Software and Hardware at the Lab
Software
Macintosh
Internet
- Safari - Apple's web browser
- Internet Explorer - MS web browser
- Mozilla 1.4 - The whole mozilla suite: web, email, news, web-composer
- Camino - Lightweight Mozilla-based web browser
- MacSFTP - SFTP client
- JellyfiSSH - GUI-assisted ssh client
- Mail - Apple's mail reader
- iChat - Apple's IM app
Math/Science
- OS X
- Calculator - Apple's simple calculator GUI
- Mathematica - Math and science-oriented programming
- Classic
- Graphing Calc. - Apple's graphing calculator
- MATLAB - Science and math programming
Microsoft Office
- A full install of the Office X suite including:
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
Multimedia/Viewing
- OS X
- Adobe Photoshop - Image manipulation
- Adobe Reader - A full-featured PDF reader, slower than Preview
- Audacity - Sound editor app
- DVD Player - Apple's DVD player
- Image Capture - Apple's digital-imaging device interface app
- iMovie - Edit movies
- iPhoto - Interface with digital cameras and organize photos
- iTunes - Play music, cd's, internet radio, Apple Music Store interface
- Preview - Apple's lightweight PDF/image viewer
- Quicktime Player - Plays movies, music, pictures in many formats
- RealOne Player - Plays RealAudio, RealVideo files
- Windows Media - Plays Windows Media format video and audio
- Classic
- Adobe PageMill - An aging publishing app
- OmniPage Pro - Extracts text from scanned images
- Director - Macromedia's object-oriented multimedia app
Programming
- The Mac programming environment features libraries such as OpenGL, APIs for audio and DSP, and dual processors.
- GNU/Unix
- Unix development tools - gcc, gdb, perl, python, fortran, etc.
- OS X
- Apple Developer Tools - IDE, interface composer, and general toolkit for developing with C, C++, Objective C, Java
- AppleScript - workflow scripting for OS X
- CodeWarrior - IDE for C, C++, Java development
- Dr. Scheme - Scheme interpreter and learning tool
- Runtime Revolution - multimedia application development / rapid prototyping a la HyperCard
- TeXShop - graphical text-setting environment using the TeX language
- Classic
- BBEdit Lite - Text-editor with syntax highlighting for various languages, incl. HTML. Used by classes.
- Alpha - An emacs-like advanced text editor
- HexEdit - Edits files in Hexadecimal mode
- HyperCard - Apple's graphical application developer
- MacGambit - A scheme interpreter
- Object Pascal - Pascal programming environment
- SICStus Prolog - Prolog interpreter
- THINK Pascal - Pascal programming environment
- ResEdit - For editing resource forks of Classic applications
Text Editing
- OS X
- MS Word - Alias to MS Word (which is installed in MS Office folder)
- TextEdit - Apple's lightweight text/RTF editor (successor to SimpleText)
- TeXShop - graphical text-setting environment using the TeX language
- Classic
- ClarisWorks - comparable to MS Word, predecessor to AppleWorks
- GhostScript - Postscript (.ps) file viewer
- MS Word 5.1 - old version of Word for compatibility service
- WordPerfect 3.5 - comparable to MS Word, provided for compatibility service
Linux
- Linux Software Availability
- You may also be interested in information about the new (March 2005) linux configuration.
Hardware
Macintosh
- 55 Mac G5's with 17" Apple LCD screen, running Mac OS 10.4, including two media stations with cinema displays, color scanners, DVD editing and DVD-to-video translation capabilities.
Linux
- 10 dual Intel (R) Xeon (TM) CPU 3.00 GHz with 2GB RAM 12 AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2700+ with 512MB RAM
- In order to use the Linux Machines, you MUST have a CS ACCOUNT. Click here to get a CS account.
Printers
- 2 Xerox N4525
- 1 HP Color LaserJet C4089A
- 1 HP LaserJet 8150 DN
Multimedia Peripherals
- Epson Perfection 4870 Scanner
- 2 HP Scanjet 7400C Scanners
- JVC HR-S7300 VCR