Linux

Handbrake

February 19, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Multimedia

handbrake

Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Quicktime

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.  It is free and open source and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Handbrake offers a variety of device presets to convert media to suit your device needs.  For instance, if you had a very large video file you wanted to scale down for viewing on a phone without taking up too much space, you could use an easy filter to convert the media for that specific situation.  Handbrake can also convert DVDs to video files, encode chapter markers, subtitles, and menus.

Tags: multimedia

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