Software Recommendations

 

Productivity Suite:

The standard productivity software in use at Pacific University is Microsoft Office.  There are several versions of Microsoft Office available but we recommend, at least, Microsoft Office 2007 Standard for Windows or Office 2008 for Mac, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 

Pacific University has an agreement with a local educational technology consortium, OETC, to offer steeply discounted software to our students.  You can purchase Microsoft Office and more from their web site, www.TechHead.org using your PUNet ID. 

 

Anitivirus:

Symantec Antivirus    (Available to currently enrolled students connected to the university network)

Spyware/Malware Removal:

MalwareBytes 

Spybot Search & Destroy 

Multimedia:

iTunes Media Player with Quicktime

VLC Media Player 

Flip4Mac - Windows Media Component for Apple Quicktime

Twins Video to iPod-Zune-PSP-3GP Converter

Utilities:

Mozilla Firefox - Internet Browser

Adobe Reader

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Shockwave Player

CCleaner - Windows system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool

FileZilla - FTP Client

Java (Mac users should download and install Java for Mac OS X through the Software Update feature on their computer.)