Anti-virus

Sophos

Sophos

Bibliographic software

Endnote

Endnote

Compression program

Win XP Builtin Zip support

Stuffit

Charting

MS Excel

MS Excel

Database

MS Access

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Desktop publishing/Page layout

MS Publisher

Adobe InDesign

Digital video editing

Windows Movie Maker

iMovie, Final Cut Pro

DVD authoring

-

DVD Studio Pro, iDVD

Email

Thunderbird, Webmail

Thunderbird, Webmail

File transfer

FileZilla, Web browser (IE)

Fetch, ftp, Web Browser

General text editing

Notepad

Simpletext, BBEdit

Image manipulation

-

Adobe Photoshop

Integrated package

MS Office 2007

Apple Works, MS Office

Keyboard skills

Typing Tutor

-

Languages

East Asian languages support, Maori, Russian

Arabic, Bulgarian, simplified & traditional Chinese, Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese Korean, Persian, Polish, Russian, Maori, Ukranian

Library's PAC browser

iPac

iPac

Mathematical computation

Matlab

Mathematica, Matlab

Multimedia

Quicktime, Windows Media Player

Quicktime, Windows Media Player

Music score writing

-

Sibelius

Music theory tuition

-

Practica Musica

Optical Character Recognition

MS Document Scanning

Scan Wizard

Painting/graphics

CorelDRAW, Corel Print Office, Corel Print House, MS Picture Manager

Macro Media Studio MX, Corel Print Office

Portable document format (pdf)

Adobe Acrobat Reader, PrimoPDF

Adobe Acrobat Reader, Distiller

Presentation

MS PowerPoint

MS PowerPoint

Programming Languages

MS Visual C++, Borland C++, Jade, JDK, MS Visul Studio

Applescript, Project Builder, C, Obj-C, C++, Obj-C++, Java, Applescript

Simulation software

Simul

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Spreadsheet

MS Excel

MS Excel

Statistical analysis

SPSS, Minitab, SAS, Statistica

-

Terminal emulation

MS Telnet

Terminal

Web browser

Internet Explorer, Firefox

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari

Web page creation

Dreamweaver, NVU

Dreamweaver, NVU

Word processing

MS Word

MS Word