Technology
Labs
Software
Computers in all classrooms, general access spaces (except Express Web Stations) and Technology Computer Labs, and most of the computers in Departmental Computer labs have at least the software listed below installed.
Version numbers are for the 2007-08 school year. Many versions will be incremented, and, based on faculty requests, software will be removed or added for 2008-09 when we "re-image" machines over the summer. For information about the support that Simmons provides for Simmons standard and academic/accepted software, please see Software Standards.
| Windows | Macintosh | Software |
|---|---|---|
| Windows XP, Service Pack 2 | Macintosh OS 10.4.10 | Operating System |
| MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Word 2003 | MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Word 2004 | Office suite: presentation, spreadsheet, word processing |
| IE 6.0, Firefox 2.0 | Safari 2.0.4, Firefox 2.0 | Web Browsing |
| Sophos | Sophos | Antivirus |
| Roxio Easy CD Creator | OS XBurn | CD Creation |
| Built into OS | Stuffit Std 11 | Compression |
| MS Office Access 2003 | Database | |
| Meeting Maker | Meeting Maker | Faculty/staff calendaring |
| CoreFTP Lite 1.3 / Winscp 3.8.2 | Fetch 5.2.1 / Fugu 1.2 | FTP / SCP |
| Photoshop CS3 | Photoshop CS3 | Image creation / manipulation |
| Java 1.5.07 | Java 1.5.07 | Java |
| Apple Quicktime 7.1.6, DVD Player 5.7, Flash Player 9, Windows MediaPlayer 11, RealPlayer Enterprise 6.1, Shockwave Player 10.2 | Apple Quicktime 7.16, DVD Player 4.6.5, Flash Player 9, Flip4Mac 2.1.2, Windows Media Player 9, Real Player v. 10.1, Shockwave Player 10.1.1 | Multimedia viewers |
| Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 | Page Layout | |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 | Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 | PDF Viewer |
| Adobe Acrobat 7.0.9 | Adobe Acrobat 7.0.9 | PDF creation |
| FeedReader 3.0 | Safari | RSS Reader |
| MiniTab 15, SPSS 15 (SPSS Base, Advanced Models, Categories, Regression Models, Tables, and Trends) | Statistical | |
| Notepad 4.95 | TextWrangler 2.2.1 | Text editor |
| Dreamweaver CS3 | Dreamweaver CS3 | Web page / site authoring |
If no one requests the software below for 2008-2009, it will not be installed.
| Software | Windows | Macintosh | Requestor |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAS | |||
| MonacoOptix | 2.0.3 | Art & Music | |
| F-Cape | 8.0 | Center for Academic Achievement | |
| S-Cape | 8.0 | Center for Academic Achievement | |
| ArcExplorer | 2.3 | x | Chemistry (Technology at the Crossroads) |
| ArcView | 9 | x | Chemistry (Technology at the Crossroads) |
| ChemDraw | 10 | 10 | Chemistry |
| Molecular Workbench | 1.3 | 1.3 | Chemistry |
| Revolution Player | 2.7.1 | 2.7.1 | Chemistry |
| jGrasp | 1.8.6 | 1.8.6 | CS & IT |
| Praat | 4.6.0.3 | 4.6.0.6 | CS & IT |
| C++ | 2005 | Express | CS & IT |
| PLT Scheme | 370 | 370 | CS & IT |
| Geometer's Sketchpad | 4.0.7 | 4.0.7 | Math |
| Maple | 11 | 11 | Math |
| Netscape | 7.0 | 7.2 | Math |
| Active Perl | 5.8.8 | 5.8.6 | Math |
| PhP | 5.2.2 | x | Math |
| XMLSpy | x | Math | |
| Evrsoft | 1st page 3.0 | Math | |
| Putty | 0.60.7604 | Math | |
| MySQL | 5.0 | 5.0 | Math |
| WinEdt | 5.5 | Math | |
| ProTex | 2 | LaTex | Math |
| Food Processor | 8.8 | Nutrition | |
| E-Prime | 1.2 | Psychology | |
| PsychMate | 2.0 | Psychology | |
| Notetab Lite | 4.95 | GSLIS | |
| SciFinder | 2006 | 2005 | Library |
| Write-n-Cite | 2.0 | 1.0 | Library |