Windows PCs and Mac computers are set up for use in the Learning Commons. There are 10 Windows PCs and 8 Mac computers on level 1 (CPD-1). They are network connected with the commonly used software installed.
Windows PCs in the Learning Commons
Hardware configuration:
| Lenovo P360 Tower Workstation | |
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Software configuration:
| Operating system: English Windows 11 | |
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| Software installed | Functions |
| 7-Zip file Manager (Version 26, 64-bit) | for file compression and decompression |
| Adobe Acrobat (Ver 2025.001.21288) | for reading PDF (portable document format) files |
| Adobe Aero Beta (Ver 0.18.4 (#243) | is used to create and view augmented reality (AR) experiences from design/3D content |
| Adobe Creative Cloud (6.9.0.618.1) | Adobe Creative Cloud is a subscription service that gives you access to Adobe’s creative apps and related services for making and managing digital content. |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 | is a professional-grade video editing software used for filmmaking, social media content creation, and commercial production. |
| Adobe illustrator 2026 | is a professional design tool used to create logos, icons, illustrations, posters, packaging, and UI designs—that stay sharp at any size. It also includes AI tools to speed up drawing and design work. |
| Adobe After Effect 2026 | is used to create motion graphics, animations, visual effects (VFX), animated logos, and video titles for videos, films, social media , and websites. |
| Adobe Photoshop 2026 | is used for photo editing, retouching, graphic design, digital painting, and creating social media/posters with AI-powered tools. |
| Adobe Bridge 2026 | is used to organize, preview, sort, and manage all your design, photo, and video files in one place. |
| Adobe InCopy 2026 | It lets writers and editors edit text while designers work on the layout in InDesign, without messing up each other’s work. |
| Adobe Animate 2024 | is software used to create 2D animations and interactive content. |
| Adobe Premiere Rush | is a lightweight, all-in-one video editing app designed for speed and social media. It is the simpler version of Premiere Pro, made for people who want to edit and post videos quickly using a smartphone. |
| Adobe Audition 2026 | is a professional audio workstation used to record, edit, and cleanup sound. |
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller | is a tool that converts PostScript files into PDFs. |
| Adobe Lightroom Classic | is a professional photo organizer and editor designed for photographers who take a lot of pictures. |
| Adobe InDesign 2026 | is professional software used for page layout and design. |
| Adobe Dreamweaver 2021 | is a tool used to build and design websites. |
| Adobe Character Animator 2026 | is a tool that uses your webcam and microphone to turn your movements into a live 2D animation. |
| Adobe Media Encoder 2026 | is a “background” app used to process and convert video files. |
| Adobe XD | is a professional design tool used to create the look and feel of websites and mobile apps. |
| Apabi Reader 4.5 (Ver 4.5.2.1785) | is an application used to open, read, and search digital e-books/document files—especially documents distributed in Apabi/PDF-like e-book formats. |
| ArcGis Pro (Ver 3.2.49743) | is a desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) software, It’s used to map, analyze, and create geographic/spatial data |
| AUTODESK 123D CATCH (Ver 3.0.0.54) | was used to create 3D models from photos using photogrammetry. |
| CDBurnerXP (Ver 4.5.8.7128) | is a free Windows software used to burn (write) data to CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs. |
| Code::Blocks (Ver 17.12) | is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming, mainly for C, C++, and (with plugins) other languages. |
| Core FTP LE (Ver 2.2 build 1960) | is a Windows FTP/SFTP client—mainly used to upload and download files between your computer and a server. |
| Endnote (Ver 2025.3.1 (build 19926) | is a reference management software used to help you collect, organize, and cite sources for research writing. |
| FireFox | a web browser |
| Google Chrome | a web browser |
| HKU Web Mail | is the web-based email system for The University of Hong Kong (HKU). |
| IME (Japanese, Korean, Trad chinese , Simp chinese) | It’s the tool that lets you type languages that don’t map 1-to-1 with English letters on a keyboard—especially things like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. |
| Irfan View | is a lightweight image viewer for Windows. |
| Jamovi 2.7.16 | is a free, user-friendly statistical software used for analyzing data. |
| JASP (0.95.4.0) | is a free statistical analysis software (like jamovi), designed to be easy to use. |
| MATLAB | is a programming environment and language mainly used for numerical computing, engineering, and data analysis. |
| Microsoft Access 2021 (Office 2012) | is a relational database management system from Microsoft. |
| Microsoft Excel 2024 (Office 2024) | It allows users to organize, analyze, and visualize data in tabular form |
| Microsoft Outlook 2024 (Office 2024) | primarily used for sending, receiving, and organizing emails. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint 2024 (Office 2024) | Microsoft PowerPoint is a software application used to create, edit, and present slide-based presentations. |
| Microsoft Publisher 2021 (Office 2021) | It is designed to create professional-quality publications such as brochures, flyers, newsletters, posters, greeting cards, and other marketing or promotional materials. |
| Microsoft Teams | It is designed to facilitate teamwork by providing features such as instant messaging, video and audio calls, file sharing. |
| Microsoft Word 2024 (Office 2024) | It is widely used for creating, editing, formatting, and sharing text documents such as reports, letters, resumes, and more. |
| Mozilla Firefox | a web browser |
| NAG Fortran Compiler | It is designed for scientific and engineering applications that require reliable and efficient numerical computation. |
| Notepad++ (Ver 8.8.9 (64-bit)) | is a free, open-source text and source code editor for Windows. It is widely used by programmers and developers for editing code in various programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. |
| Octave UI (Ver 10.3.0) | ironment for Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual J++ and Visual InterDev |
| Onyx (Ver 1.0-1026) | Onyx for data recovery, digital asset management. |
| Pageant (version 0.83) | an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY,PSCP,PSFTP and Plink |
| PuTTY (Ver 0.83) | is a free, open-source terminal emulator and network file transfer application |
| Python (Ver. 3.7.3) | a qualitative research program |
| QSR Nvivo (Ver 12.6) | a software environment for statistical computing and graphics |
| R (Ver 4.5.3 (x64)) | a set of integrated tools designed to help using R in a more productive way. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management |
| Rstudio (Ver 2025.09.2 (build 764) | is an integrated development environment (IDE) specifically designed for programming in R, a language widely used for statistical computing and data analysis |
| SAS (Ver 8.3 Update 5 (8.3.5 193) (64-bit) ) | is widely used for advanced analytics, data management, and business intelligence. |
| Scilab (Ver 2024.1.0) | is an open-source numerical computation software similar to MATLAB, used for engineering, scientific, and mathematical calculations. |
| SmartDraw 2020 | to draw any type of chart, diagram |
| Sophos X | a virus scanning program |
| Spyder (version 6.1.1) | a scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts |
| TypeDuck (version 1.1.1) | a Cantonese input keyboard |
| VLC player (version 3.0.21) | a software player to play all region codes of DVD/VCD/CD |
| Zoom Workplace | a software for video conferencing |
| XRCC | is a software tool used to build Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) experiences without needing to write any code. |
Hardware configuration:
| iMac | |
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Software configuration:
| Operating system: OS X Version 10.14 | |
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| Software installed | Functions |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro | For publishing documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) |
| Adobe Acrobat Cloud | Adobe Creative Cloud is a subscription service that gives you access to Adobe’s creative apps and related services for making and managing digital content. |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 | is a professional-grade video editing software used for filmmaking, social media content creation, and commercial production. |
| Adobe After Effect 2026 | is used to create motion graphics, animations, visual effects (VFX), animated logos, and video titles for videos, films, social media , and websites. |
| Adobe Photoshop 2026 | is used for photo editing, retouching, graphic design, digital painting, and creating social media/posters with AI-powered tools. |
| Adobe Bridge 2026 | is used to organize, preview, sort, and manage all your design, photo, and video files in one place. |
| Adobe InCopy 2026 | It lets writers and editors edit text while designers work on the layout in InDesign, without messing up each other’s work. |
| Adobe Animate 2024 | is software used to create 2D animations and interactive content. |
| Adobe Premiere Rush | is a lightweight, all-in-one video editing app designed for speed and social media. It is the simpler version of Premiere Pro, made for people who want to edit and post videos quickly using a smartphone. |
| Adobe Audition 2026 | is a professional audio workstation used to record, edit, and cleanup sound. |
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller | is a tool that converts PostScript files into PDFs. |
| Adobe Lightroom Classic | is a professional photo organizer and editor designed for photographers who take a lot of pictures. |
| Adobe InDesign 2026 | is professional software used for page layout and design. |
| Adobe Dreamweaver 2021 | is a tool used to build and design websites. |
| Adobe Character Animator 2026 | is a tool that uses your webcam and microphone to turn your movements into a live 2D animation. |
| Adobe Media Encoder 2026 | is a “background” app used to process and convert video files. |
| Adobe XD | is a professional design tool used to create the look and feel of websites and mobile apps. |
| Chrome | a web browser |
| Firefox | a web browser |
| iMovie | a movie maker program |
| iPhoto | a photo edit program |
| iTunes | for music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books |
| Microsoft Excel | a spreadsheet program |
| Microsoft Outlook | a email reading program |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | a presentation program |
| Microsoft Word | a word processing program |
| PhotoBooth | for making snapshots and short videos |
| QuickTime Player | for playing video |
| Safari | a web browser |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | a anti-virus program |
| Xcode | is the official software made by Apple for creating apps. |
Mac computers in the Learning Commons
Hardware configuration:
| iMac | |
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Software configuration:
| Operating system: OS X Version 10.14 | |
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| Software installed | Functions |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro | For publishing documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) |
| Adobe Photoshop 2026 | Edit, composite, and create beautiful images, graphics, and art on desktop and iPad. |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 | Industry-standard pro video and film editing. |
| Adobe Illustrator 2026 | Create beautiful vetor art and illustrations on desktop and iPad. |
| Adobe Stock 2026 | Choose from millions of high-quality images, graphics, videos ,and more |
| Adobe Express 2026 | Quickly and easily make standout social media content, flyers, logos, banners and more fo rfree with thousands of beautiful ltemplates. |
| Adobe After effects 2026 | Cinematic visual effects and motion graphics. |
| Lightroom | Edit, organize, store, and share photos from anywhere |
| Adobe InDesign 2026 | for print publications, interactive PDF documents, digital magazines, and EPUBs |
| Adobe Media Encoder 2026 | a software automates the process of creating multiple encoded versions of source files |
| Adobe Photoshop 2026 | to enhance and manipulate photos and create original digital artwork |
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2026 | to edit, manipulate and export video |
| Chrome | a web browser |
| DFXControl | all data and setting will be reborn as default after restart |
| DPS App Builder | to build a custom viewer app and submit to Apple Store and Google Play Store |
| Firefox | a web browser |
| GarageBand | for making music |
| iMovie | a movie maker program |
| iPhoto | a photo edit program |
| iTunes | for music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books |
| Microsoft Document Connection | a SkyDrive and SharePoint connection tool |
| Microsoft Excel | a spreadsheet program |
| Microsoft Outlook | a email reading program |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | a presentation program |
| Microsoft Word | a word processing program |
| QuickTime Player | for playing video |
| Safari | a web browser |
| Sophos Anti-Virus | a anti-virus program |
| The Unarchiver | a software to unarchive archive files, such as zip, rar and 7-zip |