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Remember traveling before smartphone map apps? Breaking out travel maps, having to stop to reorient yourself on the road, and dreading coming off of a flight just to try and navigate a completely new area? Technology has alleviated this greatly, with apps such as Google Maps aiding in direct navigation and TripAdvisor helping you plan out the most important places to visit.
All the tools to create, edit, manage and convert your documents, take notes, manage todo lists, personal information, databases, calendars, appointments, contacts, emails, presentations, spreadsheets, time-sheets, conferences etc.
Share your photos, your interests, your life through blogs, forums and social networks; keep in touch with your friends and meet people with text, video and voice chat, text messaging, and social media clients.
In life, things happen. It’s the nature of the beast. Fires, floods, robbery, and other disasters that can rob you of data occur with some amount of regularity. This means that it’s critical to have a backup or contingency plan in order to pick up where you left off the best you can in case the worst case occurs. That’s where software focused on backing up and synchronizing your data comes in.
Software that focuses on backing up physical media, local hard drive data, and even critical messages and other forms of communication is the focus here, alongside services such as DropBox and OneDrive that focus on constantly syncing data between your devices and secure external servers that you can access from anywhere with an Internet connection.
In these modern times, remote communication has proven highly effective for conducting business and for remote learning. Employees and students can be practically anywhere and still get work done. Whether video conferencing one-on-one, remotely walking users through software procedures or conducting a bustling, online meeting complete with a collaborative white board and interactive presentations, modern apps have us covered.
Managing files on computers is a concept as old as computers themselves. We’ve come a long way from the humble floppy, as these apps are all about managing files and folders, including browsing, searching, archival, locking, copying, deleting, comparison, merging, splitting, renaming, or tagging.
Whether it’s sending an email to your friend, attaching a photo to a message for your beloved on WhatsApp, or transferring a lengthy presentation to multiple team members across the globe, file sharing is an integral function of modern technology that we all use every day.
The applications and services found on this page all focus on different parts of the wide spectrum of file sharing, whether that’s hosting a File Transfer Protocol server or enabling users to download photo albums with ease.
The most used software in today’s Internet services-oriented world, web browsers are the deciding factor in how most users perceive not only online services, but all of computing and even all of technology. That’s why it’s not only important to choose the browser that’s right for you, but also just the right supplemental software extensions and utilities to make your web browsing experience one that caters to your needs.
With advancing technology comes increasingly complex ways of people getting in to parts of it they shouldn’t. Whether it’s malware or viruses brute force attacks to steal private data, security is one of the most important aspects of ensuring that users stay safe when using the apps they love and need with peace of mind.
Modern day networking is a very different beast in terms of complexity, though the general idea remains the same: Maintain a digital network of computers, both in server form and even in virtual machine form, and perform all administrative tasks needed in order to do so efficiently and effectively. To do this, software to monitor network traffic and uptime, analyze system logs, and web usage statistics is crucial. That’s where the software in this category comes in to play.