Senior electronic living

About a year from now, my friend and I plan on giving a presentation to mostly senior people on the various electronic tools available.  Here is a rough rundown on the possibilities.

Hardware

• desktop computer: PC/Windows, Mac/iOS, other such as Linux

• laptop: ditto

• netbook: smaller and ditto

• iPad: can do much of what the above can do

• Other tablets that compete with iPad: Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Android Galaxy

• smartphone - minicomputer/phone, battle between Apple and Google (Android)

• Kindle, Nook - readers can connect to internet with "cellphone calls" for books, email

Software on own computer or device

• Operating system: Windows, iOS, Linux

• Basic productivity like word processing and spreadsheet: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.)

• OpenOffice (free alternative to Microsoft Office)

• Browsers for traveling around the World Wide Web: Windows Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc

• Apps (applications), either Apple iPhone and iPad or Android (Google system), more than 400,000 apps from Apple for nearly any purpose you can imagine

• Games, such as several that are part of Windows operating system

Software on the web somewhere

• Facebook (a billiion users world wide and one of the 5 biggies w/ Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon)

• Twitter (only 140 characters, inclu. spaces)

• Other social: LinedIn, etc.

• Web-based email: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail

• Google Docs (alternate and free Office-like software)

• Picasa and other photo storage and "album" depositories

• Google Sites for your own free web site

• Google "Blogger", Wordpress and other free blogging sites

• Feedly and other "readers", places to collect latest posts of favorite blogs

• Games such as those on the AARP web site

Storage of files on the web

• Google Drive

• iCloud

• Amazon Cloud

• Dropbox

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Bill
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