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 * '''Active TCL''' - Active``State provides a newer version of Tcl/Tk than Apple. It has the added advantage of being a Universal binary that works on PPC and x86, unlike the version that comes with MacOS X 10.4, which is a PPC version that has to run in emulation on an x86 like our iMacs. MacOS X 10.5 has a more current (and Universal) version of Tcl/Tk and consequently doesn't need ActiveTCL. On the PC ActiveTCL provides Tcl/Tk, as Microsoft ships no version. [http://www.activestate.com/Products/activetcl/ ActiveTCL website]
 * '''Firefox''' - a popular web browser. [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox website]
 * '''Gimp''' - An opensource image editing program. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but free instead of over $600, and it does everything a non-poweruser needs. [http://www.gimp.org/ Gimp website] [http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ Gimp.app website]
 * '''Linger''' - A program written in Tcl/Tk for doing language experiments, particularly self-paced reading studies. [http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Linger/ Linger website]
 * '''R''' - The R statistics package. The install includes the optional [http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran GNU Fortran] in {{{/usr/local/bin/}}} on the Macs for compiling some R packages that aren't available as binaries. [http://www.r-project.org/ R website]
 * '''Praat''' - A phonetic analysis program. [http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Praat website]
 * '''Vim''' - Version 7.2 is installed on the PCs. On the Macs is Mac``Vim, which is the Mac GUI version. The current version of Mac``Vim uses Vim 7.2.49, whereas the terminal version on MacOS X 10.4 is 6.2 and on 10.5 is 7.2.22 [http://www.vim.org Vim website] [http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ MacVim website]
 * '''Git''' - A distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds of Linux fame. On Macs in the lab it's installed in {{{/usr/local/git/bin}}}, and on Linux boxes in {{{/usr/bin/}}}. In the CS environment it's installed in {{{/p/hlp/corpora/bin}}}. [http://git.or.cz/ Git website]
 * '''Bazaar''' - A distributed version control system written and maintained by [http://canonical.com/ Canonical Software]. It is conceptually similar to Git, but is designed to be easier to use, especially if you have experience with CVS or Subversion. Bazaar can be used in a distributed or centralized manner. [http://bazaar-vcs.org/ Bazaar website]
 * '''Mercurial''' - Another popular distributed version control system. [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ Mercurial website]
 * '''NITE XML Toolkit''' - Speech and video annotation tool. [http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/NITE/index.html Nite XML Toolkit website]
 * '''Transcriber''' - Speech and video annotation software written in Tcl at UPenn. [http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php Transcriber website]
 * '''ANVIL''' - Video annotation tool. [http://www.anvil-software.de/ ANVIL website]
 * '''Elan''' - Speech and video annotation tool written in Java from MPI. [http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/ Elan website]
 * '''Open``Office.org''' - An opensource cross platform office suite from Sun descended from Star``Office. [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org website]
 * '''Blender''' - Opensource 3D animation program. Has a superset of Poser functionality, Python scripting that actually works, and it's free. [http://www.blender.org/ Blender website]
 * '''MPEG Streamclip''' - A free (not opensource) program for converting between video formats (including the audio stream), resizing video, and trimming video clips. ```platypus``` and ```echidna``` have the necessary Quicktime plugin for it to convert to and from MPEG2 (needed for e.g. DVD ripping). [http://www.squared5.com/ MPEG Streamclip website]		  * '''Active TCL''' - Active``State provides a newer version of Tcl/Tk than Apple. It has the added advantage of being a Universal binary that works on PPC and x86, unlike the version that comes with MacOS X 10.4, which is a PPC version that has to run in emulation on an x86 like our iMacs. MacOS X 10.5 has a more current (and Universal) version of Tcl/Tk and consequently doesn't need ActiveTCL. On the PC ActiveTCL provides Tcl/Tk, as Microsoft ships no version. [[http://www.activestate.com/Products/activetcl/|ActiveTCL website]]
 * '''Firefox''' - a popular web browser. [[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/|Firefox website]]
 * '''Gimp''' - An opensource image editing program. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but free instead of over $600, and it does everything a non-poweruser needs. [[http://www.gimp.org/|Gimp website]] [[http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/|Gimp.app website]]
 * '''Linger''' - A program written in Tcl/Tk for doing language experiments, particularly self-paced reading studies. [[http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Linger/|Linger website]]
 * '''R''' - The R statistics package. The install includes the optional [[http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran|GNU Fortran]] in {{{/usr/local/bin/}}} on the Macs for compiling some R packages that aren't available as binaries. [[http://www.r-project.org/|R website]]
 * '''Praat''' - A phonetic analysis program. [[http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/|Praat website]]
 * '''Vim''' - Version 7.2 is installed on the PCs. On the Macs is Mac``Vim, which is the Mac GUI version. The current version of Mac``Vim uses Vim 7.2.49, whereas the terminal version on MacOS X 10.4 is 6.2 and on 10.5 is 7.2.22 [[http://www.vim.org|Vim website]] [[http://code.google.com/p/macvim/|MacVim website]]
 * '''Git''' - A distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds of Linux fame. On Macs in the lab it's installed in {{{/usr/local/git/bin}}}, and on Linux boxes in {{{/usr/bin/}}}. In the CS environment it's installed in {{{/p/hlp/corpora/bin}}}. [[http://git.or.cz/|Git website]]
 * '''Bazaar''' - A distributed version control system written and maintained by [[http://canonical.com/|Canonical Software]]. It is conceptually similar to Git, but is designed to be easier to use, especially if you have experience with CVS or Subversion. Bazaar can be used in a distributed or centralized manner. [[http://bazaar-vcs.org/|Bazaar website]]
 * '''Mercurial''' - Another popular distributed version control system. [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/|Mercurial website]]
 * '''NITE XML Toolkit''' - Speech and video annotation tool. [[http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/NITE/index.html|Nite XML Toolkit website]]
 * '''Transcriber''' - Speech and video annotation software written in Tcl at UPenn. [[http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php|Transcriber website]]
 * '''ANVIL''' - Video annotation tool. [[http://www.anvil-software.de/|ANVIL website]]
 * '''Elan''' - Speech and video annotation tool written in Java from MPI. [[http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/|Elan website]]
 * '''Open``Office.org''' - An opensource cross platform office suite from Sun descended from Star``Office. [[http://www.openoffice.org/|OpenOffice.org website]]
 * '''Blender''' - Opensource 3D animation program. Has a superset of Poser functionality, Python scripting that actually works, and it's free. [[http://www.blender.org/|Blender website]]
 * '''MPEG Streamclip''' - A free (not opensource) program for converting between video formats (including the audio stream), resizing video, and trimming video clips. ```platypus``` and ```echidna``` have the necessary Quicktime plugin for it to convert to and from MPEG2 (needed for e.g. DVD ripping). [[http://www.squared5.com/|MPEG Streamclip website]]
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 * '''Apple Developer Tools''' - Located in {{{/Developer}}} are the Apple developer tools including XCode and Interface builder. This also puts GCC in {{{/usr/bin/}}}. [http://developer.apple.com/ Apple Developer Connection]
 * '''Adium''' - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. [http://www.adiumx.com/ Adium website]
 * '''Aquamacs Emacs''' - A Mac friendly GUI for Emacs. [http://aquamacs.org/ Aquamacs website]
 * '''Python''' - The default version of Python that comes with MacOS X 10.4 is rather old (2.3.5) and doesn't support readline command line editing and history. The official (non-Apple) Python provides a more up to date version with readline. MacOS X 10.5 comes with version 2.5.1, but the current version is 2.6, which is installed on all the Macs currently. [http://www.python.org/download/ Python website]
 * '''Mac``Te``X 2007''' - The Mac``Te``X users group provides a package that includes a recent version of the Te``Te``X port of La``Te``X along with the Te``X``Shop La``Te``X editor and Bib``Desk Bib``Te``X bibliography manager. [http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX website]
 * '''Neo``Office''' - A Mac native port of the Open``Office.org office suite. [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice website]
 * '''Remote Desktop Connection''' - Microsoft provides a program to allow Mac users to connect remotely to a PC running Windows. [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx Microsoft RDC Mac website]
 * '''SBCL''' - Steel Bank Common Lisp. An opensource implementation of ANSI Common Lisp, forked from Carnegie Mellon University's CMUCL. [http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/ SBCL website]
 * '''Mac``FUSE''' - A kernel extension that allows user-space file systems. Useful for mounting NTFS on a Mac and for mounting a file system over ssh. [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE website]
 * '''Mac``Fusion''' - A GUI front end for Mac``FUSE. Particularly useful for SSHfs. [http://www.macfusionapp.org/index.html MacFusion website]
 * '''Colordiff''' - A perl script that color highlights diffs. Very useful for software development. Several DVCS systems will use it if installed. [http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/ Colordiff website]
 * '''subversion''' - A popular version control system. The Developer Tools for Mac OS X 10.5 comes with subversion, but installers exist for 10.4. [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion website]
 * '''Cyberduck''' - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X. [http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck website]		  * '''Apple Developer Tools''' - Located in {{{/Developer}}} are the Apple developer tools including XCode and Interface builder. This also puts GCC in {{{/usr/bin/}}}. [[http://developer.apple.com/|Apple Developer Connection]]
 * '''Adium''' - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. [[http://www.adiumx.com/|Adium website]]
 * '''Aquamacs Emacs''' - A Mac friendly GUI for Emacs. [[http://aquamacs.org/|Aquamacs website]]
 * '''Python''' - The default version of Python that comes with MacOS X 10.4 is rather old (2.3.5) and doesn't support readline command line editing and history. The official (non-Apple) Python provides a more up to date version with readline. MacOS X 10.5 comes with version 2.5.1, but the current version is 2.6, which is installed on all the Macs currently. [[http://www.python.org/download/|Python website]]
 * '''Mac``Te``X 2011''' - The Mac``Te``X users group provides a package that includes a recent version of the Te``Te``X port of La``Te``X along with the Te``X``Shop La``Te``X editor and Bib``Desk Bib``Te``X bibliography manager. [[http://www.tug.org/mactex/|MacTeX website]]
 * '''Neo``Office''' - A Mac native port of the Open``Office.org office suite. [[http://www.neooffice.org/|NeoOffice website]]
 * '''Remote Desktop Connection''' - Microsoft provides a program to allow Mac users to connect remotely to a PC running Windows. [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx|Microsoft RDC Mac website]]
 * '''SBCL''' - Steel Bank Common Lisp. An opensource implementation of ANSI Common Lisp, forked from Carnegie Mellon University's CMUCL. [[http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/|SBCL website]]
 * '''Mac``FUSE''' - A kernel extension that allows user-space file systems. Useful for mounting NTFS on a Mac and for mounting a file system over ssh. [[http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/|MacFUSE website]]
 * '''Mac``Fusion''' - A GUI front end for Mac``FUSE. Particularly useful for SSHfs. [[http://www.macfusionapp.org/index.html|MacFusion website]]
 * '''Colordiff''' - A perl script that color highlights diffs. Very useful for software development. Several DVCS systems will use it if installed. [[http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/|Colordiff website]]
 * '''subversion''' - A popular version control system. The Developer Tools for Mac OS X 10.5 comes with subversion, but installers exist for 10.4. [[http://subversion.tigris.org/|Subversion website]]
 * '''Cyberduck''' - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X. [[http://cyberduck.ch/|Cyberduck website]]
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Platypus is a 20" iMac running MacOS 10.5 Platypus is a 20" iMac running MacOS 10.6
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 * '''Matlab 7.5''' [http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ Matlab website]
 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html UR EndNote license site]		  * '''Matlab 7.5''' [[http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/|Matlab website]]
 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html|UR EndNote license site]]
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Echidna is a 24" iMac running MacOS 10.5 Echidna is a 24" iMac running MacOS 10.6
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]  * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html UR EndNote license site]		  * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html|UR EndNote license site]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]  * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]  * '''Microsoft Office 2004''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2008''' [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx Microsoft MacBU website]
 * '''Stat``Plus``:mac LE''' [http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/ StatsPlus website] (Microsoft sanctioned replacement for Excel's Analysis Tool``Pack add-in, which doesn't exist in Office 2008 due to lack of Visual Basic support)
 * '''Poser 7''' [http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/poser/index.html SmithMicro Poser website]
 * '''Photoshop CS4''' [http://www.adobe.com/ Adobe website]		  * '''Microsoft Office 2008''' [[http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx|Microsoft MacBU website]]
 * '''Stat``Plus``:mac LE''' [[http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/|StatsPlus website]] (Microsoft sanctioned replacement for Excel's Analysis Tool``Pack add-in, which doesn't exist in Office 2008 due to lack of Visual Basic support)
 * '''Poser 7''' [[http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/poser/index.html|SmithMicro Poser website]]
 * '''Photoshop CS4''' [[http://www.adobe.com/|Adobe website]]
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 * '''7-zip''' - An opensource file compression program that can handle zip, gzip, bzip2, rar, tar, and 7zip formats. [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip website]
 * '''Active``Python''' - Active``State provides a current version of Python for Windows that includes the Pythonwin IDE that does syntax highlighting and omnicompletion. [http://www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/ ActivePython website]		  * '''7-zip''' - An opensource file compression program that can handle zip, gzip, bzip2, rar, tar, and 7zip formats. [[http://www.7-zip.org/|7-Zip website]]
 * '''Active``Python''' - Active``State provides a current version of Python for Windows that includes the Pythonwin IDE that does syntax highlighting and omnicompletion. [[http://www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/|ActivePython website]]
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 * '''Pidgin''' - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. [http://www.pidgin.im Pidgin website]
 * '''PuTTY''' - Provides ssh, sftp, and scp programs for Windows. [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY website]
 * '''SSH and SFTP''' - official SSH and SFTP clients site-licensed by University IT. [http://www.rochester.edu/it/security/data/ssh_info.php IT SSH download page]
 * '''WinSCP''' - Opensource SFTP, SCP, and FTP client. [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinSCP download page]
 * '''TortoiseSVN''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle SVN source repositories. [http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ TortoiseSVN website]
 * '''Tortoise``Hg''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Mercurial source repositories. [http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/ TortoiseHg website]
 * '''Tortoise``Git''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Git source repositories. [http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ TortoiseGit website]
 * '''Notepad++''' - An editor that looks much like the built-in Windows Notepad, but has features such as syntax highlighting, line numbering, awareness of Windows vs Unix end-of-line characters, brace matching, and more. [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm Notepad++ website]		  * '''Pidgin''' - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. [[http://www.pidgin.im|Pidgin website]]
 * '''PuTTY''' - Provides ssh, sftp, and scp programs for Windows. [[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/|PuTTY website]]
 * '''SSH and SFTP''' - official SSH and SFTP clients site-licensed by University IT. [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/security/data/ssh_info.php|IT SSH download page]]
 * '''WinSCP''' - Opensource SFTP, SCP, and FTP client. [[http://winscp.net/eng/index.php|WinSCP download page]]
 * '''TortoiseSVN''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle SVN source repositories. [[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/|TortoiseSVN website]]
 * '''Tortoise``Hg''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Mercurial source repositories. [[http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/|TortoiseHg website]]
 * '''Tortoise``Git''' - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Git source repositories. [[http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/|TortoiseGit website]]
 * '''Notepad++''' - An editor that looks much like the built-in Windows Notepad, but has features such as syntax highlighting, line numbering, awareness of Windows vs Unix end-of-line characters, brace matching, and more. [[http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm|Notepad++ website]]
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 * '''Poser 7''' [http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/index.html SmithMicro Poser website]
 * '''Microsoft Office 2003''' [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx MS Office website]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html UR EndNote license site]
 * '''Cygwin''' - A program provided by Red``Hat that gives you a Unix command line for Windows. [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin website]
 * '''Mik``Te``X''' - A La``Te``X distribution for Windows that includes the Te``Xnic``Center editor. [http://miktex.org/ MikTeX website]
 * '''SQL Server 2005''' - Microsoft's database system built on the Sybase database. If you want to use the Ex``Builder analysis software, this must be installed. [http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx SQL Server 2005 Express website]
 * '''VMware Player''' - VMware Player allows you to run VMware virtual machines without buying the full VMware program. It can't make new virtual machines though. [http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player website]		  * '''Poser 7''' [[http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/index.html|SmithMicro Poser website]]
 * '''Microsoft Office 2003''' [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx|MS Office website]]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html|UR EndNote license site]]
 * '''Cygwin''' - A program provided by Red``Hat that gives you a Unix command line for Windows. [[http://www.cygwin.com/|Cygwin website]]
 * '''Mik``Te``X''' - A La``Te``X distribution for Windows that includes the Te``Xnic``Center editor. [[http://miktex.org/|MikTeX website]]
 * '''SQL Server 2005''' - Microsoft's database system built on the Sybase database. If you want to use the Ex``Builder analysis software, this must be installed. [[http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx|SQL Server 2005 Express website]]
 * '''VMware Player''' - VMware Player allows you to run VMware virtual machines without buying the full VMware program. It can't make new virtual machines though. [[http://www.vmware.com/products/player/|VMware Player website]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2003''' [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx MS Office website]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html UR EndNote license site]
 * '''Photoshop''' [http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html Photoshop website]
 * '''Poser Pro''' [http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poserpro/index.html SmithMicro PoserPro website]
 * '''Matlab 7.5''' [http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ Matlab website]		  * '''Microsoft Office 2003''' [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx|MS Office website]]
 * '''End``Note X1''' [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html|UR EndNote license site]]
 * '''Photoshop''' [[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html|Photoshop website]]
 * '''Poser Pro''' [[http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poserpro/index.html|SmithMicro PoserPro website]]
 * '''Matlab 7.5''' [[http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/|Matlab website]]
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 * '''Microsoft Office 2007''' [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx MS Office website]
 * '''End``Note X3''' [http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html UR EndNote license site]		  * '''Microsoft Office 2007''' [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx|MS Office website]]
 * '''End``Note X3''' [[http://www.rochester.edu/it/sitelicenses/endnote.html|UR EndNote license site]]

Installed Software

We try to have uniformity in the software installed on the computers in the lab. This page contains a list of software installed on them other than the factory default software.

1. Common

This is software that is installed on all of the computers.

  • Active TCL - ActiveState provides a newer version of Tcl/Tk than Apple. It has the added advantage of being a Universal binary that works on PPC and x86, unlike the version that comes with MacOS X 10.4, which is a PPC version that has to run in emulation on an x86 like our iMacs. MacOS X 10.5 has a more current (and Universal) version of Tcl/Tk and consequently doesn't need ActiveTCL. On the PC ActiveTCL provides Tcl/Tk, as Microsoft ships no version. ActiveTCL website

  • Firefox - a popular web browser. Firefox website

  • Gimp - An opensource image editing program. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but free instead of over $600, and it does everything a non-poweruser needs. Gimp website Gimp.app website

  • Linger - A program written in Tcl/Tk for doing language experiments, particularly self-paced reading studies. Linger website

  • R - The R statistics package. The install includes the optional GNU Fortran in /usr/local/bin/ on the Macs for compiling some R packages that aren't available as binaries. R website

  • Praat - A phonetic analysis program. Praat website

  • Vim - Version 7.2 is installed on the PCs. On the Macs is MacVim, which is the Mac GUI version. The current version of MacVim uses Vim 7.2.49, whereas the terminal version on MacOS X 10.4 is 6.2 and on 10.5 is 7.2.22 Vim website MacVim website

  • Git - A distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds of Linux fame. On Macs in the lab it's installed in /usr/local/git/bin, and on Linux boxes in /usr/bin/. In the CS environment it's installed in /p/hlp/corpora/bin. Git website

  • Bazaar - A distributed version control system written and maintained by Canonical Software. It is conceptually similar to Git, but is designed to be easier to use, especially if you have experience with CVS or Subversion. Bazaar can be used in a distributed or centralized manner. Bazaar website

  • Mercurial - Another popular distributed version control system. Mercurial website

  • NITE XML Toolkit - Speech and video annotation tool. Nite XML Toolkit website

  • Transcriber - Speech and video annotation software written in Tcl at UPenn. Transcriber website

  • ANVIL - Video annotation tool. ANVIL website

  • Elan - Speech and video annotation tool written in Java from MPI. Elan website

  • OpenOffice.org - An opensource cross platform office suite from Sun descended from StarOffice. OpenOffice.org website

  • Blender - Opensource 3D animation program. Has a superset of Poser functionality, Python scripting that actually works, and it's free. Blender website

  • MPEG Streamclip - A free (not opensource) program for converting between video formats (including the audio stream), resizing video, and trimming video clips. platypus and echidna have the necessary Quicktime plugin for it to convert to and from MPEG2 (needed for e.g. DVD ripping). MPEG Streamclip website

2. iMacs

The iMacs in the lab have the same software as much as possible.

  • Apple Developer Tools - Located in /Developer are the Apple developer tools including XCode and Interface builder. This also puts GCC in /usr/bin/. Apple Developer Connection

  • Adium - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. Adium website

  • Aquamacs Emacs - A Mac friendly GUI for Emacs. Aquamacs website

  • Python - The default version of Python that comes with MacOS X 10.4 is rather old (2.3.5) and doesn't support readline command line editing and history. The official (non-Apple) Python provides a more up to date version with readline. MacOS X 10.5 comes with version 2.5.1, but the current version is 2.6, which is installed on all the Macs currently. Python website

  • MacTeX 2011 - The MacTeX users group provides a package that includes a recent version of the TeTeX port of LaTeX along with the TeXShop LaTeX editor and BibDesk BibTeX bibliography manager. MacTeX website

  • NeoOffice - A Mac native port of the OpenOffice.org office suite. NeoOffice website

  • Remote Desktop Connection - Microsoft provides a program to allow Mac users to connect remotely to a PC running Windows. Microsoft RDC Mac website

  • SBCL - Steel Bank Common Lisp. An opensource implementation of ANSI Common Lisp, forked from Carnegie Mellon University's CMUCL. SBCL website

  • MacFUSE - A kernel extension that allows user-space file systems. Useful for mounting NTFS on a Mac and for mounting a file system over ssh. MacFUSE website

  • MacFusion - A GUI front end for MacFUSE. Particularly useful for SSHfs. MacFusion website

  • Colordiff - A perl script that color highlights diffs. Very useful for software development. Several DVCS systems will use it if installed. Colordiff website

  • subversion - A popular version control system. The Developer Tools for Mac OS X 10.5 comes with subversion, but installers exist for 10.4. Subversion website

  • Cyberduck - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X. Cyberduck website

3. Platypus

Platypus is a 20" iMac running MacOS 10.6

4. Echidna

Echidna is a 24" iMac running MacOS 10.6

5. Schleppi

15" MacBook Pro

6. Carry

15" MacBook Pro

7. Llevarito

15" MacBook Pro

8. hlplaptop4

15" MacBook Pro

9. Common on PCs

This is software that all the PCs have.

  • 7-zip - An opensource file compression program that can handle zip, gzip, bzip2, rar, tar, and 7zip formats. 7-Zip website

  • ActivePython - ActiveState provides a current version of Python for Windows that includes the Pythonwin IDE that does syntax highlighting and omnicompletion. ActivePython website

  • ExBuilder- The experiment scripting language developed for the Tanenhaus and Aslin labs here at U of R. No website or online documentation available, except for the minimal information collected on the following wiki page: [wiki:TanenhausLab/ExBuilder ExBuilder]

  • Pidgin - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others. Pidgin website

  • PuTTY - Provides ssh, sftp, and scp programs for Windows. PuTTY website

  • SSH and SFTP - official SSH and SFTP clients site-licensed by University IT. IT SSH download page

  • WinSCP - Opensource SFTP, SCP, and FTP client. WinSCP download page

  • TortoiseSVN - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle SVN source repositories. TortoiseSVN website

  • TortoiseHg - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Mercurial source repositories. TortoiseHg website

  • TortoiseGit - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle Git source repositories. TortoiseGit website

  • Notepad++ - An editor that looks much like the built-in Windows Notepad, but has features such as syntax highlighting, line numbering, awareness of Windows vs Unix end-of-line characters, brace matching, and more. Notepad++ website

10. Tracker

Tracker is a Dell Dimension E521 running Windows Vista Business. It has some software specific to it that has been installed as needed.

11. Poser

Poser is a Dell Precision 390 running Windows Vista Ultimate. Most of the software specific to it is related to image editing.

12. Wallaby

Wallaby is a Dell Precision T1500 running Windows 7 Professional.

InstalledSoftware (last edited 2013-05-03 19:48:31 by echidna)

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