~BASIC APPLICATION SOFTWARE AND SPECIALIZED APPLICATION SOFTWARE~

Before Chinese New Year holiday, two groups had present these topics.

The first one is Chapter 3:BASIC APPLICATION SOFTWARE by THE DESTINY group.

Next, Chapter 4: SPECIALIZED APPLICATION SOFTWARE by WECONNECTYOU group.

BASIC APPLICATION SOFTWARE

Application software is  end user software that is used  to accomplish a variety of tasks

Two categories :-

       -basic applications

       -specialized applications

Basic applications are also called general-purpose

Common types:-

    –Word processors

    –Spreadsheets

    –Database management systems

    –Presentation graphics

Specialized application

Also known as special-purpose applications

Includes thousands of other programs more narrowly focused on specific disciplines

and occupations

Best known:-

–Graphic programmer

–Audio and video editors

–Multimedia creation programs

–Web authoring

–Virtual reality programs

Common Feature:-

~ Graphical User Interface

~ Icons

~ Windows

~ Menus

~ Toolbars 

Toolbars 

e.g. standard toolbar and speech recognition

Microsoft Office 2007

 New interface:-

-Ribbons

-Contextual tabs

-Galleries

Word processor 

     Create a Flyer

     Creating a Report

Spreadsheets

       create Data

Data Based Management System (DBMS)

Presentation Graphics

Create a Presentation

Integrated Packages

software suites

SPECIALIZED APPLICATION SOFTWARE


~make it possible to perform advanced tasks at home
~examples:


     -Graphics Programs
    -Audio and Video Software
    -Multimedia Programs
    -Web Authoring Programs
    -Artificial Intelligence


1)Graphics
      ~Desktop Publishing
      ~Image Editors
      ~Illustration Programs
      ~Image Galleries
      ~Graphics Suites


a)Desktop Publishing
-allows you to create publications
-popular programs:
       ~Adobe InDesign
       ~Microsoft Publisher
       ~QuarkXpress

b)Image Editor
-creating and editing bitmap images

-popular programs:
       ~Paint.NET
       ~Adobe Photoshop
       ~Corel Paint Pro Shop

c)Illustration Programs
-used to create and edit vector images
-popular programs:
         ~Adobe Illustrator
         ~Inkscape
         ~CorelDRAW

d)Image Galleries
-used for a variety of applications
-two basic types:
        ~stock photographs
        ~clip art

e)Graphics Suite
-bundled graphic programs

2)Audio and Video
-video editing software
-audio editing software




3)Multimedia
-integration of variety of media into one presentation:
        ~video
        ~music
        ~voice
        ~graphics
        ~text




4)Multimedia Authoring Programs
-create multimedia presentations
-popular programs:
        ~Adobe Director
        ~Toolbook
-known as Web Page Editors or HTML Editors




5)Artificial Intelligence
          ~Virtual Reality

          ~Known-Based(expert) System
                -many used "fuzzy logic"




          ~Robotics


    After the presentation, we had done an online quiz on the previous chapter..=)