Technology

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.

Simmons Standard Software on all Classroom and General Access Computers
Windows Macintosh Software
Windows Vista, Service Pack 1 Macintosh OS 10.5.4 Operating System
MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Word 2007 MS Office Excel, PowerPoint, Word 2008 Office suite: presentation, spreadsheet, word processing
IE 7, Firefox 2.0 Safari 3.1.2, Firefox 2.0 Web Browsing
Sophos Sophos Antivirus
Roxio Easy CD Creator OS XBurn CD Creation
Built into OS Stuffit Std 12 Compression
MS Office Access 2007 Database
Meeting Maker Meeting Maker Faculty/staff calendaring
CoreFTP Lite 2.1 / Winscp 4.0.7 Fetch 5.3 / Fugu 1.2 FTP / SCP
Photoshop CS3 Photoshop CS3 Image creation / manipulation
Java 1.6.05 Java 1.5.0.13 Java
Apple Quicktime 7.5, DVD Player 5.7, Flash Player 9, RealPlayer Enterprise 6.1, Shockwave Player 11, Windows Media Player 11 Apple Quicktime 7.5, DVD Player 5, Flash Player 9, Flip4Mac 2.2, RealPlayer 10, Shockwave Player 11 Multimedia viewers
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 Page Layout
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 PDF Viewer
Cute PDF Built into OS PDF creation
FeedReader 3.1 Safari RSS Reader
MiniTab 15, SPSS 16 (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
By request from faculty, the software below was added to 2007-2008 classroom and lab computers. In addition, many specific labs have additional software installed. Only Technology staff can install software on general access computers and in Technology Computer Lab.  If you want any software, including what is listed below, installed for 2008-2009 please fill out a Software Installation Request form
If no one requests the software below for 2009-2010, it will not be installed.
Software on All Classroom and General Access Computers: Installed by Request
Software Windows Macintosh Requestor
      CAS
jGrasp 1.8.6 CS & IT
Praat 5.0.25 CS & IT
C++ 9.0 Express CS & IT
PLT Scheme 372 CS & IT
Maple 12 12 Math
Active Perl 5.8.8 5.8.6 Math
PhP 5.2.2 Math
XMLSpy x   Math
Evrsoft 2006   Math
Putty 0.60.7604   Math
MySQL 5.0 Math
WinEdt 5.5   Math
ProTex 2 Math
Food Processor SQL   Nutrition
E-Prime 1.2   Psychology
PsychMate 2.0   Psychology
Notetab Lite 4.95   GSLIS
SciFinder 2007 2007a Library
Write-n-Cite 2.5 2.5 Library