CED Help Desk 412-D Poe Hall CED_Help@ncsu.edu 515-1760 College of Education NCSU last updated 7/25/2006 |
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ITD
Macintosh Support -- ITD's
Macintosh Support page for campus Mac users
NCSU
AppleStore -- Get educational discounts purchasing Apple products
for yourself or your department
PackMUG
-- NCSU
Macintosh User's Group
Unity
Mac Workstations -- Description and
locations of Unity Lab Macs
OpenAFS for NCSU -- For mounting your Unity AFS locker Licensing Mac OS X AMP
The
UNC General Administration
has established a volume license
agreement called the Apple Maintenance Program (AMP) which
encompasses the entire UNC System.
Under AMP, departments
can lease Mac OS X for three years for $59. Major
upgrades (example, upgrading from 10.3 Panther to 10.4 Tiger) are free
during this period. At the end of the program, departments must either
remove the software from computers or for $20 per seat buy a
perpetual license for the then current version of OS X. (Or, assuming
the UNC GA renews the VLA, departments can subscribe to the new VLA
for 3 more years.) Media cost an additional $15 per set.
Faculty, staff and students wishing to purchase Mac OS X for home use should contact NCSU Bookstore Computing Sales at 515-3400 for prices. Apple's Learning Mac OS X page Apple Service & Support page Apple's OS X 10.3 Panther manual Apple's OS X 10.3 Install & Setup guide Mactopia -- Microsoft's Mac software page VersionTracker MacFixIt CyberDuck
-- FTP/SFTP client
Fugu -- SFTP/SCP client Firefox -- popular open source web browser Flip4Mac WMV -- play Windows Media files in QuickTime Player Flash Player -- for viewing Flash animations on the web Gimp -- Open source graphics editor The Mac binary
install of Gimp requires the X11 windowing
system be installed.
HimmelBar
-- application launch utilityiClip Lite Widget -- multiple clipboard Dashboard widget (requires OS X 10.4 or higher) iMovie plug-ins -- free/sample plug-ins from Virtix, Gee three, and cf/x MacJanitor -- manually run the nightly/weekly/monthly UNIX maintenance tasks Mozilla -- open source web browser Nisus Thesaurus -- adds a thesaurus available to all applications through Services Nvu -- HTML editing software XMeeting -- H.323 compatible videoconferencing client OmniDictionary -- client for network dictionary servers OpenOffice.org -- Open source office suite that can read and save to Microsoft Office files. The Mac port of
OpenOffice.org has not been "aquafied" yet, and requires the X11 windowing
system be installed.
PDF
Browser
Plug-In (for Safari & Mozilla) --
for viewing PDF files on the webSeaMonkey -- browser/mail client/HTML editor formerly known as Mozilla Shockwave Player -- for viewing Shockwave animations on the web TextWrangler2 -- text editor good for coding. By the folks who make BBEdit. Thunderbird -- open source email client Buttons! --
an extension that allows one to easily select between multiple SMTP
servers. Useful for folks who use their laptops at home and on campus.
tn3270 X
-- IBM 3270 terminal emulation for telnet sessionsMail Redirect -- an extension that allows one to redirect emails. Similar to 'delegate' in GroupWise. Signature Switch -- an extension that allows one to easily select between multiple email signatures. Word Browser Plug-In (for Safari & Mozilla) -- for viewing MS Word files on the web XL2K -- import Excel tables into Keynote presentations |
