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Step 5 - Finalise your Setup

Congratulations you should now have an account, basic settings, and the basic software needed during your studies. Bellow is a list of software which you may find helpful if you do not already have. For further assistance regarding any of these step please contact the service desk.

The student guide contains a more comprehensive information related to the completed steps, the guide is in PDF form and can be downloaded by selecting the link provided, Student-Guide.


IT-Service hopes you enjoy your time here at UNE.

 

Additional Software
Description
Windows XP

MAC
OS X

office
Students can purchase Office 2003 Professional Enterprise and Office 2004 Standard from the IT Service Desk for $139.00 each. This Cost is reduced from the standard price as UNE - Services is Authorized reseller.
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For other student edition of microsoft software please see the link provided. This software has also been reduced for academic purposes.
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Get Firefox

Fire Fox is a free, fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, a tab-browsing, integrated Google searching.

Get Thunderbird

Thunder Bird is a free multi-platform mail client for most operating systems including Windows, Linux and Macintosh. It is a robust and easy to use client, similar to competing products like Outlook Express, but with some major advantages such as junk mail classification.

 Use OpenOffice.org

Open Office is free, open-source product. The product is a multi-platform office suite which includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites.

Adobe

Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view, navigate, browse, and print portable document format (PDF) files that have been created by Adobe Acrobat.

CutePDF Writer

(Freeware) - Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal and commercial use.

Built_in Feature
Built-In Feature

PowerPoint Viewer 2003
XP - Mac

Lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint.
Ad-Aware SE is a powerful anti-spyware software that protects the personal privacy of computer users as they surf the Internet. the software is free and is designed to removes cookies and other undesirable content from your internet files.
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