Lec 2 - Application Software.pdf

Lecture 2 Application Software ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 1 Learning Outcomes After completing this lesson, student will be able to: Identify the types of application software. Identify Opensource software and Commercial software. ICT...

Lecture 2 Application Software ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 1 Learning Outcomes After completing this lesson, student will be able to: Identify the types of application software. Identify Opensource software and Commercial software. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 2 Which applications should install for Windows 10? Windows 10 includes almost everything for the normal PC with three different types of software There are traditional Windows programs such as WordPad, notepad. There are new-style apps such as Mail and Sticky Notes. There are browser programs that work with your log-on email address, which is your Microsoft Account. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 3 Types of Common Application There are two types of applications: – Online and offline Online Online apps are useful if you have a good internet connection. Windows 10 includes online versions of OneNote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint from Microsoft Office. Use secure browsers for that, such as Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. Offline You have to download and install to your PC. You can download the new-style of windows apps from a trusted source - the Windows Store. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 4 Install MS Office Package Microsoft Office is a set of software that includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. Sign in to download and install Office: You have to signed in with a Microsoft account Go to your account's Office page. Go to http://www.office.com/myaccount/. This will open a page with your Office purchase. Click on Install icon→ It's an orange button. Your Office setup file will begin downloading. After download finished. You can double click and install it in to your PC. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 5 Install Office 365 Download and install Microsoft office 365 Go to the Microsoft product page. Sign in to download and install Office: You have to signed in with a work or school account From the home page select Install Office (Microsoft 365). Select Office 365 apps to begin the installation. Office 365 will installed. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 6  Anti-virus Software Windows 10 is safe enough to use without any extra security software. if you keep the latest update of the settings. o These include SmartScreen filter, which checks web addresses for known malware, and a cloud-based service, which was turned on by default in the Update edition. Microsoft Defender Antivirus- known as Windows Defender, is an antivirus program that's included with Windows 10. Unlike other antivirus programs like McAfee, Microsoft Defender is free and doesn't require any additional installation Open Windows Defender: Click on the Start button In the search box. Type Defender→ and then, in the list of results Click on Windows Defender. Then you can see security settings in your PC. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 8  Anti-virus Software Microsoft Security Essentials is a real-time protection system that will protect your computer from all kinds of malware - like viruses, trojan horses and spyware - by analyzing your computer and alerting you whenever it detects unfamiliar and potentially dangerous elements. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 9 Anti-virus Software If you block Windows 10’s background security and telemetry communications with windows cloud-based service. o You should install an alternative anti-virus program that makes exactly the same checks, and uses its own cloud services for exactly the same purposes. o EX: Avast, Avira, Bitdefender and Kaspersky are good alternatives anti-virus and MalwareBytes, Adware Cleaner are good Malware Cleaner. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 10 Browser Application Software ▪ Windows 10 includes two browsers: the new Edge and the old Internet Explorer. ▪ Edge is a good browser: it’s secure, fast and light version of the browsers. There are many alternative web browsers. ▪ The main alternatives are Google Chrome and Firefox. ▪ Chrome is more secure but it use high memory, resources and battery power, ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 11 Useful Utilities There are a some free utility programs that are install on most PCs because they’re generally useful. Search Everything, Paint.net, K-Lite, notepad++, FreeFileSync, CCleaner, Revo_Uninstaller and Slim_Cleaner, Search Everything is a fast way to find and open files if you can’t remember their names or where you put them. Paint.net is a replacement for Microsoft Paint, and it’s good for editing photos and images. K-Lite codec pack is a bundle of decoders that will play most of the video and audio files. CCleaner, Revo Uninstaller and SlimCleaner include clean-up routines and utilities to uninstall programs and manage hard drives. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 12 Media Players To Install Windows Media Player: select the Start button, then select Settings > Apps > Apps & features > Manage optional features > Add a feature > Windows Media Player, and select Install. Best Media Players for Windows 10 VLC Media Player. PotPlayer. KMPlayer. Media Player Classic. GOM Media Player. DivX Player. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 13 Uncommon Application Software You can install third-party programs such as Adobe Reader, Flash, Oracle Java and any other applications not in Windows. Different Types of Application Software Graphics software. Database software. Accounting software. Programming software. Enterprise software. Information worker software. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 14 Graphic Editing Software A graphic designer creates images and manipulates them. A video editor creates a story using images, titles, logo, graphs, charts, maps etc. it’s created by graphic design software. Whether you're looking to create or edit an image for personal or professional use. There are two type of software available. – Open source and commercial software Open source software – GIMP, Krita, Inkscape Commercial software - Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, CorelDraw Graphics Suite. ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 15 PDF reader Software Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF readers allow you to read, edit or mark PDF files and block security threats. PDF readers is used to rearrange a document's pages, add digital signatures. It also lets them convert a PDF file to other formats such as Word, Excel, HTML, and JPG. Free and open source PDF- PDFSam Basic, PDFCreator, Apache OpenOffice, PDFedit ICT0X03 Essentials of ICT 16