Software

Technology Services provides certain software required for classroom use and assignments.

We can assist with installation and setup. Please contact us for assistance and with any questions you have. We also recommend contacting us before purchasing software on your own.

Licensed software and free for personal use software are listed below.

Licensed Software

Some of the software used on campus includes:

Microsoft Office* - Available on computers on the first floor of the Myrin Library with full installation on personal devices available free of charge via web install. Instructions for installation of MS-Office.

*Microsoft Office is provided free of charge as part of our campus agreement. So, regardless of the computer you purchase, or where you purchase, you do not need to purchase this additional software resulting in significant cost savings.

Office 365 Information -

Office 365 provides access to a variety of Microsoft applications in addition to the standard Microsoft Office products.

Most of the Office 365 applications can be downloaded to your device or accessed online.

Available with your Ursinus login and password.

Adobe Creative Cloud - Available on Mac computers in Ritter Mac Classroom, and on Mac Computers on the first floor of Myrin Library.

Maple - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and available for installation on personal computers used on campus.

Mathematica (Click for more info) - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and available for install on personal computers of Ursinus Students, Faculty and Staff.

SAS - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and for install on personal computers of Ursinus Students, Faculty and Staff. (Windows only, will not work on Macintosh operating system).

SPSS - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and on Ursinus owned computers.

ArcGis - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and on Ursinus owned computers. (Windows only, will not work on Macintosh operating system).

QGis - Available on Dell computers on first floor of the Myrin Library and on Ursinus owned computers.

Zoom - Video Conferencing and online meetings.

7-Zip

Decompression program for extracting ZIP files as well as many other formats.

Supported formats:

Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

Audacity

Free and powerful audio editing software.

Chrome

Free web-browser that is similar in features to Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

Filezilla

An open-source (free) file transfer application that supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connections.

GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program is an open source freeware program that has many of the features that are available in the commercial Adobe Photoshop application.

Inkscape

A feature-packed editor that’s a possible substitute for Illustrator.

Infrarecorder

Open source (free) software used to write to CDs and DVDs.

IrfanView

An excellent freeware image viewing program.

Firefox

Free open-source web-browser that is similar in features to Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.

LibreOffice

An open-source (free) office suite that offers comparable features to and file compatibility with Microsoft Office. This suite includes Writer (like Word), Calc (like Excel), Impress (like PowerPoint), and Base (like Access). In addition to being free the installer for this suite is also about a third the size of Microsoft Office.

MiKTeX

An open-source (free) command-line suite for producing TeX documents. And use TeXnicCenter to make it easier to produce the documents.

Notepad++

An open-source and free text editor that provides more flexibility and performance than standard text editors such as Notepad or Wordpad.

OBS - Open Broadcaster Software

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

PDFForge

An open-source and free PDF creation tool. Previously known as PDFCreator.

An open-source (free) statistical computation and graphical display programming environment that provides similar functionality to SAS, Matlab, SPSS, Minitab, Stata, etc.

R Studio

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

SageMath

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.
Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

TeXnicCenter

An open-source (free) alternative to WinEdt for graphically editing TeX documents. Download this and MiKTeX for producing TeX documents.

Thunderbird

An open-source (free) email client that is a good alternative to Microsoft Outlook.

Technology Support

Software

Licensed software and free for personal use software are listed below.

Licensed Software

Office 365 Information -

Free for Personal Use Software