Four Categories Of Application Software

FOUR CATEGORIES OF APPLICATION SOFTWAREBY: Derrick McLeod

Here is an example of business software:www.quickbooks.com Quickbooks

BUSINESS

One of many examples for Graphics and or Multimedia software would have to be:

http://corel.com Corel Graphics Suite

GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA

An example of home, personal, and educational software would have to be the Adobe CS5 Suite:

www.adobe.com/CreativeSuite

HOME/PERSONAL/EDUCATION

A website used by many to communicate worldwide could be best represented by:

http://www.facebook.com Facebook

COMMUNICATIONS

… Application Software is available in a

variety of forms...

Packaged Software Microsoft Office is an example of

Packaged Software○ http://www.office.microsoft.com

Custom Software A good example website where Custom

Software can be developed could be the Custom Software Lab:

○ http://www.customsoftwarelab.com

Or even MyStorage can be considered Custom Software.

Web Application A good example of a web application

happens to be..○ http://www.edu.glogster.com GLOGSTER :D

Open Source Software A spiffy type of Open Source Software

would have to be, in my opinion..○ www.google.com/chrome/ Google Chrome

Shareware WinRar is a great example of Shareware

Software:○ www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Freeware Freeware can be expressed in one way

by Mozilla Firefox○ www.mozilla.com

Public-domain software The World Wide Web is a huge example

of Public Domain Software.

System Software System Software is pretty nifty software.

It works kind of like a middle man control center for a computer. Operating Systems are great examples of this. Like the Microsoft Windows chain.

○ http://Windows.microsoft.com/

Utility Programs WinZIP…!

○ www.winzip.com/

Business Software The following are examples of Business

Software..

WORD PROCESSING• A great program for the maximum word processing experience is Microsoft Word.

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/

SPREADSHEET SOFTWARE• A good example of software with spreadsheets for organizing, would have to be Microsoft

Excel.

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/

DATABASE SOFTWARE• Some database software could be exemplified by: FileMaker

• www.filemaker.com

PRESENTATION• PowerPoint is some amazing software to create visual aids or presentations.

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/

NOTE TAKING• A very simple yet effective note taking application is..: TomBoy

• http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/?pagewanted=all

PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGER (PIM)• www.essentialpim.com/ is a great place to go and get your personal information

managed!

BUSINESS SOFTWARE FOR PHONES• www.nbxsoftware.com/

BUSINESS SOFTWARE SUITE• Netsuite is a great integrated web based business software suite..:

• http://www.netsuite.com/

PROJECT MANAGEMENT• A great website to help you get started with project management software would be:

• http://quickbase.intuit.com Quickbase

ACCOUNTING• http://www.peachtree.com/ Easy to follow and very accurate accounting services, right

at your fingertips . Peachtree

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT• http://www.knowledgetree.com/ KnowledgeTree is a great Example of a type of Document

Management software.

ENTERPRISE COMPUTING• Heres an example from Sun Microsystems, with the link leading to a page containing

different types of software/applications for computing within an enterprise.

• http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Enterprise%20Computing&tab=3

So… Uhhh… Yeah This may not be a high maintenance

presentation, but it’s just to show all the amazing programs of so many different types that are out there at the tip of our grasp. It’s just incredible. I hope you enjoyed my presentation, and I hope your interested in the links that I have shared.

Thanks,Derrick

McLeod(: