Application |
Short Description |
Online Training |
Platforms |
| Access | Microsoft Office database application. Allows the simple creation of a database system with corresponding queries and forms. (Part of Microsoft Office) | | Windows |
| Acrobat Distiller | Turns postscript files into PDF format (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Acrobat Professional | Create and modify PDF files (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Acrobat Writer | Basic PDF writing and creation tool. | | Windows |
| Adobe After Effects Professional | Is a digital motion graphics and compositing software mainly used for film and video post productions (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Adobe Creative Suite | Application suite for Image creation/manipulation and web design | | Mac |
| Adobe DNG Converter | Converts raw image files into the DNG (Digital negative) file format (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Adobe Flash Video Encoder | Convert video files into flash format (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Adobe Premiere | Real-time timeline based video editing application supporting very high quality video in multiple formats | | Mac |
| Adobe Reader (incl. Central European and Asian Fonts) | Basic PDF viewer | | Mac Windows |
| ANUCLIM | Obtains estimates of monthly mean climate variables, bioclimatic parameters and indices relating to crop growth. | | Windows |
| Apple Loops Utility | Allows you to create loops of audio and time-stretch them. Also allows tagging of audio files with publishing & musical information. Intergrates with Soundtrack Pro & GarageBand | | Mac |
| ARC | Menu driven statistical analysis tool for regression problems. | | Windows |
| ArcGIS | Geographic information system that allows the viewing, creation, editing and viewing of maps | | Windows |
| ArcView GIS | Tool for viewing and editing maps. Contains Arc Map used for composition and geographic analysis & ArcCatalog used for geographic data management | | Windows |
| Atom in a Box | Allows Real-Time Visualization of the Quantum Mechanical Atomic Orbitals | | Mac |
| Audacity | Light-weight application for recording and editing sounds | | Mac Windows |
| Auralia | Music software for ear training and aural tests | | Windows |
| Authorware Player | Allows the playback of files created in Authorware | | Windows |
| Bertie | A proof checker for natural deduction in sentinel and predicate logic | | Windows |
| BioNetS | Biochemical Network Stochastic Simulator. An easy to use and fast stochastic ODE solver using Gillespie, chemical Langevin and any hybrid of the two. | | Mac |
| Bridge | Organisational program designed to link the Adobe Creative suite components together. Bridge can make viewing and managing files easier multimedia files easier. (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| BSVC | BSVC is a Motorola 68000 microprocessor simulation framework written in C++ and Tcl/Tk | | Windows Unix/Linux |
| CAJ Viewer | Allows the viewing of academic journals from the China Academic Journal database | | Windows |
| Calculator | Mac OSX built-in calculator | | Mac |
| Calculator | Windows built-in calculator | | Windows |
| Cambridge Klett English-Spanish Dictionary | An English to Spanish Dictionary | | Windows |
| Camera Raw Plug-In | Gives Photoshop support for raw image files (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Carrara Studio Pro | A general purpose 3D modeling, animation and rendering package which includes compatibility with Poser and DAZ format 3D figures (Part of Amapi Designer 7) | | Mac |
| CDATA | Provides census data information | | Windows |
| Chaos | Powerful mathematics engine | | Mac |
| Chime plug-in | Chime lets scientists view chemical structures from within popular Web browsers, Java Applets and Java applications. | | Windows |
| Cinema Tools | Combines film databse tools with video conversion tools and is mainly used to keep track of film as well as to reverse telecine or perfom advanced pulldown from 30 fps to 24 fps. (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| Clouds | Gives information on different cloud types - identification and viewing tips | | Windows |
| Cn3D | Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBIs Entrez retrieval service. | | Mac |
| Color | Professional colour grading application. Older versions were named FinalTouch (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| Compressor | Video encoding program (Change the format of a video or make the file smaller). Can be used with Qmaster for clustering (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| Consolidation Accounting | | | Windows |
| Cosmo Player | Web browser plug-in that allows you to view 3D worlds authored in virtual reality modeling language | | Windows |
| CourseGenie | Converts Word documents into fully functional web sites | | Windows |
| Csound | Csound is a sound design, music synthesis and signal processing system providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. | | Mac |
| Cubase SX | Offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music productions for distribution on CDs or the internet. | | Mac |
| Cygwin-X | An addition to cygwin (the Linux type environment) which provides an X window system effectively bringing X window capabilities into windows. | | Windows |
| Definition Scope Checker | | | Windows |
| Diccionarios | Spanish online dictionary | | Mac Windows |
| Dictionary | Dictionary built into OSX | | Mac |
| Digital Works | A graphical digital circuit design tool that enables the construction of digital logic circuits and to analyse their behaviour. | | Windows |
| Director MX | Allows the creation of compelling interactive games, demos, prototypes, simulations and eLearning courses for the web in the Shockwave format. | | Mac |
| DjVu Browser Plug-in | Enables the viewing of DjVu files in web browsers | | Mac Windows |
| Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional | Speech top text application. Allows you to enter text by dictating to the computer. | | Windows |
| Dreamweaver | Web development application utilizing a what you see is what you get environment which can hide the detail of HTML code, making it possible for non-coders to create web sites. (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac Windows |
| DS ViewerPro Suite | ViewerPro combines state of the art molecular graphics with a full range of Windows desktop integration tools | | Windows |
| ds9 | Astronomical imaging and data visualization application | | Mac Windows |
| DVD Player | Mac OSX default DVD playing application (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| DVD Studio Professional | A powerful DVD Authoring suite that intergrates with other apple applications such as Final Cut studio allowing you to render videos directly to DVD (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| DX for Windows | Allows easy access to official and user created time series databases. | | Windows |
| Eagle | Easy to use but powerful CAD tool for designing printed circuit boards. Features include schematic capture, board layout and autorouter | | Windows |
| EMU Speech Database System | A collection of software tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases | | Windows |
| EndNote | EndNote is a reference management application used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles | | Mac Windows |
| Eviews Standard | Used for genaral ststistical analysis and enconometric analyses such as cross-section, panel data analysis, time series estimation and forcasting. Has support for Excel, PSPP/SPSS, DAP/SAS, Stata and other databases. | | Windows |
| Excel | Microsoft Office spreadsheet application featuring calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and the ability to write macros (Part of Microsoft Office) | | Mac Windows |
| Extend | Develop dynamic models of real-life processes in a wide variety of fields then run simulations of them to analyse perfomance. | | Windows |
| Farm Forestry Toolbox | Collection of programs for assisting managers of plantations or native forests | | Windows |
| ffmpegX | Stream and record various video and audio formats with this free command line based utility | | Mac |
| FileZilla | FTP graphical user interface that is very easy to use (can be used to connect to pebble while off campus) | | Windows |
| Final Cut Professional | High-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format and facility-class extensibility and interoperability (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| Final Cut Studio | A professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X. | | Mac |
| Finale | Highly flexible application for writing music scores. Finale can notate anything from textbook chorale to a cut-out score including new symbols invented by the composer. | | Mac |
| Fink | A project to port Unix programs to Mac OSX | | Mac |
| FinkCommander | A Graphical user interface for Fink | | Mac |
| Firefox | Alternative to Internet Explorer. Has tabs and other useful features that IE is lacking. | | Mac Windows |
| Firefox Developer Tools | Allows the creation of Firefox plugins | | Mac |
| Fireworks | Bitmap and vector graphics editor primarily for the creation of web graphics. Native format is png | | Windows |
| FirstRate | House energy rating software. With a highest score of 6 stars. | | Windows |
| Fits Liberator | Adobe Photoshop plug-in that processes astronomical data to create images of the universe | | Mac |
| Flash Basic | Create simple motion graphics in the Flash file format. Often used on web pages. | | Windows |
| Flash Player | Enables the playing and viewing of Flash files | | Windows |
| Flash Professional | Supports improved vector drawing and actionscript 3.0 allowing for the creation of high quality Flash videos (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| FlexPDE | General purpose program for obtaining numerical solutions to partial differential equations | | Windows |
| formZ | 3D modeling and rendering application that facilitates the development and execution of projects from conception to complete detailed structures | | Mac |
| Fortoon | An educational forest management game. | | Windows |
| Fortran | Fortran Compiler | | Unix/Linux |
| FrameThief | Has the basic functionality of a frame grabber but also provides tools specific to animation. Is used mainly for the creation of high quality animations | | Mac |
| FreeHand MX | Similar to Adobe Illustrator - used for creating 2D vector graphics. Generally easier to use than Illustrator but also more limited | | Windows |
| FreeMind | A free open source mind mapping application featuring branch folding, icons on nodes, clouds around branches, searches as well as web and file hyperlinks from nodes | | Mac |
| FrontPage | A What You See Is What You Get HTML editor and web design application. It is part of the Microsoft office suite. | | Windows |
| Galerie | Exports photos from iPhoto to a webpage | | Mac |
| GAMS | | | Windows |
| GarageBand | Allows the creation of music or podcasts from recoded audio - virtual software instuments and MIDI files (Part of iLife 08) | | Mac |
| GCc | GNG C compiler. Allows the compilation of C & C++ programs | | Unix/Linux |
| Genesis | Simulation environment for constructing models of neurobiological systems | | Unix/Linux |
| GenStat | A comprehensive statistics system that offers a large range of statistacal techniques including microarray, regression, survival, multivariate and spatial. | | Windows |
| Ghostview | Application for viewing PDF files (Adobe Acrobat is normally a better choice if available) | | Windows |
| Gimp | GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Common uses include retouching, resizing and combining images. GIMP is often used as a free replacement for Adobe Photoshop | | Mac |
| Google Earth | Maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches | | Windows |
| GR Tensor ll (add-in to Maple) | GRTensor II is a computer algebra package for performing calculations in the general area of differential geometry (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| Grab | Screen capturing program for Mac OSX | | Mac |
| Gut | Explore how digestive anatomy, body size and characteristics of food interact to influence nutrient supply in herbivorous mammals | | Windows |
| Hoi Chuyen Gia Viet Nam VPSKeys (Vietnamese Fonts and Keyboard) | Enables Vietnamese to be input to the computer | | Windows |
| Hot Potatoes | Includes six applications - enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice exercises for WebPages | | Mac |
| HyperEdit | HTML editor for Mac OSX | | Mac |
| ICMS - Interactive Catchment Management System | PC-based software product developed to facilitate the rapid development and delivery of catchment science to catchment managers | | Windows |
| iDVD | Mac OSX DVD creation software (Part of iLife 08) | | Mac |
| IFS - Interactive Forest Simulator | | | Windows |
| iLife | Multimedia software suite used to create, organise, publish & view digital content | | Mac |
| Illustrator | Vector based drawing application that allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible colour controls and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely. (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Image Capture | Captures images (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| iMovie | Video editing software for Mac OSX (Part of iLife 08) | | Mac |
| InDesign | A desktop publishing application providing a what you see is what you get interface along with the ability to handle complex page layouts. Often used in the creation of magazine, newspaper and catalogs (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Innopac | Part of the library management system. Allows public access to library catalogues as well as cataloguing, circulation and serials | | Windows |
| Inquisit | Inquisit is the tool of choice for behavioral scientists throughout the world for creating rich surveys, reaction time tasks, signal detection measures, attitude tests, and experiments in cognition, perception, and memory. | | Windows |
| Inspiration | Inspiration is the essential tool students rely on to plan - research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views they create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. | | Mac Windows |
| Internet Explorer | Default windows internet browser | | Windows |
| iPhoto | Import, organize, edit, print and share digital photos. (Part of iLife 08) | | Mac |
| iPod Updater | Updates iPod software | | Mac |
| iSight | Software for using the webcam integrated into the apple computer | | Mac |
| iSync | Used to synchronize data in iCal and the Address Book with .Mac and with devices including iPods (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| iTunes | Media player application. Mainly suited to music | | Mac Windows |
| iWeb | What you see is what you get template-based website creation tool (Part of iLife 08) | | Mac |
| iWork | Application suite containing Pages - a word processing and desktop publishing application - Keynote - a presentation package and Numbers - a spreadsheet application | | Mac |
| J2SE | Widely used platform for programming in java (Part of Java 5.0 R5) | | Mac |
| Java Neural Network Simulator (JNNS) | Neural Network simulator allows you to design and train neural networks from scratch - or load pre-designed networks and experiment with training them | | Windows |
| Jaws | Reads text on the screen aloud so you can listen to the text. | | Windows |
| JMP | Statistical software: dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand and visualize data | | Mac Windows |
| Jython Environment for Students (JES) | A java implementation of Python thus allowing it to run on any platform | | Mac Windows |
| Keynote | Presentation software, similar to PowerPoint, on Mac (Makes very clean & professional looking presentations) | | Mac |
| Kontakt Player for Sibelius | Kontakt Player is a universal sample player that can load all Kontakt Player compatible libraries from within one software interface | | Mac |
| Kurzweil 3000 Professional | Reading, Writing and Learning Software for Struggling Students | | Windows |
| LaTeX | A document markup language and document preperation system for the TeX typesetting program. Widley used by Mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, academics and in the commercial world. | | Mac Windows Unix/Linux |
| Let Me Know Persian | Employs a multimedia system to teach the essentials of Persian language more effectively | | Windows |
| LiveType | Full-featured animated titling application (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| Lizzo | Explore the factors that influence body temperature of terrestrial reptiles | | Windows |
| Lucid Professional | Lucid tools are powerful and highly flexible knowledge management software applications designed to help users with identification or diagnostic tasks. | | Windows |
| Lynx | Text only web browser | | Unix/Linux |
| LyX | A what you see is what you mean text editor | | Mac |
| M68k-GCC | Allows the compilation of programs to run on Motorola 68000 series processors | | Windows Unix/Linux |
| Mac OSX | Apple Macintosh operating system | | Mac |
| MacClade | A computer program for phylogenetic analysis - its analytical strength is in studies of character evolution | | Mac |
| Maple | Powerful mathematics and modeling software | | Mac |
| Markstrat | Markstrat is an online learning software for strategic marketing | | Windows |
| Mathematica | | | Windows |
| MATLAB | Mathematical computation program - good at dealing with matrices | | Mac Windows Unix/Linux |
| Maya | High end 3D modeling and computer graphics | | Mac |
| Microfit | Application for econometric analysis of time series data. Microfit is an interactive, menu-driven program with a host of facilities for estimating and testing equations, forecasting, data processing, file management, and graphic display | | Windows |
| Microsoft Office | Microsoft office suite, including word, excel and PowerPoint etc. | | Mac Windows |
| MiKTeX | Typesetting system allowing the creation of computer printed mathamatics & calculations. | | Windows |
| Millennium | Web- and Java-based automated library system | | Windows |
| Minitab | Statistical software | | Windows |
| Moment Mal! | Program useful for learning German. | | Windows |
| Motion | 3D animation tool (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| MRIcro Citrix Connection | Allows the viewing of medical images including efficient viewing and exporting of brain images. In addition, it allows neuropsychologists to identify regions of interest (ROIs, e.g. lesions) | | Mac |
| MultiSpec | System for interactively analyzing Earth observational multispectral image data | | Windows |
| Musition | Music theory and fundamentals package | | Windows |
| MYOB Accounting Plus | Accounting software - provides accounting - retail and payroll software | | Windows |
| MySQL | Database program | | Unix/Linux |
| MySQL GUI | Graphical user interface for MySQL databases | | Windows |
| NACSIS-ELS plug-in | Provides and integrated system of bibliographic databases and electronic document delivery of Japanese academic journals | | Windows |
| Neuron | Simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons. | | Windows |
| Neurons in Acton | Interactive tutorials for Neuron | | Windows |
| Nisus Thesaurus | Thesaurus that integrates with Mac OSX | | Mac |
| Nisus Writer Express | Word Processor for Mac OSX | | Mac |
| Nvivo | NVivo is designed to help you manage and analyse data that is not easily reduced to numbers. In NVivo, you can create a project to store documents, organise documents, attach ideas to text (known as Nodes in NVivo), and find patterns among your ideas. | | Windows |
| Open Office | Open Source equivalent of Microsoft Office | | Mac Windows |
| Opera | Alternative to Internet Explorer. Has tabs and other useful features that IE is lacking. | | Mac |
| PAGEotX | Generates EMBED and OBJECT code for the QuickTime plug-in | | Mac |
| Pages | Page layout application for Mac | | Mac |
| Painter | Digital art application that simulates as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing - painting and printmaking | | Mac |
| PAUP | Tool for inferring and interpreting phylogenetic trees | | Mac |
| PC1D | Used for modeling crystalline solar cells | | Windows |
| PD | Graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia | | Mac |
| Perl | A dynamic programming language | | Mac Unix/Linux |
| PhotoBooth | Small application for taking photos with an iSight (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| PhotoScore Professional | Scan music scores into the computer and have it read the music. Notes - slurs - dynamics - lyrics - guitar tab - cord diagrams and more. | | Mac |
| Photoshop | Popular and very powerful digital image editing program produced by Adobe (Part of Adobe Creative Suite 3) | | Mac |
| Photosynthesis in Silico | Teaching tool for explaining concepts of photosynthesis | | Mac |
| Plate Tectonics | Multimedia teaching program for plate tectonics | | Mac |
| Poser | 3D rendering and animation | | Mac |
| PowerPoint | Popular presentation software | | Mac Windows |
| Praat | Program for the analysis of speech in phonetics | | Windows |
| Pro Tools | Program used for recording and editing in music production (Part of Mbox) | | Mac |
| Project Standard | Robust project management software | | Windows |
| PSpice A/D (Student) | Design and simulate analog and digital electronic circuits. | | Windows |
| PsyScope | Program for designing and controlling psychological experiments | | Mac |
| Publisher | Entry level desktop publishing application. Quite similar to Word but with the emphasis shifted towards page layout and design instead of content. (Part of Microsoft Office) | | Windows |
| Putty (SSH Client) | A terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH- Telnet- rlogin- and raw TCP computing protocols | | Windows |
| Python | Dynamic object-oriented programming language | | Mac Windows Unix/Linux |
| Qmaster | Provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects (Distributes workload over several machines) | | Mac |
| QuickSilver | Allows users to quickly launch applications, manipulate files and data, run scripts or send e-mails with a keyboard shortcuts | | Mac |
| QuickTime Broadcaster | Allows the creation of live broadcasts. Can be used for creating video pod casts etc. | | Mac |
| QuickTime Player | Media player used to play most video files. | | Mac Windows |
| QuickTime Professional | Media player used to play most video files. That also allows the editing and re-encoding of video files. | | Mac |
| R | Statistical environment based on a strongly functional programming language. | | Mac Windows |
| Ramas Ecolab | Teaching tool for basic principles of population ecology | | Windows |
| Read and Write Gold | Gives speech feedback - spell checking and word prediction in practically any windows program | | Windows |
| Real Player | Media player that can play .rm files | | Mac Windows |
| Reason | Audio studio package with synths, samplers, drum machines, loop players, sequencer, mixing and effects (Part of Mbox) | | Mac |
| Respondus | Powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard - WebCT - eCollege - ANGEL and other eLearning systems | | Windows |
| Revisor | Spanish composition tools consisting of a 5 million word spell checker - a 500000 word thesaurus - a verb conjugator - and a hyphenator. Also includes a phonetically driven “guesser” that quickly suggest the right term when it finds a misspelling. | | Windows |
| Rotater | Application for rotating user specified points and lines in 3D real time with stereo options | | Mac |
| Rtcmix | An Open-Source - Digital Signal Processing and Sound Synthesis Language | | Mac |
| RuleBurst Studio | | | Windows |
| RunGEM Economics | | | Windows |
| S-Plus | The data analysis tool preferred by industry leaders worldwide in the finance - life science and manufacturing industries. | | Windows |
| Safari | Default Mac OSX web browser | | Mac |
| Scilab | Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications | | Mac Windows |
| Scorch Browser Plug-in | Lets you view, play, customize and print Sibelius scores on the Internet. (Part of Sibelius) | | Mac |
| Screen Capture (IfranView) | Screen capture and image manipulation program. | | Windows |
| Se-Al | Se-Al is an application for creating multiple sequence alignments from nucleotide and amino acid sequences. | | Mac |
| Shake | Said to create the world's most celebrated visual effects, Shake provides the only compositing software with a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities. | | Mac |
| SHAZAM Professional | Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to make econometrics easier to perform. | | Windows |
| Sherlock | Built-in file and web searching tool. (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| Shockwave Player | Allows the playing of shockwave files by themselves or in the internet browser | | Windows |
| Sibelius | Music score writing program that includes features allowing scores to be played back or burned to an audio CD aswell as being able scan and create a Sibelius score from printed music. | | Mac |
| SimplyBurns | Very simple - easy to use CD/DVD burning software | | Mac |
| SnagIt | Screen capture program. Can be used whenever you want to save what you see on the screen. | | Windows |
| Solar Programs | | | Windows |
| SolidWorks | 3D mechanical CAD application | | Windows |
| Soloist | Music program with a database for solos | | Windows |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | Antivirus software | | Mac Windows |
| SoundHack | Shareware sound processing program, which does various conversions including sample rate changes, file headers and plays header less files. | | Mac |
| Soundtrack Professional | Fly through audio editing and mixing with a streamlined interface that combines the multitrack Timeline and Waveform Editor in a single view. Easily create immersive soundtracks with innovative surround sound tools. (Part of Final Cut Studio 2) | | Mac |
| SPSS | A statistical and data management package for analysts and researchers | | Mac Windows |
| Standpak | A computer model for innovative forest managers | | Windows |
| Stat/Transfer | Transfer statistical data from one application to another | | Windows |
| Stata | Integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis - data management - and graphics. | | Windows |
| Statistica | Statistics and analytics software package. It provides a selection of data analysis - data management - data mining - and data visualization procedures | | Windows |
| Stella | Dynamically visualize and communicate how complex systems work | | Windows |
| Strand Finite Element Analysis | Construct models - run analyses and investigate results simultaneously using a seamless interface. | | Windows |
| Stuffit Expander | Compression software, similar to WinZip | | Mac |
| SubVersion | An open-source revision control system | | Mac |
| SuperCollider | SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. | | Mac |
| Swiss-PdbViewer | A user friendly interface used for analysing several proteins at the same time. | | Mac |
| SymmetryWorks | Pattern design plug-in for illustrator - allows you to repeat patterns | | Mac |
| Terminal | A terminal emulator that allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface. (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| teTeX | Typesetting system - useful for typesetting complex maths or physics equations | | Unix/Linux |
| TeX Support | Allows the use of laTeX and TeX files | | Mac |
| TeXShop | Graphical interface for TeX | | Mac |
| TextAloud | Text to speech software | | Windows |
| TextEditCommander | A simple and easy to use powerful text editor | | Mac |
| TextWrangler | A powerful general purpose text editor | | Mac |
| Thunderbird | Open source email and news client | | Mac Windows |
| TibKey | Allows the entry of Tibetan text into windows applications | | Windows |
| Toad Data Modeler | Database design tool allowing users to visually create - maintain and document new or existing database systems. | | Windows |
| Toast Titanium | CD/DVD authoring software | | Mac |
| Type IT | Learn to type with this application | | |
| Typequick | Learn how to touch type | | Windows Unix/Linux |
| Ucinet | A comprehensive package for the analysis of social network data as well as other 1-mode and 2-mode data | | Windows |
| Vensim PLE | Vensim PLE is fully functional system dynamics software | | Windows |
| VirtualDub | Light weight - high speed video capture and processing. Does not have the flexibility of large video editing suites but can do basic operation quickly and easily | | Windows |
| Visio Professional | Make professional looking diagrams/flowcharts/layouts that integrate easily into other Microsoft office application. | | Windows |
| Visual C++ | The C++ component of MS Visual studio. Used for creating C++ application using the .NET framework | | Windows |
| Visual Format Client Toolbar | | | Windows |
| VLC | Free media player - Plays anything | | Mac Windows |
| VoiceOver Utility | Built-in screen reader that provides keyboard control of the computer, enhanced screen magnification options and spoken English descriptions of what is on the screen. (Part of MacOS X) | | Mac |
| vPython | Allows the programming of 3D models and visuals | | Windows |
| Wacom Tablet | Allows the use of the graphics/handwriting tablet. | | Mac Windows |
| WaveSurfer | Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation | | Windows |
| Webster's Spanish/English Dictionary | Spanish English dictionary | | Windows |
| Weka | Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for solving real-world data mining problems. | | Mac Windows |
| Wenlin | Software for learning Chinese | | Mac Windows |
| WinaXe | WinaXe Windows X Server transparently connects different operating systems and their applications together. | | Windows |
| Windows Media Player | Windows build in media player. In conjunction with ffmpeg should play most things | | Windows |
| WinDVD | Video and music player software for Microsoft Windows. Able to play back DVDs as well as many other video formats such as DivX, XviD and Windows Media Video. | | Windows |
| WinEDT | A powerful and versatile ASCII editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents | | Windows |
| Word | Microsoft Office word processing application - Lots of tools and easy to use. (Part of Microsoft Office) | | Mac Windows |
| X11 | X11 for Mac OS X is an implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X | | Mac |
| Xcode - with all developer tools | Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. Make programs that run on Mac OSX | | Mac |
| Xilinx | FPGA, Processor and digital circuit design tool | | Windows |
| ZoomText | Zooms in on the screen effectively making everything larger. Also can read out text on the screen. Part of the DCS programs | | Windows |