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Library West's third floor Information Commons is primarily comprised of general computing workstations equipped with the software listed here. Specialized software and hardware needs may be met using the digital media areas available in the Fall 2006 term.

General Information Commons
110-3.2GHz Dell Optiplex GX 620 with 17" monitors; 2 available USB ports; floppy, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives; 75GB hard drive; and 1GB RAM
6 with Adobe/Macromedia web development and imaging applicaitons (available mid-Fall 2006)
6 with OCR capability (available mid-Fall 2006)
6 with HP ScanJet 4850 PhotoScanners (available mid-Fall 2006)

Production software

  • Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
    • Word
    • Excel
    • Power Point
    • Access
  • Notepad
  • Paint
  • WordPad
Multi-language support
  • Microsoft Keyboard IME
ADA / Accessibility
  • Microsoft Accessibility Accessories:
    • Accessibility Wizard
    • Magnifier
    • Narrator
    • On-screen keyboard
    • ReadPlease!
 

Web browsers

  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox

Viewing/listening utilities and plug-ins

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0
  • Windows Media Player (latest)
  • Quicktime player 6.5 (without iTunes)
  • Flash Player 8
  • Shockwave Player
  • Lizard Tech DejaVu viewer and
  • Express Viewer
  • Java 2 Runtime Environment (latest)
Other utilities
  • Command Prompt
  • FreeZip
  • Movie Maker
  • Printkey 2000 (screen capture freeware)
  • Program Compatibility Wizard
  • FileZilla (fi le transfer)
Chat reference
  • Exodus client for Jabber (XML) Instant Messaging
Printing
  • Xerox PRS software to access the networked printers
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