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
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desktop computer: PC/Windows, Mac/iOS, other such as Linux
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laptop: ditto
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netbook: smaller and ditto
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iPad: can do much of what the above can do
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Other tablets that compete with iPad: Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Android Galaxy
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smartphone - minicomputer/phone, battle between Apple and Google (Android)
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Kindle, Nook - readers can connect to internet with "cellphone calls" for books, email
Software on own computer or device
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Operating system: Windows, iOS, Linux
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Basic productivity like word processing and spreadsheet: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.)
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OpenOffice (free alternative to Microsoft Office)
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Browsers for traveling around the World Wide Web: Windows Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc
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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
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Games, such as several that are part of Windows operating system
Software on the web somewhere
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Facebook (a billiion users world wide and one of the 5 biggies w/ Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon)
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Twitter (only 140 characters, inclu. spaces)
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Other social: LinedIn, etc.
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Web-based email: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail
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Google Docs (alternate and free Office-like software)
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Picasa and other photo storage and "album" depositories
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Google Sites for your own free web site
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Google "Blogger", Wordpress and other free blogging sites
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Feedly and other "readers", places to collect latest posts of favorite blogs
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Games such as those on the AARP web site
Storage of files on the web
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Google Drive
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iCloud
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Amazon Cloud
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Dropbox
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Bill
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