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2. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 2 Technology in Action Technology in Focus: Computing Alternatives

3. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 3 Application Software Alternatives Open source software – –Freely distributed – –Contains the source code (the actual lines of instructional code that make the program work) – –Can be distributed to others

4. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 4 Productivity Software Alternatives OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) – –Comparable to Microsoft Office Writer is like Microsoft Word Calc is like Microsoft Excel Impress is like Microsoft PowerPoint Base is a database program like Microsoft Access Draw is a graphics program Math is an equation editor

5. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 5 Productivity Software Alternatives (cont.) OpenOffice allows you to open files created in Office applications Incredible number of people continuing to develop for it all the time Writer: OpenOffice word processing application – –Similar to Microsoft Word 2003

6. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 6 Productivity Software Alternatives (cont.) Calc: OpenOffice spreadsheet application – –Similar to Microsoft Excel Impress: OpenOffice presentation application – –Similar to Microsoft PowerPoint Base: OpenOffice database application – –Similar to Microsoft Access

7. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 7 Database Software Alternatives Base – –Part of OpenOffice MySQL – –Comparable to SQL Server and Oracle Database 11g – –Many books and online tutorials are available MySQL

8. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 8 E-Mail Client Alternatives Mozilla Thunderbird – –Open source e-mail client – –Add-ons available Blog editor Calendar Calculator Multimedia tools

9. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 9 Drawing Software Alternatives OpenOffice Draw Dia – –Comparable to Microsoft Visio – –Allows you to create diagrams, graphs, and flowcharts Google SketchUp Dia

10. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 10 Web Page Authoring Software Alternatives SeaMonkey Composer – –Comparable to Adobe Dreamweaver and Expression Web – –Don’t need to know HTML to generate a Web page

11. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 11 Image Editing Software Alternatives GIMP – –Comparable to Adobe Photoshop – –Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX versions available

12. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 12 Operating System Alternatives Linux – –Open source operating system – –Available to download in various packages, called distributions – –Distrowatch.com

13. Operating System Alternatives (cont.) Linux distros – –Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 13

14. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 14 Operating System Alternatives (cont.) Mandriva Linux – –3D desktop environment – –Includes open source software – –Includes security features Fee-based options available

15. Hardware Alternatives Apple – –Mac OS X’s latest version is Snow Leopard – –Based on the UNIX OS; very reliable – –Can install Windows Vista or Windows 7 to run Windows software Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall15

16. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 16 Hardware Alternatives: Do It Yourself Advantages – –Exact configuration and features desired – –Choice of components – –Satisfaction of a job well done Disadvantages –No technical support if there is a problem –Must examine complex technical specifications –Not necessarily a money saver

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