Software Review: Meetup

Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/apps/) is an online platform designed to get people to share similar interests and to enjoy the social activities with other members offline. Users have access to a wide range of Meetup events that they may wish to participate in according to their interests, date and time availability, and location. Although Meetup is developed for general users, language learners can use the application to construct opportunities to communicate with the native speakers while enjoying their shared interests together. Access to such opportunities is not always easy for learners either studying the target language in their home country or studying the target language in a host country (e.g., Allen, 2010; Kim, 2011). As such, Meetup allows learners to identify events where they can meet native speakers who live near to their location and to interact with them using the target language in naturally-occurring settings

Software Review: TinyTask

Tammy Ivins, Transfer Student Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington reviews the software, TinyTask

Software review: Atlas *018

Atlas*015 (AGIS) from Strategic Mapping Inc., is more than a sophisticated graphical database or mapping program for the personal computer. It is software that performs complex spatial analyses of data within a geographical framework. A geographic information system (CIS), gives the user the ability to associate virtually any event or transaction with a geographic location. From there sophisticated analyses of your data can be conducted. GISs go far beyond the more common thematic mapping programs

Software review: Novell DOS 7

The claims that DOS is dead, like those regarding the health of COBOL, are still premature but gaining credence. Still, criticisms of DOS remain and are warranted

Software review: OS/2 2.0

Since I don\u27t write advertising copy, what you read here may be different from what the few others who do write about IBM\u27s new operating system OS/2 have had to say. You may have noticed that more ink has been devoted to an operating system, IH leave it unnamed, that has yet to be retailed than to OS/2 which has been on the desk for more than a year

Digital Photograph Album Software Review

Digital photography\u27s relatively low cost and easy use encourages educators to build Extension image collections, but image retrieval can become difficult as collections grow. Picasa 2, Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0, Corel Photo Album 6, and ACDSee 8 Photo Manager are four popular photo cataloging software products that function to import, view, sort, assign keywords to, and search for image files. This review synopsizes their functionality and efficiency. ACDSee seems to offer more tools than the other products, although Picasa 2 may be sufficient for smaller image collections

Science Notes - Computer Software Review Available

Zero Population Growth (ZPG) has announced the availability of a free fact sheet on computer software for population education. The fact sheet contains reviews regarding a variety of programs available for Apple, IBM, Commodore, TRS-80 and Tandy (Radio Shack) computers