Acrobat 7.0.7 Professional [2006.08.09] (back to top)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Graphical Miscellaneous Adobe CS2 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional

Whether files need to be shared across the office or around the globe, the Adobe Acrobat product family enables businesses to simplify document processes using Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). A standard adopted by governments and enterprises worldwide, Adobe PDF is a reliable format for electronic document exchange that preserves document integrity so files can be viewed and printed on a variety of platforms.

• Easy Adobe PDF file creation
  Create Adobe PDF files with the click of a button from Microsoft Office applications and, for Windows users, from Internet Explorer, Microsoft Project and Visio, and AutoCAD®.
• Document merge
  Convert and combine proposals, presentations, images, and other documents into one compact Adobe PDF file in a single step (Windows only), and add headers, footers, and watermarks.
• Review management
  Create lists of reviewers and track the feedback received. Gather comments into a single Adobe PDF file, or view them collectively in a separate window for easy reconciliation.
• Layers and large-format support
  Preserve layers in Adobe PDF files created from AutoCAD and Microsoft Visio, and easily create Adobe PDF files in standard large-format sizes, including ARCH, ISO, JIS, and ANSI.
• High-quality print output
  Reduce late-stage errors by sending Adobe PDF files for final output. Print composite output for high-quality proofs, save composite EPS files, or create host-based or in-RIP separations.
• Built-in preflighting
  Check Adobe PDF files to ensure proper creation, and preview color separations as well as transparency flattening.
• Forms creation
  Create interactive electronic forms that can be completed and submitted online, simplifying review processes in small workgroups.
• Robust commenting tools
  Create custom stamps or dynamic date-time stamps, and redline documents with oval, cloud, and other drawing tools. Indicate text insertions and deletions with a single keystroke.
• Enhanced file viewing and navigation
  View two areas of a large drawing simultaneously using a split-pane view. Zoom in on unreadable areas without affecting the magnification level of the rest of the document.
• PDF/X compliance
  Examine Adobe PDF files for PDF/X compliance and PostScript level compatibility for reliable printing.

Address Book 4.0.3 [2006.07.19] (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/addressbook/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Utilities Address Book

Each card can hold and attractively display and label all the information you want to keep, no matter how many phone numbers and email addresses a particular friend might have. There's also a space for random notes — birthday, the dog's name, etc. — and adding a picture is a simple matter of drag and drop.

But Address Book can do more than just display card contents; it also lets you actively use them. Click on address to ask the Web for a map showing the location. Click on a home page URL to launch the web site. Click on an email address to send a message — if it happens to be a mac.com address, you can also open that person's iDisk public folder or send them an instant message via iChat . And if you've got a Bluetooth-equipped cell phone, Address Book can automatically sync with it, alert you when a you've got a incoming call, and display the Caller ID information.

Adobe Reader 8 [2006.07.25] (back to top)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Utilities Adobe Reader 8

Adobe Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. This new version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat Reader provides a host of rich features that enable you to:

• Submit Adobe PDF forms that are created with fillable form fields in such applications as Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Form Designer
• Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files
• Read and organize high-fidelity eBooks
• Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files
• Display Adobe Photoshop? Album slide shows and electronic cards and export images for online photo processing (online photo services vary regionally)

Affrus 1.0.5 [2007.02.28] (back to top)
http://www.latenightsw.com/affrus/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Programming Affrus 1.0.5

Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and debugging environment for Mac OS X. It wraps Perl in a standard, familiar, and intuitive user interface. Affrus is the perfect center for all your Perl development needs on Mac OS X. Whether you're just beginning to experiment with Perl and want an easy way to get your feet wet, or you're a Perl expert wishing to understand and hack into a vast body of existing code, Affrus is for you.

Editing
The Affrus editor is tailored to the Perl language. It provides syntax coloring, identifier indexing, and a host of other editing tools to make Perl development faster. Affrus integrates with Bare Bones Software's BBEdit and TextWranger for those who prefer to edit in these tools.

Debugging
Affrus presents a full-featured graphical debugger tuned to the needs of Perl programmers. The debugger features step-wise execution, breakpoints, tracing, and expression evaluation as well as stack frame tracing with full access to locally scoped (my) variables. The debugger also displays all Perl registers and variables from any Package.

Command Line Integration
Affrus provides a command line tool that allows all of Affrus's debugging capabilities to be invoked from Mac OS X's command line. For instance, you can pipe stdin to the command line tool to debug with live data.

What's New?

• Fixed a number of problems with the Recent Files menu where it would mount servers.
• Fixed crashing bug when pressing Enter in a split editor window.
• Fixed issues with changes made to files behind Affrus' back.
• Fixed a number of lexer errors detecting a number of Perl operators.
• Affrus now properly retains Perl Configuration definitions.
• Arguments panel changes to better handle dragged files.
• Editing an argument set now makes it the active argument set.
• Compile time errors in external modules no longer cause Affrus' UI to get confused.
• $::ident is now properly colored.
• Affrus' software update detection now properly handles the case where a firewall prevents if from reaching www.latenightsw.com and returns an HTML error rather than the XML data that Affrus expects.
• Double-clicking Perl special variable identifiers (e.g. $+) now correctly selects the identifier.
• AppleScript: can now properly save files with long (>31) file names in HFS paths.
• AppleScript: setting selected error and selected argument set properties to none de-selects current selection.

After Effects 7.0 Professional [2006.09.22] (back to top)
http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Video Authoring After Effects

Animate your ideas. Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 Professional software helps you create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with efficiency, precision, and infinite variety. Take advantage of unmatched integration with other Adobe software, flexible 2D and 3D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a new dimension to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia® Flash® productions

• Graph Editor
  Edit Value and Speed graphs in the Graph Editor, or let After Effects choose the one most appropriate for the animated property.
• Timesaving Animation and Behavior Presets plus project templates
  Produce great-looking animations quickly using hundreds of fully customizable Animation Presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions, backgrounds, and behaviors. Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds
• Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support
  Experience real-time performance with advanced OpenGL 2.0 capabilities including support for blending modes as well as motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows and transparency, and accelerated rendering of common effects. Use OpenGL for accelerated final renders.
• Adobe Bridge
  Simplify the everyday tasks of asset management with Adobe Bridge, which offers powerful ways to browse and search digital assets, preview and apply presets, work with metadata, manage files, and run batch processes.
• Macromedia Flash Video (FLV) export
  Streamline the process of encoding video and audio for your Flash projects with new FLV export.
• Unmatched Adobe integration
  Experience an efficient Adobe workflow: Import Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator® files with attributes preserved, and, in Windows®, import Adobe Premiere® Pro projects, add motion to static Adobe Encore® DVD software menus, export After Effects projects as Adobe Premiere Pro projects, and more.
• Redesigned, unified user interface
  Work within an elegantly redesigned interface featuring workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, eliminating overlapping windows. Save custom workspaces, control UI brightness, and more
• HDR color support
  Match the behavior of color and light in the real world with new 32-bit HDR color support. Achieve photo-realism by compositing in 32-bit-per-channel floating-point color. (Professional edition only.)

Amadeus II 3.8.7 [2006.10.19] (back to top)
http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Audio Amadeus II 3.8.7

Amadeus II is a powerful tool designed to manipulate, record, create and analyze sounds.

Support of the MP3 and Ogg Vorbis codecs
Support of the Mp3 and Ogg Vorbis codecs that allow you to achieve very low file sizes, while preserving most of the original quality of your sounds.

Support of VST Audio plugins
This plugin format allows you access to many professional sound effects from within Amadeus II. Several free plugins are included with this distribution. The effects of VST plugins can be previewed in real-time and an arbitrary number of settings can be saved for each plugin.

Sound repairing functions
Amadeus II allows you to easily remove background noise and/or little cracks from a recording, making it the ideal tool for restoring old LP's.

Analyzing functions
It is very easy to create sonograms or to make a detailed spectral analysis of a signal using Amadeus II

More features of Amadeus II include:

• Localization in french, german and italian.
• Audio Units support under MacOS X 10.2 and later.
• Support for 16 and 24Bit sounds and arbitrary sampling rates.
• Multiple undoing.
• Fast forward / rewind.
• CoreAudio support under MacOS X.
• Extensive support of markers.
• Fadings, transitions, normalization.
• Very fast filtering (using G4 velocity engine).
• Support for the formats AIFF/AIFC/Wave/Mp3/Ogg Vorbis/QuickTime/AVI/SoundDesigner II/u-law.
• Support for AAC encoding.
• Raw sound data import/export.
• Possibility to split files and to join several files together.
• Real-time spectral analysis and oscilloscope.
• Multiple scraps.
• Several sound generators.

AOL Instant Messenger 4.7 [2004.08.31] (back to top)
http://www.aim.com/get_aim/mac/latest_macosx.adp for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Chat & Talk AOL Instant Messenger 4.7

You don't have to be an America Online member to experience the immediate cross-Internet communication made possible by AOL Instant Messenger. This program allows Internet users to communicate via private, personalized text messages. AOL Instant Messenger indicates when friends, family members, and business colleagues are online, making Internet communications faster, easier, and more efficient. AOL Instant Messenger combines AOL's popular Buddy List and Instant Message features, enabling users to send and respond to messages immediately.

What's New
Friendly Name support is here - no more hard-to-remember names for your ICQ or Mobile users on your Buddy List! Now, when you add an ICQ or Mobile user to your Buddy List, you will have an opportunity to create a more familiar Friendly Name for that user. You can also edit existing ICQ or Mobile users on your Buddy List to add a Friendly Name to their entry. Once you've created a Friendly Name for an ICQ or Mobile user, you will see their Friendly Name, when they're online, in your Buddy List, Instant Messages with them, and other places in AIM.

Note: you can always see the ICQ/Mobile User's true screen name by using the Get Info command.

Multi-point File Sharing
With AIM Mac's new File Sharing implementation, sharing files with your buddies has never been easier! You are no longer required to have one Shared Folder. Instead, you can share files from multiple locations. Just drag a file or folder from anywhere on your computer into the My Shared Files window and it will automatically be shared--without changing the file's/folder's location.

Applet Launcher 1.7 [2005.10.07] (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/lae/macosx/technologies/java2.html for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Programming Apple Developer Tools Applications Java Tools Applet Launcher

Mac OS X includes Applet Launcher to let you run Java Applets — whether they're located on your hard disk or on the Internet — without opening a web browser.

AppleWorks 6.2.9 [2005.01.04] (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Office & Productivity AppleWorks AppleWorks 6.2.9

AppleWorks combines word processing, page layout, image manipulation, spreadsheets, databases and presentations in a single application. To help users easily and effectively express their ideas, AppleWorks provides users with direct access to a dynamic library of Internet-based templates that assist in the creation of professional looking documents, such as newsletters, business cards, mailing labels and party invitations. In addition, AppleWorks features enhanced formatting tools that enable one-click integration of text, spreadsheet, images and movies into a single document.

What's new in this version:
Improvements to the presentation module, AppleScript, web content searching, printing, label printing, table support, and spell checking with user added words. The update provides better recognition and handling of Office 97 and Office 2000 files, improved support for multimedia files in database documents, improved web template downloading over slow internet connections, improved spreadsheet module--including Auto-Calculation, as well as enhanced support for documents which contain links. This version also supports web based templates and clipart on networks using proxy servers.

ArtRage 2.0 Free [2006.07.25] (back to top)
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Graphical ArtRage ArtRage 2.0

ArtRage 2 is a fun and easy to use painting tool for Mac OSX that lets you play with realistic paints on your computer. You can create your own paintings from nothing, load in photos and recreate them with oil paints, pencils, felt pens, or any of the other tools ArtRage has to offer. You can experiment with metallic paint for gold leafing, sprinkle shiny glitter, fill in large areas with the paint roller, and generally paint, smudge, and smear your way to your very own masterpiece. The Free Edition contains all the features of ArtRage 1, plus the speed and technology improvements in ArtRage 2 and a few new features for good measure.

ARTstor Offline Image Viewer 2.6 [2007.02.28] (back to top)
http://www.artstor.org/info/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Utilities ARTstor Offline Image Viewer

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.

The Offline Image Viewer allows users to download pre-created image sets to view while not online or connected to ARTstor. Individual users will need to set up (free) accounts to use ARTstor and to connect to download image sets into the OIV. The ARTstor web site also requires that pop-up windows be allowed. (i.e. "Block Pop-Ups" be unchecked.)

Audacity 1.3.3beta [2008.04.10] (back to top)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Audio Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects

Automator 1.0.5 [2008.04.10] (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Utilities Apple Automator

Accomplish all of your time-consuming, repetitive manual tasks quickly, efficiently and effortlessly with Automator Workflows. It’s simple to create custom Workflows just by dragging items, pointing and clicking. Perform the task once using your Automator Workflow or many times — even share Workflows with friends.

You can easily automate tasks such as renaming a large group of files, resizing dozens of images to fit an iPhoto slideshow or creating iCal birthday events using Address Book contacts, then repeat those tasks again and again. Simple and easy-to-understand application Actions are the building blocks, so you don’t have to write any code. Each Action has all of the options and settings you need. You don’t have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.