Information Commons Applications
This site is intended to give an overview of Applications that can be found on Information Commons computers within the university. Details of the Applications can be seen in their descriptions with training and help links being provided if you wish to learn more.
Application Search
| 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) | MS Access Training Access Tutorials (Pulse link) |  |
| Acrobat Distiller | Turns postscript files into PDF format (Part of Adobe CS5.5) (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Distiller HowTos |  |
| Acrobat Professional | Create and modify PDF files (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Adobe Acrobat Website | |
| Acrobat Standard | Converts documents into PDF format | Adobe Help and Support | |
| Acrobat Writer | Basic PDF writing and creation tool. | Acrobat Tips | |
| Adobe After Effects Pro | Video and film (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | After Effects Website | |
| Adobe Content Viewer | Preview and test .folio files (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | | |
| Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium | Application suite for Image creation/manipulation and web design (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Adobe Design Centre | |
| Adobe Flash Video Encoder | Convert video files into flash format | Flash Video Encoder Guide | |
| Adobe Reader (incl. Central European and Asian Fonts) | Basic PDF viewer | Adobe Reader Userguide | |
| Adobe Shockwave Player | Allows the playing of shockwave files by themselves or in the internet browser | Shockwaveplayer Website | |
| Adobe Software Training | Help and support on using Adobe software | Link to support and help centre | |
| ANSYS | Engineering simulation software | ANSYS support | |
| ANU Pulse online training | to register for online training for both students and staff | LINK to register for training | |
| ANUCLIM | Obtains estimates of monthly mean climate variables, bioclimatic parameters and indices relating to crop growth. | ANUCLIM 5.1 users guide | |
| Apabi Reader | eBook reader for Chinese publications for Apabi digital library subcription | | |
| 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 (Part of Final Cut Studio 7) | Garageband/Loops Support | |
| Apple Support Manuals | Link to support manuals via Apple website | Apple manuals | |
| ARC | Menu driven statistical analysis tool for regression problems. | Arc Tutorials ARC Tutorial 2 | |
| ArcGIS | Geographic information system that allows the viewing, creation, editing and viewing of maps | ArcGIS Tutorial | |
| ArcView GIS | Tool for viewing and editing maps. Contains Arc Map used for composition and geographic analysis & ArcCatalog used for geographic data management | ArcView Tutorial | |
| Audacity | Light-weight application for recording and editing sounds | Audacity Documentation Audacity Tutorial | |
| Auralia | Music software for ear training and aural tests | Product details | |
| Authorware Player | Allows the playback of files created in Authorware | Authorware Tutorial | |
| BioNetS | Biochemical Network Stochastic Simulator. An easy to use and fast stochastic ODE solver using Gillespie, chemical Langevin and any hybrid of the two. | REQUIREMENTS AND ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES | |
| Bonzai | Quick easy 3D modeler | User manual download | |
| 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 CS5.5) | Adobe Bridge Support | |
| BSVC | BSVC is a Motorola 68000 microprocessor simulation framework written in C++ and Tcl/Tk | BSVC Manual |  |
| CAJ Viewer | Allows the viewing of academic journals from the China Academic Journal database | | |
| Cambridge Klett English-Spanish Dictionary | An English to Spanish Dictionary | | |
| Camera Raw Plug-In | Gives Photoshop support for raw image files (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Camera RAW Tutorial | |
| CDATA | Provides census data information | CDATA online | |
| Chaos | Powerful mathematics engine | | |
| Chime plug-in | Chime lets scientists view chemical structures from within popular Web browsers, Java Applets and Java applications. | Chime Tutorial | |
| 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 7) | Final Cut Studio Tutorials Apple Final Cut Studio Turorials | |
| Cn3D | Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBIs Entrez retrieval service. | Cn3D Tutorials | |
| Color | Professional colour grading application. Older versions were named FinalTouch (Part of Final Cut Studio 7) | Apple Final Cut Studio Turorials | |
| Comic Life | Comic Life lets you create comics, picture albums and more | Comic Life 2 features | |
| 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 7) | Apple Final Cut Studio Turorials | |
| Contribute | web publishing and website management tool (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Adobe cotribute search | |
| Cubase SX | Offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music productions for distribution on CDs or the internet. | Cubase SX 2 manuals Cubase Tutorial | |
| Cygwin-X | An addition to cygwin (the Linux type environment) which provides an X window system effectively bringing X window capabilities into windows. | Cygwin HowTos | |
| DeepBurn | DeepBurner fastest way to burn any kind of CD/DVD | English, German, Spanish, Polish user guides | |
| Device Central | simplifies the production of content for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Device Central features | |
| Diccionarious | Spanish online dictionary | | |
| Dictionary | Dictionary built into OSX | | |
| Digital Works | A graphical digital circuit design tool that enables the construction of digital logic circuits and to analyse their behaviour. | Getting Started with Digital Works | |
| DjVu Browser Plug-in | Enables the viewing of DjVu files in web browsers | DjVu Info | |
| DLD (Digital Lecturer Delivery) | Allows lecturers and tutors to record their session | DLD lecture recordings | |
| Dragon Dictate | Speech recognition for Mac | | |
| Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional | Speech top text application. Allows you to enter text by dictating to the computer. | DNS Tutorials | |
| 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 CS5.5) | Adobe TV Dreamweaver CS5 training | |
| DS ViewerPro Suite | ViewerPro combines state of the art molecular graphics with a full range of Windows desktop integration tools | | |
| ds9 | Astronomical imaging and data visualization application | User manual | |
| DVD Player | Mac OSX default DVD playing application (Part of MacOS X (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | | |
| 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 7) | Final Cut Studio Tutorials | |
| Eagle | Easy to use but powerful CAD tool for designing printed circuit boards. Features include schematic capture, board layout and autorouter | Eagle Tutorial | |
| Elan | ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. | Elan online manual | |
| EMU Speech Database System & Emu/R library | A collection of software tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases | EMU Manual Emu & R documentation | |
| EndNote | EndNote is a reference management application used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. | End Note Introduction ILP Endnote Information Training Manual (Alliance Link) | |
| Eviews Standard | Statistics | Eveiws 6 User's guide II | |
| Excel | Microsoft Office spreadsheet application featuring calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and the ability to write macros (Part of Microsoft Office) | MS Excel Training Excel Tutorials (Pulse link) | |
| ExtendSim | Develop dynamic models of real-life processes in a wide variety of fields then run simulations of them to analyse perfomance. | Extend Simulation Tutorial | |
| Farm Forestry Toolbox | Collection of programs for assisting managers of plantations or native forests | | |
| ffmpegX | Stream and record various video and audio formats with this free command line based utility | ffmpeg HowTo ffmpeg and DVD's | |
| FieldWorks Language Explorer | FieldWorks Language Explorer is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks (Part of SIL FieldWorks) | FieldWorks overview | |
| FigTree | graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees | | |
| FileZilla | FTP graphical user interface that is very easy to use (can be used to connect to pebble while off campus) | Filezilla Quickguide Guide to FTP With FileZilla | |
| 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 7) | Final Cut Studio Tutorials | |
| Final Cut Studio | A professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X. | Final Cut Studio Tutorials | |
| 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. Video tutorials are available from the Help menu under Quickstart videos | Knowledge Base Finale Forum | |
| Firefox | Alternative to Internet Explorer. Has tabs and other useful features that IE is lacking. | Firefox Guide | |
| Fireworks | Bitmap and vector graphics editor primarily for the creation of web graphics. Native format is png (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Fireworks Tutorials | |
| FirstRate | House energy rating software. With a highest score of 6 stars. | House Energy rating | |
| Flash Player | Enables the playing and viewing of Flash files | Wikipedia information | |
| Flash Professional | Supports improved vector drawing and actionscript 3.0 allowing for the creation of high quality Flash videos (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Adobe TV Flash Tutorials | |
| Fortran | Fortran Compiler | Tutorials and Examples | |
| FrontPage | is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems | FrontPage Tutorials (Pulse Link) | |
| GAMS | General Algebraic Modeling System | Courses and Workshops | |
| GarageBand | Allows the creation of music or podcasts from recoded audio - virtual software instuments and MIDI files (Part of iLife 11) | Garageband Tutorials | |
| GCc | GNG C compiler. Allows the compilation of C & C++ programs | | |
| Genesis | Simulation environment for constructing models of neurobiological systems | Genesis Tutorials | |
| GenStat | Statistics | GenStat Documentation | |
| Ghostview | Application for viewing PDF files (Adobe Acrobat is normally a better choice if available) | | |
| Gimp | GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program | Gimp Tutorials | |
| GNUPlot | Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Mac | GNUplot Demos | |
| Google Earth | Maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches | Google Earth Support | |
| Google Sketchup Pro | 3D modeling software | Self paced tutorials Video tutorials | |
| 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 (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | | |
| Handbrake | Converts video from nearly any format to a handful of modern ones | HandBrake Guide | |
| Hoi Chuyen Gia Viet Nam VPSKeys (Vietnamese Fonts and Keyboard) | Enables Vietnamese to be input to the computer | | |
| Hot Potatoes | Includes six applications - enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice exercises for WebPages | Hot Potatoes Tutorials | |
| Icarus Verilog | compiler | | |
| ICMS - Interactive Catchment Management System | PC-based software product developed to facilitate the rapid development and delivery of catchment science to catchment managers | | |
| iDVD | Mac OSX DVD creation software (Part of iLife 11) | iDVD Tutorials | |
| IFS - Interactive Forest Simulator | | ||
| Igor Pro | Only installed in Lab GO25 & Lab G022 Copland [24] | Igor Pro Guided Tour | |
| iLife | Multimedia software suite used to create, organise, publish & view digital content | iLife Support | |
| 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 CS5.5) | Illustrator Tutorials (Pulse Link) Adobe TV illustrator Tutorials | |
| Image Capture | Transfer photos, video clips and MP3 sounds to your computer (Part of MacOS X (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | Image Capture 6.0 Help | |
| iMovie | Video editing software for Mac OSX (Part of iLife 11) | iMovie Tutorials iMovie / iSight Tutorial | |
| 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 CS5.5) | InDesign Tutorials & Tips Adobe TV Indesign training | |
| InkScape | Graphics editor | tutorial and documentation | |
| Innopac | Part of the library management systems | | |
| Inspiration | Tool for students to plan work | Inspiration Quick Start (pdf) | |
| Internet Explorer (IE) | Default windows internet browser | | |
| iPhoto | Import, organize, edit, print and share digital photos. (Part of iLife 11) | iPhoto Getting Started PDF iPhoto Apple support | |
| iPython | The goal of IPython is to create a comprehensive environment for interactive and exploratory computing. (Part of Python ) | Presentations, tutorials | |
| iShowUHD | Real time screen recording for your Mac | | |
| iTunes | Media player | iTunes Tutorials | |
| iWeb | What you see is what you get template-based website creation tool (Part of iLife 11) | Find out how iWeb | |
| iWork | Application suite containing Pages - a word processing and desktop publishing application - Keynote - a presentation package and Numbers - a spreadsheet application | iWork tutorials | |
| Java Neural Network Simulator (JNNS) | design and train neural networks | | |
| Jaws | Reads text on the screen aloud so you can listen to the text. | Jaws Tutorials | |
| JMP | Statistics | JMP support | |
| Keynote '09 | Presentation software, similar to PowerPoint, on Mac (Makes very clean & professional looking presentations) | Keynote Tutorials | |
| Kurzweil 3000 Professional | Reading, Writing and Learning Assistance Software for Students | Kurzweil user reference guide | |
| 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. | LaTeX Hints and Tips (Alliance Link) LaTeX Hints & Tips (ANU Site) | |
| LibreOffice | LibreOffice is a free productivity suite for Macintosh | Features for version 3.4 | |
| LTSpice | Simulation tool and device model | User Guide | |
| Lucid Professional | Lucid tools are powerful and highly flexible knowledge management software applications designed to help users with identification or diagnostic tasks. | | |
| Lynx | Text only web browser | | |
| M68k-GCC | Allows the compilation of programs to run on Motorola 68000 series processors | | |
| Mac OSX | Apple Macintosh operating system | | |
| MacClade | A computer program for phylogenetic analysis - its analytical strength is in studies of character evolution | MacClade Intro | |
| Maple | Powerful mathematics and modeling software | Maple Tutorial University of Texas SPSS | |
| Material Studios | Materials Studio is a comprehensive materials modeling and simulation application | Material Studios Overview | |
| Mathematica | Computations - Only available in CoS IC lab locations | Resources | |
| MATLAB | Mathematical computation program - good at dealing with matrices | Matlab Documentation University of Texas SPSS | |
| Matplotlib | for Python, matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library (Part of Python ) | Matplotlib documentation | |
| Maya | High end 3D modeling and computer graphics | Getting Started With Maya | |
| Microfit | Application for econometric analysis of time series data. | Microfit Intro | |
| Microsoft Office | Microsoft office suite, including word, excel and PowerPoint etc. (Part of Microsoft Office) | Office Help Office Tutorials (Pulse link) | |
| MicroSoft Support and Training | Link to online Micorsoft training modules | Link to training website | |
| MiKTeX | Typesetting system allowing the creation of computer printed mathamatics & calculations. | MikTeX documentation MiKTex User Guide | |
| Millennium | Web- and Java-based automated library system | | |
| MinGW GCC compiler | general purpose systems and applications programming language | | |
| Minitab | Statistics | Minitab 16 Intro PDF | |
| Motion | 3D animation tool (Part of Final Cut Studio 7) | Motion 4 tutorials | |
| MultiSpec | System for interactively analyzing Earth observational multispectral image data | MultiSpec Tutorials | |
| Musition | Music theory and fundamentals package | | |
| MYOB Accounting Plus | Accounting software - provides accounting - retail and payroll software | User Guide | |
| MySQL | Database program | Getting Started with MySQL | |
| MySQL GUI | Graphical user interface for MySQL databases | | |
| National Carbon Accounting ToolBox (NCAT) | Track Greenhouse Gas | Visual reference guide | |
| NetDraw | Social Network Analysis Software, NetDraw is a program for drawing networks. | Intro to UCINET and NetDraw | |
| Netica | Belief networks and influence diagrams for data mining, decision analysis, diagnosis, prediction, creating software agents | Netica Resources | |
| Neuron | Simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons. | Neuron Tutorials | |
| Neurons in Acton | Interactive tutorials for Neuron | tutorials | |
| Nvivo | designed to help you manage and analyse data that is not easily reduced to numbers | Nvivo Documentation Nvivo Information NVivo Tutorials | |
| Open Office | Open Source equivalent of Microsoft Office | Open Office User guides | |
| Oracle Policy Modeling | ONLY provided in LAW G17 | | |
| Pages | Page layout application for Mac | Pages Turorials | |
| Pajek | Program for Large Network Analysis | Pajek Manual | |
| PAUP | Tool for inferring and interpreting phylogenetic trees | PAUP Quick Start PDF | |
| PC1D | Used for modeling crystalline solar cells | | |
| PD | Pure Data Computer Music System | | |
| Perl | A dynamic programming language | | |
| PhotoBooth | Small application for taking photos with an iSight (Part of MacOS X (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | PhotoBooth Tutorial | |
| Photoshop | Popular and very powerful digital image editing program produced by Adobe (Part of Adobe CS5.5) | Photoshop Tutorials (Pulse link) Adobe TV Photoshop CS5 training | |
| PhotoSynthesis in Silo | understanding of photosynthesis processes. | | |
| Poser | 3D rendering and animation | Poser Tutorials Poser Video Tutorials | |
| PowerPoint | Popular presentation software (Part of Microsoft Office) | PowerPoint Training Microsoft Presentations (Microsoft link) PowePoint Tutorials (Pulse link) | |
| Praat | Program for the analysis of speech in phonetics | Praat Website | |
| Project Standard | project management software only available in two lab locations Copland [24] lab G021 and Engineering [32] lab G1(E145) | Project Tutorials(Pulse Link) Project Help Microsoft | |
| PSpice A/D (Student) | Design and simulate analog and digital electronic circuits. | PSpice Tutorial | |
| 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) | Publisher Training Publisher Tutorials (Pulse link) | |
| Putty (SSH Client) | A terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH- Telnet- rlogin- and raw TCP computing protocols | Putty Tips | |
| Python | Dynamic object-oriented programming language (Part of Python ) | Python Tutorial Python beginners tutorial | |
| Qmaster | Provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects (Distributes workload over several machines) (Part of Final Cut Studio 7) | QMaster Manual | |
| QuickSilver | Allows users to quickly launch applications, manipulate files and data, run scripts or send e-mails with a keyboard shortcuts | | |
| QuickTime Broadcaster | Allows the creation of live broadcasts. Can be used for creating video pod casts etc. | | |
| QuickTime Player | Media player used to play most video files. | | |
| QuickTime Professional | Media player used to play most video files. That also allows the editing and re-encoding of video files. | Quicktime Tutorials | |
| R | Statistics | R Examples PDF | |
| Ramas Ecolab | Teaching tool for basic principles of population ecology | | |
| Read and Write Gold | Gives speech feedback - spell checking and word prediction in practically any windows program | Speech Input Help Scanner Help | |
| Real Player | Media player that can play .rm files | | |
| Respondus Equation Editor | Powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard - Wattle - eCollege - ANGEL and other eLearning systems | Respondus Demos | |
| Revisor | Spanish composition tools | | |
| RStudio | RStudio™ is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for R | | |
| S-Plus | Statistics | Splus 8.2 Documentation | |
| Safari | Default Mac OSX web browser | Safari Tutorials | |
| Scilab | Numerical Computations | Scilab Tutorial | |
| Screen Capture (IfranView) | Screen capture and image manipulation program. | Irfanview Tutorial | |
| Scypy | SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering (Part of Python ) | Scypy documentation | |
| 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. | Shake Tutorials | |
| SHAZAM Professional | Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to make econometrics easier to perform. | Shazam Help Shazam / Excel Tutorial | |
| 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. | Sibelius Video Tutorials | |
| SimplyBurns | Very simple - easy to use CD/DVD burning software | Simply Burns Website | |
| SIMPROCESS | Modeling tool - ONLY in ENGN Labs E145 & E101 | online training | |
| Skype | Free video calling makes it easy to be together | Skype Features | |
| SnagIt | Screen capture program. Can be used whenever you want to save what you see on the screen. | Snagit Tutorials | |
| SolidWorks | 3D mechanical CAD application | Solid Works Resources | |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | Antivirus software | Sophos Information | |
| SoundHack | Shareware sound processing program, which does various conversions including sample rate changes, file headers and plays header less files. | Sound Hack user guide | |
| SoundSource | SoundSource is a tool for OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click | | |
| 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 7) | Starting with Soundtrack | |
| SPSS IBM | Statistics | SPSS Website SPSS HowTos | |
| Standpak | A computer model for innovative forest managers | | |
| Stata | Statistics | Stata Info Stata Faqs | |
| Statistica | Statistics | Statistica HowTos | |
| Stella | Only available in Crawford lab 3 - Dynamically visualize and communicate how complex systems work | Stella Tutorials | |
| Strand Finite Element Analysis | Strand Website | | |
| Stuffit Expander | Compression software, similar to WinZip | | |
| SubVersion | An open-source revision control system | Subversion Info | |
| SuperCollider | SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. | SuperCollider Reasources | |
| SymmetryWorks | Pattern design plug-in for illustrator - allows you to repeat patterns | | |
| Terminal | A terminal emulator that allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface. (Part of MacOS X (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | | |
| teTeX | Typesetting system - useful for typesetting complex maths or physics equations | teTeX documentation | |
| TeX Support | Allows the use of laTeX and TeX files | teTeX documentation | |
| TeXShop | Graphical interface for TeX | | |
| TextAloud | Text to speech software | TextAloud 2.0 Users Manual | |
| TextWrangler | A powerful general purpose text editor | TextWrangler Support | |
| Thunderbird | Open source email and news client | Thunderbird Tutorials | |
| TibKey | Allows the entry of Tibetan text into windows applications | | |
| Tidebreak ClassSpot Host | creating interactive Class rooms | User Manual | |
| TideBreak Client | Part of ClassSpot Host and TeamSpot Host software | | |
| Tidebreak TeamSpot Host | All the team's joint work is done on the big screen, which is driven by the TeamSpot Host computer | What is TeamSpot and how to use | |
| Toad Data Modeler | Database design tool | | |
| Toast Titanium | CD/DVD authoring software | | |
| Toolbox (The Field Linguist’s Toolbox) | Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. (Part of SIL FieldWorks) | More about ToolBox | |
| Transcriber | | ||
| Type IT | Learn to type with this application | Type IT Tutorials (Pulse Link) | |
| Typequick | Learn how to touch type | Learn to Touch Type (ILP) | |
| Ucinet | Analysis of social network data | Ucinet Website | |
| Unity Web Player | The Unity Web Player enables you to view blazing 3D content created with Unity directly in your browser | | |
| Vensim PLE | Vensim PLE is fully functional system dynamics software | Vensim Tutorial | |
| 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 | Capturing in VirtualDub | |
| Visio Professional | Only available in two lab locations Copland, [24] G021 and LAW [5]G17 | Visio Training (Microsoft) | |
| Visual C++ | The C++ component of MS Visual studio. Used for creating C++ application using the .NET framework | Visual C 6 Tutorial | |
| VLC | Free media player - Plays anything | VLC Documentation VLC Projects | |
| VMWare Fusion | Run Windows, the Mac way | Fusion resources guides | |
| 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 (Snow Leopard v10.6.8)) | Voiceover Website | |
| VOSON NodeXL | a plugin for NodeXL (Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel) | VOSON ANU website | |
| vPython | Allows the programming of 3D models and visuals (Part of Python ) | vPython Documentation | |
| Wacom Tablet | Allows the use of the graphics/handwriting tablet. | Wacom FAQ | |
| WaveSurfer | Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation | WaveSurfer Manual | |
| Webster's Spanish/English Dictionary | Spanish English dictionary | | |
| Wenlin | Software for learning Chinese | Wenlin FAQ | |
| Wimba Create | Converts Word documents into fully functional web sites | Wimba Create user guide | |
| WinaXe | WinaXe Windows X Server transparently connects different operating systems and their applications together. | WinaXe Tutorial | |
| Window Movie Maker | Create edit and add special effects to your movies | How to use Movie maker | |
| Windows Media Player | Windows build in media player. In conjunction with ffmpeg should play most things | How to use Media Player | |
| WinEDT | A powerful and versatile ASCII editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents | WinEDT Faq | |
| Word | Microsoft Office word processing application - Lots of tools and easy to use. (Part of Microsoft Office) | Word Training (Microsoft) Word Tutorials (Pulse link) Training Manual (Alliance Link) | |
| Xcode - with all developer tools | Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. Make programs that run on Mac OSX | Xcode Tutorial | |
| Xilinx | FPGA, Processor and digital circuit design tool | xilinx Tutorial | |
| ZoomText | Zooms in on the screen effectively making everything larger. Also can read out text on the screen. Part of the DCS programs | ZoomText Tutorial | |
| Zotero | Standalone install only | |
