Useful Software

Office Suites

As a registered student at Acadia, you have access to a suite of Office 365 products. Office 365 is relevant to both PC and Apple computers. Your Office365 suite includes 5 free copies of Microsoft Office 2016 and 1TB of Cloud Storage.
http://office365.acadiau.ca

 

Utilities

PC Decrapifier Anti-Virus Free Edition (removes unwanted trial version of programs preinstalled in new PCs)
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download

CCleaner (cleans and optimises PCs)
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds

Everything (lightning fast desktop search)
http://voidtools.com/

7-Zip archive utility (e.g., zip, etc.)
http://www.7-zip.org/

 

PDF Utilities

PDF-XChange Editor (Better than Adobe Reader—supports highlighting, underlining, comments, etc.)
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads

Foxit Reader (v4.3.1.0323 is best) (Better than Adobe Reader—supports highlighting, underlining, comments, etc.)
https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/

TinyPDF printer (for 32-bit Windows only)
http://www.tinypdf.com/

 

Web Browsers

Firefox (bests add-ons)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/

Opera (Chrome WITHOUT Google’s tracking)
http://www.opera.com/

 

Android Apps

Microsoft Office

Office Lens

Google Photo Scan

 

Other

Zotero reference manager (all-in-one reference manager, citation manager, PDF capture, collaboration tool)
http://www.zotero.org/

http://libguides.acadiau.ca/content.php?pid=117774&sid=2020313