Software

Basic software for Macs:

• • Google Chrome: Steve' favorite web browser (http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac)

  • Quicksilver: allows one to launch or switch programs quickly by typing a key sequence (http://www.blacktree.com/)

  • Set up "Spaces" to give yourself some more desktop space (Apple Menu->System Preferences, "Expose & Spaces")

  • Graphic Converter from Lemkesoft: For editing/converting image files (http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/188/graphicconverter.html)

  • We have a multi-user license for GraphicConverter 8: Username "Van Hooser lab / Brandeis University", serial number GCV7-USUAFZ-WWZ. We have a multi-user license for GraphicConverter 9: Username "Van Hooser lab / Brandeis University", activation code GCV9-PUFZXX-YRR.

  • Combine PDF: A shareware program that allows you to merge PDF files into 1 w/out paying for Acrobat: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml

Basic software for PCs:

• • (PC users, please add here)

VHLabTools

• • This is our lab development tools site: https://sites.google.com/site/vhlabtools/

LabView

• • LabView Full development serial number: M74X09433

  • LabView Vision Development Kit serial number: M74X20309

  • LabView Image Acquisition Software (March 2010): M74X22278

Matlab

• • Brandeis has a site license for Matlab. You can install it yourself with these instructions: https://kb.brandeis.edu/display/SCI/Obtaining+Matlab. During the installation process, you'll be asked which toolboxes you want to install. Check out the list at http://code.vhlab.org to see all the toolboxes you'll need for VHLab work. After you install Matlab, you might go to http://code.vhlab.org and install our Matlab libraries!

Adobe Illustrator

• • You can install Adobe Illustrator on a machine that you are going to use for lab work.

  • Go to https://licensing.adobe.com/ to log in w/ vanhooser@brandeis.edu and KZ548c5

  • Under the Licenses menu, choose downloads.

  • Under the End User/Deploy-to ID menu, select an order. Oddly, these are lists of orders we have placed rather than products. You will see a list of products for each order that you select. Choose one that has Adobe Illustrator for your platform (PC or Mac).

  • Download the software.

  • While the software is downloading, go back under the Licenses menu and choose Retrieve Serial Numbers.

  • Again, select an order, and find one that contains the software for your platform. It will include a long license string. Use that serial number string when installing the software.

  • Install the software, and provide the serial number. Use "Van Hooser lab" as the user, Brandeis University as the company.

Thunderbird (email client)

• • Needs a special configuration to work with your brandeis.edu account. Open Thunderbird, then enter the following:

  • incoming: server is imap.gmail.com; switch to SSL/TLS connection security, then fill in - port 993; user name is yourunetid@brandeis.edu (Yes, the whole thing); authentication is normal password

  • outgoing: server is smtp.gmail.com; port 465 - all else the same as incoming server.

  • If you want the Brandeis Directory to talk to Thunderbird so that your address line will volunteer an email address when you start typing someone's name, click on the account@brandeis.edu, then go to settings, then:

  • click Composition& Addressing on the sidebar, then Use different LDAP server. Click Edit Directories. Click Add. Name is Brandeis Directory; hostname is ldap.unet.brandeis.edu; Base DN type exactly o=Brandeis University and be sure you have only the one space between Brandeis and University; port 389. Click OK, then Add Brandeis Directory, then click OK. Finally, select Brandeis Directory under use a different LDAP server.