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ScreenFlow

June 27, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Multimedia

Availability: Purchase license | Free trial

Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Expression Encoder, Screencast-O-Matic, BB FlashBack Pro

Screenflow logoScreenFlow is a screencasting and video editing software for the Macintosh platform. The software allows users to add transitions, annotations, text, audio and video filters, multi-channel audio mixing, chroma key and callouts. ScreenFlow has the ability to add mouse click effects, adjust mouse pointer size, and display keys that are pressed during the screen recording.

Screenflow 5 can record audio and video from connected iOS8 devices. Note: This feature requires iOS 8 or higher + Mac OS X 10.10 or higher + lightning connection to USB.

Videos can be exported directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, Wistia, or Telestream Cloud from within the application.

This software is only available for the Macintosh platform.

Tags: tutorial

GraphPad Prism

April 01, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Analysis & Modeling

GraphPad Prism logoAvailability: Department of Biological Sciences — Contact biologyhelp@uncc.edu to request your departmental license.

Comparable: R

GraphPad Prism combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. The software was originally designed for experimental biologists in medical schools and drug companies, but is now used by all kinds of biologists, social, and physical scientists to analyze, graph and present their graphical data.

Prism can create highly-customizable graphs that can be exported as high-resolution image files for publications, PowerPoint presentations, Web sites, Word documents, and more.

GraphPad Prism is available for both Windows and Macintosh computers.

 

Tags: statistics

Mendeley

February 08, 2016 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Productivity & Utility

Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Zotero, EndNote

Mendeley logoMendeley is a free reference manager and social network that helps users organize their research, collaborate with others, and discover new research. Search and sort references, documents and notes in one place. Users can read, annotate and add sticky notes to PDFs.

Mendeley generates citations and bibliographies in the desired style and is compatible with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice and BibTeX. Reading lists, references or full text articles can be shared either publicly or privately. Groups can be created to work on research assignments, share feedback, and write papers. Published research can be showcased with colleagues, peers, and classmates.

The program combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers. Users can store all of their research in one place and access across devices. Mendeley requires the user to store all basic citation data on its servers and storing copies of documents is at the user’s discretion.

Mendeley is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and provides 2GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize the library across desktop, web and mobile.