Software Resources

Below is a list of software that you may find useful for this course, and for Web work in general.

It was originally prepared for a course held at the Center last summer, although it's been updated several times since then. It does, however, emphasize programs that exist on at least some of the computers at the Geometry Center. This is especially true of the Unix tools. As for the Macintosh and PC software, the latter list is longer mostly because the Center recently purchased some new machines, and some of the staff went looking for what might be available. If any of you have a good list of Macintosh tools, I'd be glad to incorporate that for everyone's use.

We've tried to give links with sources, however, so that you can use this list to find out more about the software, particularly how to get each item. (I have not re-checked all these links recently, so please let me know if you encounter any problems with any of them.)

Participants in this course are encouraged to present their suggestions for additions, changes, and deletions to all the sections of this list. I'd really like to end the course with a list that's been customized for our purposes and interests.

Multi-Platform


Unix


Macintosh

There is a large archive of Macintosh freeware and shareware at the University of Texas at URL http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/mac/main.html. Many of the programs listed below are from this archive.


PC

An excellent source of information about programs available for PCs is the Tucows Archive (http://www.tucows.com). "Tucows" stands for "The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software"; this site contains a huge database of information on programs for Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT. For each program, they give a short description and evaluation, and links to more information. Most things in the archive are either shareware or freeware.

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