1. Software for Home, Personal, and Educational Use
Enables users to balance checkbooks, pay bills, track personal income and expenses, etc.
Provides standard contracts and documents associated with buying, selling, and renting properties; marriage and divorce, etc.
Guide individuals, families, or small business through process of filing federal taxes.
Personal finance software
Legal software
Tax preparation software
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2. Software for Home, Personal, and Educational Use
Collection of clip art and photos.
enables users to view maps, determine route directions, and locate points of interests.
Assist with design, remodeling, or improvements of a home, deck, or landscape.
Clip art/image gallery
Travel and mapping software
Home design/landscaping software
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3. Software for Home, Personal, and Educational Use
Provides valuable and thorough information for all individuals; popular reference software include encyclopedias, dictionaries, and health/medical guides.
Enables users to teach a particular skill (i.e. learning how to type, learning how to cook, etc.)
Enables users play games online, watch movies, listen to music, etc.
Reference software
Educational software
Entertainment software
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Web Applications
A Web application is a Web site that allows users to access and interact with software from any computer or device that is connected to the Internet
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5. Application Software for Communications
Web Browser
Instant Messaging
Chat Room
Text, Picture, Video Messaging
RSS Aggregator
Blogging
Newsgroup/Message Board
FTP
Video Conferencing
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6. Learning Tools for Application Software
Distance learning (DL) is the delivery of education at one location while the learning takes place at other locations
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7. Discovering Computers 2010: Living in a Digital World Chapter 3
Real-life Situations
As a teacher’s assistant at a local high school, you keep track of students’ grades in Microsoft Excel. At semester’s end, you use a formula to calculate the final letter grade for each student. The final letter grades, however, do not calculate properly. What might be causing the error? Possibilities include:
Double-check your formula and cell references.
Make sure that Excel is configured to automatically update formula results when you modify values in the worksheet.
You are using photo editing software to remove red eye from a photo. After successfully removing the red eye, you save the file and notice that the size of the file nearly has doubled. What might be causing this? Possibilities include:
Editing a photo sometimes and increase the file size.
If you save the photo in a different file format, it may result in an increased file size.
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Real-life Situations
A local charity in which you are active has asked you to design a one-page brochure. Each time you print the brochure, it prints the first page correctly, but a blank second page also comes out. What steps will you take to eliminate the blank second page? Possibilities include:
In the Print dialog box, configure the print options to only print the first page.
Navigate to the end of the brochure and make sure that there is no empty space.
You are attempting for the first time to transfer video from your video recorder directly to your computer. When you save the file on your computer and play it back, the video quality is acceptable, but there is no audio. What is the first step you will take to troubleshoot this problem? Possibilities include:
Make sure that your speakers are turned on and that the volume is at an acceptable level.
Check speaker connections to your computer.
Check program settings and make sure that it is configured to transfer video and audio.
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9. Summary How to start and interact with application software
Overview of a variety of business software, graphics and multimedia software, and home/personal/educational software
Web applications and application software for communications
Learning tools for application software and Web-based training
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