Category: Software

Academic Technology, Software, Students

Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for OS X Lion (10.7) now available

Mark Davis

ITS has just made Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for Lion available from the ITS software page for all College faculty, staff and students to use. This latest update offers the following enhancements: Added support for the Intel Macintosh. The installer will install the correct version based on the processor in your computer. Bitmap file export such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF now uses QuickTime to generate the export files. As a result, several new options are available for some of the formats such as byte ordering, LZW compression, and variable JPEG export quality. High Resolution TIFF images are exported with … Continue reading Kaleidagraph 4.1.2 for OS X Lion (10.7) now available

Software

Adobe CS5 Suite for Mac now available

Doug Willen

The Adobe CS 5 Suite for Macintosh is now available from the ITS software page for all College faculty, staff and students to use. This version, brings with it a host of new features that people have been clamoring for, here at the College, and returns us to parity between the Mac and Windows versions. Some of the more notable improvements include: Photoshop’s automatic retouching, Illustrator’s variable stroke width, Photoshop’s puppet tool, improvements to Illustrators Pathfinder panel, Photoshops Content-Aware fill and improved edge detection, and Illustrator’s dashed lines behave, and an upgrade to a more current Camera Raw for those … Continue reading Adobe CS5 Suite for Mac now available

Academic Technology, Software

New JMP License for 2011-2012

Mark Davis

For new users installing JMP To install JMP, please visit our software download page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/x31663.xml IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WINDOWS USERS: Before launching JMP, copy the JMP.PER file (available here and on our software download page) to C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\8 For existing users installing JMP Windows: If you are currently using JMP 8 and encounter a message asking for the location of the JMP.PER file, copy the JMP.PER file to C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\8 and restart the JMP program. Mac If you are currently using JMP and encounter a message asking for the location of the JMP.PER file, drag the current JMP.app file to … Continue reading New JMP License for 2011-2012

Security, Software

Critical Security Updates for Adobe Products

Nick

Adobe has released software fixes for a number of “critical” security holes in the following products: Adobe Shockwave Player Flash Media Server Adobe Flash Player Photoshop Robohelp At a minimum, many of us use the Flash and Shockwave players.  If you use any of the Adobe products listed above, at home or at work, you should update them as soon as you can.  This includes Windows, Mac and even Android platforms. For a quick glimpse of Adobe products on your computer that may need updating (along with other applications) and the easiest way to update them, you can go to … Continue reading Critical Security Updates for Adobe Products

Security, Software

Update Your Browser.. Save Your Computer!

Nick

Out of date browser software is a great way to install malware on your computer.  A simple way to help avoid computer “infections” while surfing the web is by keeping your browser up to date (note: this is one of the most common ways that Macs get infected). At the time of this writing, the following are the latest browser versions: Firefox 3.6.17 or 4.0.1 5.0.1 (you should strongly consider upgrading to 5.0.1 unless there’s a specific application you use that requires 3.6.x) Safari  5.0.5 Chrome 12.0.742.100 Opera 11.11 Updates for Internet Explorer are bundled in Windows Automatic Updates.  So, … Continue reading Update Your Browser.. Save Your Computer!

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Software, Students, Workshops and Training

R Statistical Software Training

Andrew Ruether

R is a free statistics program widely used at Swarthmore (and the rest of the world, too).  If you would like to learn more about how to use R, ITS will be hosting a series of web training sessions from the National Institute from Computational Sciences.  The sessions take place every Wednesday at 3PM from June 22 to July 6, 2011.  The topics are: June 22 – Introduction to R June 29 – R graphing with ggplot2 July 6 – Parallel computing with R Contact Andrew Ruether (aruethe2, x8254) if you would like to attend any of the sessions. Continue reading R Statistical Software Training