Application Software ..

Application Software

•To make business activities more efficient
•To assist with graphics and multimedia projects
•To support home, personal, and educational tasks
•To facilitate communications

Type of software

o  Open source software

   -created by unpaid volunteers, begin to gain wide acceptance among computer users.

    -Freely

o  Proprietary software

   -privately owned and limited to a specific vendor or computer model.

    -license / paid

WEB BROWSER

   *allows users to access and interact with software from     any computer or device that is connected to the Internet

*View Web pages or access programs  example:

§  Google chrome

§  Firefox opera

  WORD PROCESSING

    *allows users to create and      manipulate documents example:

               § Microsoft Office Word  

               § OpenOffice.org Writer

SPREADSHEET

  *allows users to organize data in rows and columns and perform calculations

   *Usage to create personal profiles, budget summaries, income statements or calculate students marks.Examples :-

§ Microsoft Office Excel

              § OpenOffice.org Calc

         PRESENTATION

  *allows users to create visual aids for presentations to communicate ideas, messages, and other information to a group  

   *Usage to create a presentation for teaching, marketing   or tourist information. Examples :-

§ Microsoft  Office PowerPoint

§ OpenOffice.org Impress 

DATABASE

 *is a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data

   –Database software allows users to create,     access, and manage a database

   –Usage to create student database, employees database or book database. Examples :

§ Microsoft Office Access

                          § OpenOffice.org Base

That's all :)