Week 8: Online applications.
Today I am looking at Zoho Writer which is an on line word processing program. It is like having the most up to date word program on your computer.
The advantage is that you don't have to have it installed on your
computer, you can access it from anywhere and just sign in and use it. Although you need to be on the Internet to sign in and access the program you can also work off line. It allows you to export your work to your PC and import work to the online program.
The program keeps track of all your documents and automatically saves them for you as you are working. It is then just a matter of naming and organising them when you wish to exit the application. Documents can be placed in folders and also tagged so that the same document can be saved
into more than one folder if it is relevant to more than one subject.
Zoho also allows other people to review and edit the same document at the same time,
which is handy if you want to work with someone who is not in the same office. This can be done by entering email addresses of people that you authorise to view and edit your documents.
Documents can be saved as read only or read/write to allow editing by other people.
Zoho also has all the other applications found in Microsoft office, such as spread sheets, power point, calenders etc. It also allows users to post to blogs, emails and share using the same application. I am writing this in Zoho writer and am going to post it to my blog.
I have also looked at Google Docs which is a similar program, it looks more like Word 2003 whereas Zoho looks and operates the same as Word 2007.
Google Docs has a lot of the same features, but I think that Zoho has more flexibility and more applications.
