Information Technology

Standard Applications, Hardware, and Access

Standard Software

All Windows computer labs have the following software applications installed:

  • Adobe CS 5.5 (includes Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Audacity
  • Chemdraw
  • FileZilla (FTP client)
  • Internet Explorer 9 (Diigo toolbar & Shockwave)
  • K-Lite Codec
  • Mathematica
  • Microsoft Office 2010 (Access, Excel (with MegaStat and Solver), OneNote, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word)
  • Mozilla Firefox (Delicious toolbar, Zotero)
  • Notepad ++
  • Papercut
  • Putty - SSH Client
  • Quicktime
  • Silverlight plug-in
  • SPSS
  • VLC
  • Windows Media Player
  • Windows Movie Maker
  • Write-n-Cite

All Mac computer labs have the following applications installed:

  • Adobe CS 5.5 Design Premium (includes Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Device Central, Dreamweaver, Drive, Extension Manager, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Media Encoder, Media Player, Photoshop)
  • Audacity
  • DivX Player
  • Firefox
  • Flip4Mac
  • Flv Crunch
  • Google Earth
  • Google SketchUp
  • iChat
  • iLife 2011 (GarageBand, iDVD, iMovie, iWeb)
  • iPhoto
  • iTunes
  • MPEG StreamClip
  • Mathematica
  • Microsoft Office 2011 (Excel (with MegaStat), PowerPoint, Word)
  • PCClient
  • QuarkXPress
  • QuickTime Player
  • Safari
  • VLC

Additional applications may be available. Please refer to the detailed software list for each lab for details.

Standard Hardware

All computers have CD-RW drives for burning CDs. They also have USB ports (typically on the front or side) for USB drives.

Network Access

All computers require a Butler username and password for login. Once logged in, your BUfiles will be connected as drive H:\ (Windows) or on your desktop (Mac).

On Windows computers, drive G:\ is connected to the "Courses" directory, where some faculty store course-related material for your use.