Software

Here's a list of software commonly used in the department. You may wish to add tips or questions to the program's wiki page.

Mac

Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each) MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc. fugu -- a nice GUI version of SFTP/SCP for the Mac

Linux

Perl -- Handy programming language for all sorts of things

Windows

Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each) MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc. Adobe PDF tools -- Making PDFs (free alternatives also available) Adobe Photoshop -- Image Manipulation Adobe Illustrator -- Graphics creation Irfanview -- Image viewing program more flexible than the default Microsoft Image viewer Cygwin -- linux utilities for Windows ArcGIS -- ESRI's GIS program Putty -- Small suite of tools for doing SSH/SFTP/SCP SSH Secure Shell -- An alternative tool for doing SSH/SFTP Origin -- A fancy plotting & graph program Surfer -- A fancy plotting & graph program Perl -- Handy programming language for all sorts of things