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List of Computer Software and Uses

Business & Office
    For Word Processing
        Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice are the best software for word processing.
    For Spreadsheet
        Microsoft Excel is the popular for spreadsheet.
    For Reports And Presentation
        Microsoft Access are used for data storage, reports and statistics while PowerPoint is best for presentation.
    For emailing
        The most common is Microsoft Outlook.
    For Web Browsing
        You need Web browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera.
    For Publishing
        The Most common is Microsoft Publisher which is used to create, customize, publish materials such
        as newsletters, brochures, flyers, catalogs, and web sites.

Operating Systems
You need operating system such as Windows 2000/XP/Vista from Microsoft,
Linux, Mac OS X and BSD or commonly called Berkeley Unix.

Programming
Visual Studio.Net is the new Release for Microsoft for any .net compatible
language. Netbeans is available for free that can be used primarily in java
application and now has support for many languages. And Eclipse has support for
almost all programming language.

Virus Protection
Anti-Virus software such as Norton AntiVirus and McAfee will protect you
your computer from viruses. Firewall application also will protect you from
internet hacker but will cause some application to prompt before you can use it.

Children's Software
Software for kids are those application that will be used as their learning guide
in solving puzzle such as “Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster”. These software are also the tool for awakening their creativity and talent in art such as
“Kid Pix Deluxe”.


Education & Reference
There are many available software for educational reference. Each was
categorized in different topics such Health, Politics, Technology and etc. Each
topic was also categorized into subtopics such as for Technology it was
subdivided into Communication, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and more.

Games
Today, lot of games available. Some of them are free but most can be obtained
with payment such as “Soldier of Fortune” and “Star Universe”. There many
games at www.free-games.com.au most of them are free.

Graphics & Multimedia
    For Viewing Movies and editing movies
         Media Player comes already with the operating system.
        But there are many available for market today such as Quicktime,
        iPods, Winamp, RealPlayer, PowerDVD, WinDVD, RealPlayer, ULead, and etc.
    For Editing Graphics
        You need Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Macromedia Freehand and Fireworks.
        These are the most popular graphics editor.

 



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