Chapter 5 of Computers: Understanding Technology Application Software Chapter 5 of Computers: Understanding Technology William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Importance of Operating System Most application software is platform-dependent, i.e. it will run only with a particular operating system and must be modified to work with another operating system The modification of application software to work with another operating system is a major endeavor and thus often takes many months, if it occurs at all William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Operating System (cont.) For example Office 2008 for Macintosh was released January 15, 2008 whereas Office 2007 for Windows was released January 30, 2007 Quicken, the popular personal finance software, runs on Windows only although a Macintosh beta version is available William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Operating System (cont.) For this reason, the choice of an operating system will determine the range of application software choices available Thus, many people choose Windows machines because there is more application software than with Mac William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Categories of Application Software Individual application software Workgroup, collaborative software Vertical application software – complete package of programs designed to work together to perform core business functions William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Categories of Application Software Packaged software – the manufacturer owns the copyright and licenses it to the individual, often sold to the public on a retail basis Customized software Shareware and freeware, including open-source software (owned by the developer, but programming code made available free to the general pulbic) William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Application Software for Individual Use Productivity Software Software for household use Graphics and multimedia software Communications software William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Productivity software Word processing Desktop publishing Spreadsheet Database Presentation Personal information manager Web publishing Project management William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Word Processing Creating text Editing text – spelling, grammar checker Formatting Text – font type, size, color, style, leading (space between lines), kerning (space between characters) Paragraph – Alignment, double or single-space Document – page numbers, headers, footers, page size, margin width Saving and Printing William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Word Processing Programs Microsoft Word Corel WordPerfect Lotus (now IBM) WordPro Openoffice.org Writer Google Docs William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Desktop Publishing Microsoft Publisher – part of some editions of Microsoft Office Adobe PageMaker (still sold, but not being developed further) Adobe InDesign QuarkXPress Publisher and PageMaker for home and small office market, whereas InDesign and QuarkXPress for professional market William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Spreadsheets Microsoft Excel (ITE 140) Lotus Development (now IBM) 1-2-3 Corel Quattro Pro Openoffice.org CALC Google Docs William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Database Microsoft Access (ITE 150) Lotus Development (now IBM) Approach Corel Paradox Openoffice.org Base Larger applications Oracle Microsoft SQL Server mySQL William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Presentation Microsoft PowerPoint Corel Presentations Lotus Development (now IBM) Freelance Graphics Openoffice.org Impress Google Docs William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Software Suites Word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation typically are purchased as part of an office suite of programs rather than purchased individually Suites provide a common user interface (more standardization than just using Windows) Suites offer ability to make content from one program available to another, either by pasting or object linking and embedding (OLE) – embedded file can be changed but changes aren’t reflected in original, whereas with linking they are William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Personal Information Manager Microsoft Outlook and Palm Desktop Helps organize contact information, appointments, tasks, and notes William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Web Publishing Adobe Dreamweaver (ITE 170, ITD 210) Microsoft Expression Web (successor to FrontPage) William Pegram - September 16, 2009

William Pegram - September 16, 2009 Project Management Project management software is used to manage project so that resources are available when needed Microsoft Project William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Software for Household Use Distinction: Productivity software can be used for anything whereas the following are for particular uses Personal finance – Intuit Quicken, Microsoft Money Tax preparation – Intuit TurboTax, H&R Block TaxCut Legal software – Intuit WillMaker Plus Games and entertainment Educational and Reference Software – Encylopedias, dictionaries, and tutorials Accounting – Peachtree (ACC 215), Intuit QuickBooks William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Graphics and Multimedia Software Painting - Paint Drawing – CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia (now Adobe) Freehand Image-editing (ITD 112) – Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks (ITE 170), Adobe Photoshop Elements Animation - Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash (ITE 170) Video and Audio Editing – Adobe Premiere Computer-aided design (CAD) William Pegram - September 16, 2009

Communications Software Email Web browsers Instant messaging Groupware or collaboration software – e.g. company wikis (see Vauhini Vara, “Wikis at Work”, Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2007 , p. R11), Google Docs Video conferencing software William Pegram - September 16, 2009