BBEdit 8.5 [2006.10.19] (back to top)
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/features.shtml for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Programming BBEdit

BBEdit is a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. It is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text. BBEdit provides an array of general-purpose features which are useful for a wide variety of tasks, and includes many features which have been specifically developed in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers.

See the release notes for 8.5 here.

Blender 2.41 [2006.02.16] (back to top)
http://www.blender.org/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Graphical Blender 2.41

Blender is an integrated suite of tools enabling the creation of a broad range of 3D content. It offers full functionality for modeling, rendering, animation, post-production, creation and playback of interactive 3D content with the singular benefits of cross-platform operability and a download file size of less than 2.5MB.

Aimed at media professionals and artists, Blender can be used to create 3D visualizations, stills as well as broadcast quality video, while the incorporation of a real-time 3D engine allows for the creation of 3D interactive content for stand-alone playback.

Originally developed by the company 'Not a Number' (NaN), Blender now is continued as 'Free Software', with the sources available under GNU GPL.

What's new in this version:

A fresh release packed with new features, and documented as never before! Click here for details.

BlueJ 2.2.0 [2008.04.10] (back to top)
http://www.bluej.org/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Programming BlueJ

BlueJ is an integrated Java development environment developed specifically for introductory programming learning and teaching. It is ideal for small-scale development. BlueJ offers a very easy-to-use and highly interactive interface that allows the interactive creation and invocation of objects.

The BlueJ environment was developed as part of a university research project about teaching object-orientation to beginners. The system is being developed and maintained by a joint research group at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, the Mærsk Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, and the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. The project is supported by Sun Microsystems.

The aim of BlueJ is to provide an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language that facilitates the teaching of Java to first year students. Special emphasis has been placed on visualization and interaction techniques to create a highly interactive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration.

Calculator 4.0.5 [2006.04.11] (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Utilities Calculator

Add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Click number and function buttons, or type on your keyboard.

Camino 1.5 [2008.04.10] (back to top)
http://caminobrowser.org/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Web Browsers Camino

Camino is a web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. It's the simple, secure, and fast browser for Mac OS X. Camino practices the art of simplicity with an uncluttered user interface but with the features you expect from a modern browser like tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking settings. Integrated with Google, Camino's Google search field lets you find what you need faster. We take your security and privacy seriously. That's why Camino comes with advanced cookie settings. Camino also helps you recognize when entering and leaving secure web sites. One of the fastest browsers on MacOS X -innovative features enhance what you get out of the internet. The power behind Camino is the Gecko rendering engine, built and tested by thousands of volunteers, incorporating the absolute cutting edge in web innovations.

What's new in this version:

CastStream Player 2.5.0 [2005.10.07] (back to top)
http://www.caststream.com/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Multimedia caststream player 2.5.0 (r302)

Cast:stream is a simple but compelling way to broadcast your presentations to your audience, wherever they may be - on your corporate LAN or half way around the world.

The cast:stream Player application provides the viewer with a totally immersive user experience, displaying video of the presenter simultaneously with slides and rich media. The Player also allows the viewer to send messages to the presenter and other participants in real-time during a broadcast for a fully interactive experience.

ChemDraw 8.0.6 [2004.11.16] (back to top)
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/software/product.cfm?pid=4010 for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Works with all currently installed web browsers

ChemDraw is the ultimate chemical drawing application. The ChemDraw internet browser plugin allows you to view and manipulate chemical structures within a browser window.

Cinema 4D 8.503 [2005.10.07] (back to top)
http://maxon.net/jumps/cinema4d_portal_e.html for more information.

—Only available in the Sage Point lab and the MMC Video Editing Macs.
—Look under Applications Video Authoring CINEMA_4D_R8

Product Description:
Turn almost any computer into a 3D animation studio with CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D's enhanced architecture promises workstation performance on consumer hardware, so you can build your own animation studio with less investment than ever before. Incredibly fast workflow in a fully integrated 3D environment combined with the world's fastest raytracer will help you produce mind-boggling 3D graphics quicker than ever before.

What's new in this version:
Offers many long-awaited features, including notable improvements to the material system and enhancements that open a floodgate of character animation possibilities. CINEMA 4D R8s efficient workflow has now fully extended to the material system, with full integration of the SLA shader set. The addition of smarter, faster bones and FBX import/export capabilities provide a host of character animation opportunities. Numerous other improvements including the new BetterBoole modeling tool round out this outstanding upgrade. Owners of CINEMA 4Ds Advanced Render Module also benefit from powerful new rendering features at no additional cost. Make renders more realistic than ever before with sub-surface scattering, vector motion blur and object-based global illumination.

Citrix ICA Client 7.00.400 [2004.11.18] (back to top)
http://www.citrix.com/site/SS/downloads/details.asp?dID=2755&downloadID=3250 for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Internet & Terminal Citrix ICA Client

With the Citrix ICA Client for Macintosh, local and remote users can access any Windows-based application running on the server. This software is needed to access many of the University's subscription-only article/journal databases.

Cleaner 6.5 [2006.03.02] (back to top)
http://www.discreet.com/products/cleaner/cleaner6/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Video Authoring Cleaner 6.5

Autodesk® Cleaner® for the Apple® Macintosh® computer is an industry leader for professional video encoding and an indispensable complement to any desktop digital content creation tool. With Cleaner software, video editors are only a click away from delivering the highest quality video output – every time.

Transform, optimize, and encode high-quality media for delivery in multiple formats.

Key features in Cleaner 6.5

• NEW! Integrated DivX® 6.0 and flash video (FLV & SWF) export capabilities. In addition to all the other formats, Cleaner now allows users to directly encode their media with high-quality standards to more recent formats.
• Support for more than 60 media formats, including QuickTime® 7, MPEG-4 and AAC.
• 3GP and Sony MQV support to encode to common handheld devices
• Support for Microsoft® Windows Media® 7, including multi-channel audio
• Support for Real 10, which includes RealVideo® and RealAudio®
• Kinoma® format for Palm® OS based PDAs.
• Fast MPEG encoding (including 4:2:2 and two-pass) speeds
• Robust support of the industry’s most compelling media formats including: MPEG (1, 2 & 4), MP3, AVI, and WAV
• Apply Professional Filtering and Encoding Presets to encode easily—right out of the box. Reference these professionally designed presets to better understand encoding output quality tradeoffs, or tweak the presets to get exactly what you want without starting from scratch.

Colloquy 2.1 [2007.11.17] (back to top)
http://colloquy.info/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Chat & Talk Colloquy

Traditionally, IRC clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

• AppleScript - A powerful dictionary for easy scripting.
• Fast & Solid IRC Core Powered by the Firetalk engine.
• Plug-In Love- Unlimited extensibility through Plug-Ins.
• Styled For You - Pick the look for your conversations.
• Colors of the World - Fully compatible with mIRC colors.
• Open Minded - Open source, like it should be.
• Unintrusive Interface - Sleek multi- or single-window modes.
• File Transfer Medly - Full DCC transfer support with resume.
• They're Your Buddies - A buddy list for your IRC friends.
• Express Yourself - Use the emotions that speak for you.
• Multiplicity - The freedom to chat on multiple servers.
• Much, Much More! - Just a better experience all-around.

What's new in this version:

• Finished the Spotlight importer, searching for words and nickname will pull up all relevant transcripts.
• Updated the Novel style to remove the odd trailing double quotes. All messages are on their own line now.
• Removed the system default find panel when hitting Command-F with the input field focused. Colloquy's find panel is now correctly used.
• Customizing a variant in the appearance preferences will again show you a live preview. All chats using that Style/Variant combination will need reloaded (/reload style) to show the changes.
• Shadows will no longer draw on the contents of the chat area when using a transparent background, this could only be fixed on Tiger.
• The default variant of Synapse now has a transparent background, create a new variant if you want a different feel.
• Added error messages when messaging a user that is not online, or "whoising" an offline user.
• Added a new search toolbar item that will let you do simple searches on the chat scrollback. The highlight color is customizable in the Appearance Variant preferences. The scrollbar will be marked with orange showing you where all the matches are.
• The system time format (24 hour or AM/PM) is again honored for all bundled styles. Our SILC support was incorrectly sending all messages as ISO Latin, when it should always be UTF-8. This has been corrected.

Compression Master 3.2.1 [2006.01.04] (back to top)
http://www.popwire.com/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Video Authoring Compression Master 3.2.1

With the introduction of Compression Master from Popwire Technology the reliability and speed of server based video encoding is brought to the desktop. With its extensive format support Compression Master converts to and from all common formats such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, DV, H.264, 3GPP, Flash, Windows and Real Media.

Start from one of 80+ supplied templates, or create your own encoding settings from scratch. Group your settings together. Drop a group of multiple encoding settings onto multiple content files, and watch as Compression Master produces the requested output media for all settings and all content files in one swift operation.

Developed from scratch in native OS X code, leveraging years of expertise in video and audio processing, Popwire's codecs are blazingly fast, while delivering unsurpassed quality. Additionally, these codecs give you access to over 45 media formats, such as MPEG2, MPEG4, DV, QuickTime, H.264, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and native OS X encoding of Windows and Real Media. Compression Master is built for experts of media mastering who want to focus their skill on mastering, not on repetitive file tasks.

What's new in this version:

• The issue with encoding RealMedia on OS X 10.4 has been solved.
• An issue with HDV has been resolved.
• An issue with audio that could appear if you would change video codec has been fixed.
• An issue with m2t clips has been resolved.
• It was possible to use "manual timecode" even if "same as source" is active. This has been fixed.
• When using a encoded m2v file in DVD Studio Pro, sometimes the first frame would be green. This has been resolved.
• It is now possible to create Vidiator MBR files even if hinting is not enabled.
• An issue with using "%" in the file name has been fixed.
• Some audio clips got truncated when exporting to mov. The resulting movie's duration was valid, but the last second(s) was sometimes silent. This has been resolved.
• An issue which required mp3 encodings to have source material with no video has been fixed.

Adobe Contribute 4.1.0.2867 [2008.04.10] (back to top)
http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Web Authoring Contribute 3

Adobe Contribute enables anyone to quickly, easily, and safely update existing websites and blogs. With Contribute 4, content authors can post and publish content to multiple websites and blogs from a single application or publish directly from within Microsoft Office applications. And because Contribute 4 works seamlessly with Macromedia® Dreamweaver® from Adobe, website integrity is not compromised — even when multiple authors update content across the site.

Cyberduck 2.6.1 [2007.01.12] (back to top)
http://cyberduck.ch/ for more information.

—Available in all labs.
—Look under Applications Internet & Terminal Cyberduck 2.6.1

Cyberduck is an open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licensed under the GPL. It has been built from the ground up with usability in mind, having the same consistent graphical user interface for both SFTP and FTP browsing. Multiple connections are supported. Drag and drop is supported consequently for transferring files between server and client. A transfer queue keeps track of the pending file transfers and supports resuming of both downloads and uploads. A simple bookmark manager ensures manageability. Core system technologies such as the Keychain and Rendezvous are supported. Cyberduck integrates seamlessly with external editors such as SubEthaEdit and BBEdit. Cyberduck has been translated into numerous languages including English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Slovak and Czech.

• Open multiple simultaneous connections
• Document based interface
• Support for various encodings
• Live filtering of directory listings
• Caching folder listings
• Move files
• Rename files
• Delete files
• Drag and drop to save bookmark as a file
• Drop files onto bookmarks to upload to remote host
• Resume downloads (FTP and SFTP)
• Resume uploads (FTP and SFTP)
• Download folders (recursive)
• Upload folders (recursive)
• Drag and drop to transfer files (Finder ↔ Cyberduck)
• Modify permissions on multiple files
• Convert line endings on the fly in ASCII transfers

What's New

• [Bugfix] Spinning beach ball of death when connecting on some systems
• [Bugfix] Better validating drop targets in browser