Aperture

December 11, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

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Availability: Discontinued by publisher
Comparable: Lightroom,  Picasa,

Aperture is a photo editing and management computer program developed by Apple Inc. for the OS X operating system, first released in 2005, and currently available in its App Store. The software handles a number of tasks common in post-production work such as importing and organizing image files, applying corrective adjustments, displaying slideshows, and printing photographs.

Features of Aperture include non-destructive editing, organization of photographs by keyword, faces (using face detection and recognition), and places (using GPS metadata embedded in image files), brushes for applying effects (such as dodge and burn, skin smoothing, and polarization), and exporting to several popular websites, including Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and Apple’s iCloud. The program has been widely reviewed by independent parties.

Apple discontinued listing Aperture in the Mac App Store on April 8, 2015. Aperture is being replaced with Photos for OS X.

MPlus

November 24, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

mplus

Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: SPSS Amos
Training: Project Mosaic Workshops

Mplus is a latent variable modeling program with a wide variety of analysis capabilities:

  • Exploratory factor analysis
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Item response theory analysis
  • Growth modeling
  • Mixture modeling (latent class analysis)
  • Longitudinal mixture modeling (hidden Markov, latent transition analysis, latent class growth analysis, growth mixture analysis)
  • Survival analysis (continuous- and discrete-time)
  • Multilevel analysis
  • Complex survey data analysis
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Monte Carlo simulation

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Tags: statisticstrm

TexMaker

November 24, 2014 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Math & Programming
Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
Comparable: 

Texmaker is a cross-platform open source LaTeX editor with an integrated PDF viewer. Texmaker is entirely a Qt app.

The editor includes full unicode support, inline spell checking, auto-completion, code folding and rectangular block selection. Regular expressions are also supported for the find-and-replace actions.  Texmaker includes wizards for the following tasks:

  • Generate a new document or a letter or a tabular environment.
  • Create tables, tabulars, figure environments, and so forth.
  • Export a LaTeX document via TeX4ht (HTML or ODT format).

Some of the LaTeX tags and mathematical symbols can be inserted in just one click and users can define an unlimited number of snippets with keyboard triggers.  Texmaker automatically locates errors and warnings detected in the log file after a compilation.  The integrated PDF viewer supports continuous, rotation and presentation mode. Direct and reverse synchronization between source TeX files and the resulting PDF file is supported via the SyncTeX support.  The Asymptote graphics language is also fully supported by Texmaker (for both editing and compilation).

TexMaker has replaced Kile in CLAS computer labs.

Tags: LaTeX