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University IT Supported Desktop Software - Macintosh

University IT recommends a variety of standard software packages, identified further down the page. Use of these operating systems and applications will ensure you the most interoperability, fewer problems, and better support. The University and Hospital comprise a diverse environment with many needs specific to the individual department. Your Computer Administrator or IT department should be consulted before purchasing any hardware or software.

Some software products have requirements that are not met by your environment or computer system. In addition, some products may conflict with others when run on the same workstation. Your Computer Administrator or IT department should be consulted before purchasing any hardware or software.

Support

    The University provides a Support Staff who are familiar with the installation, varying levels of use and troubleshooting of these packages. In many cases they have attended training sessions themselves in order to provide a quality service. Beyond the software identified below, a "best effort" assistance effort will be made. Please understand that if we are not familiar and trained in a particular software application, the time spent on problem resolution may be limited, and issues may take longer to resolve, or not be able to be resolved at all. We can not fully support products that are deemed obsolete by the original manufacturer or are used beyond their original purpose and design.


Macintosh Software Recommendations

PC Software Recommendations

Computer Hardware Recommendations

Operating Systems

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

MAC OS 10.4.x (Tiger)

X

IT Computer Sales

Apple

 

Internet Browser

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Safari

X

Included with Mac OS X

Apple

Safari v1 does not support Windows Authentication and thus cannot be used to access Sharepoint sites. You must use Safari v2 or above

Firefox

 

Freeware

Mozilla

 

Note: Internet Explorer for Mac is no longer available for download

E-mail Clients

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Eudora

 

Freeware

Qualcomm

POP3 / IMAP client

AppleMail

X

Included with Mac OS X

Apple

POP3 / IMAP client

Entourage 2004

 

Included with Office 2004 for Macintosh

Microsoft

Exchange 2003 supported

Antivirus Clients

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Norton Antivirus

 

IT Computer Sales

Symantec

Mac OS 10.3.9 or later

Sophos Anti-Virus

X

UR Information Security

Sophos

 

Secure FTP Client

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Cyberduck

X

Cyberduck

 

Mac OS 10.3.9 or later

Office Suites

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Microsoft Office 2004

X

IT Computer Sales

Microsoft

 

Terminal Client

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Terminal App

 

Included with Mac OS X

 

 

TN3270

X

Brown University

 

Access to the University mainframe (No FTP)

WebConnect

X

UR Mainframe

 

Used to access the University mainframe (No FTP)

VPN Client

Product
Recommended
Obtained Through
Vendor Links
Notes

Cisco VPN

X

University IT - VPN

 

Access to the University network from off campus (NetID required to download)

 

 

 

       

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