The Arch --NYU library electronic resources listed by subject. It includes electronic journals, reference works, newspapers, multimedia files, websites, and more.
Safari Books Online -- E-library for almost any computer related questions. This database should work on any operating system without special plugins. (Requires NYU proxy)
You should be able to access these databases even off campus from library.nyu.edu. If you are having trouble, follow instructions
here for vpn setting or
here for proxy setting.
Free Software
Open Office - Open Office should open documents produced by most of the word processing softwares.
For other NYU provided softwares such as Symantec Antivirus and WinZip, please visit https://www.nyu.edu/its/software/
or click on "Ask ITS" on the top right corner after logging on to home.nyu.edu.
ITS also has SSH and SFTP softwares.