Technologies for teaching, learning and research
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.
Availability: Free Service Comparable: Project, Google Sites Trello is a free web-based project management application originally made by Fog Creek Software in 2011, that spun out to be its own company in 2014. Trello uses the “kanban paradigm” for managing projects, originally been popularized by Toyota in the 1980s for supply chain management. Projects are represented by boards, … Read more
Availability: Available at discount Comparable: Dia Microsoft Visio (viz-zee-oh) is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family. Visio can be useful for creating organization structures, network structures, room layouts, relational diagrams, process diagrams, flow charts, and more. Visio can also use UML (Universal Markup Language) to interface with database … Read more
Availability: Labs | Download Comparable: Parallels VMware Fusion allows Intel-based Macs to run operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare, BSD, or Solaris on virtual machines, along with their Mac OS X operating system. This is useful for using different software pieces based on different operating system platforms on the same computer. The Unity feature removes … Read more