Online Applications

In reviewing the office suites, I found that Zoho was easier for me to use. Before this assignment I did not know that free office suites existed. When I first purchased my computer, I bought Microsoft Office not knowing that I could have used free suites. Zoho, the first suite that I reviewed was excellent. It was user friendly and possessed all the qualities of Microsoft Office. However, when transferring files the process took much longer than Microsoft. I also was not able to retrieve saved information from my flash drive. I was able to retrieve the information via internet. I would recommend this suite to co-workers and parents. Many people can not afford to purchase expensive suites such as Microsoft Office and this would give them the opportunity to own comparable software.

The second suite I reviewed was Google Documents. This suite was not as user friendly as Zoho. It took my computer several minutes to transfer information into a spreadsheet. I spent hours on this site and finally came to the conclusion that Zoho was more enjoyable to use than Google Documents. Therefore, I would probably share this information with others but would strongly recommend Zoho.

As for the image editors, I chose Foto Flexer and Phixr to review. I spent hours on both sites and found that Foto Flexer was more exciting than Phixr. Foto Flexer offered editing tools that where easy to use and the site was user friendly. I played with backgrounds, deleted blemishes and added boarders to pictures. This site proved to be fun and exciting. I plan to recommend this site to others, in an effort to help them make their pictures come alive. I played with one tool that allowed me to place a person’s face on a template body. This site was really cool. I plan to use it in the future.

Phixr was also a good site; however, it only allowed me to play with basic editing tools. This site did not have fun boarders and decorations tools like Foto Flexer. It only had the basic photo editing tools. I encountered several problems while playing with Phixr. I lost several pictures I downloaded and some of the tools distorted pictures to point that you could not recognize the image. Phixr was not as user friendly as Foto Flexer. Therefore, I would probably not recommend this site to my co-workers. Most of my co-workers are already afraid of the computer and this would probable increase their fears.