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Parallels

February 09, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Productivity & Utility

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Availability: Download
Comparable: VMware Fusion

Parallels is a virtualization utility that allows you to run a Windows operating system environment within the MacOS.  The platform shares your computer’s hardware resources with the guest operating system according to customizable specifications.  Users can dedicate a set amount of memory, number of processors, and other computer resources to the virtual instance according the resources needed for the intended software.  Parallels also streamlines the interface between the two for an integrated experience.  It allows the user to use a Windows application without necessarily having to see the windows desktop and start menu.

Parallels is a competitor to VMWare Fusion.  View the Parallels website for more information.

Tags: hypervisoroperating systemvirtualization

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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