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: MultimediaProductivity & Utility

Availability: Contact CLAS IT
Comparable: Snipping Tool, Grab

SnagitSnagit is an image and video capture tool. Users can capture screenshots of their entire desktop, a region, window, or scrolling webpage. The dynamic editor allows users to comment over screenshots using textboxes, arrows, and shapes. Snagit also has video recording and editing capabilities. Audio is recorded by the microphone or the computer’s system audio.

The software runs on the Windows and Mac platform. The University owns licenses for this software, contact CLAS IT to request.

Snipping Tool

September 04, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: MultimediaProductivity & Utility

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Availability: Labs  |  Built in to Windows
Comparable: Grab

Snipping Tool is a screenshooting utility included in Windows Vista, 7 and 8. It can take screenshots of an open window, rectangular areas, a free-form area, or the entire screen. Snips can then be annotated using a mouse or a tablet, stored as an image file (PNG, GIF, or JPEG file) or an MHTML file, or e-mailed. Snipping Tool allows for basic image editing of the snapshot, with different colored pens, an eraser, and a highlighter.

To access the Snipping Tool, click the start menu and type “snip.”  The search should find the utility and you can press enter to launch.  If it does not find anything you can launch a file browser and navigate to C:\windows\system32 and double click on the SnippingTool.exe file.