#Zoho seems to be an alternative for Google Docs

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...Obsidian is free (unless you want extra stuff), and auto-saves frequently.

Here some guides (+1, 2). I configured and added plugins loosely following said guides for writers, and I love it! It also has tabs as it was a browser lol.

also seems this in browser page saves text: https://750words.com/

(there's also: Marktext, Manuskript -sorta a free Scrivener but I heard about bugs-, Ghostwriter, Novelwriter, StimuWrite 2... Stuff like Typora, Bibisco, Zen, and Gingko are not free)

i write all my fics in wordcounter.net so i'm always one accidental cookies deletion away from disaster like i just had the jumpscare of my LIFE

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Get Microsoft Office 365 Without Paying a Dime

Microsoft Office 365 is the gold standard suite of productivity applications used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

However, the subscription pricing puts it out of reach for many home users and smaller organizations on tight budgets.

Thankfully, there are completely legitimate ways you can access the core Office apps and cloud services while spending absolutely $0.

In this detailed guide, I'll outline multiple methods that anyone can leverage to get a Microsoft 365 security consultant without paying anything.

We'll cover opting for the free online apps, taking advantage of Microsoft's temporary license offers, and utilizing capable alternative office suites.

Use the Online Versions

The simplest way to utilize Office 365 tools free is to use the online, web-based apps. These provide core functionality without needing to install anything:

Word Online - Edit, share, and publish documents from any device

Excel Online - Create and format spreadsheets and analyze data

PowerPoint Online - Build stunning presentations with collaboration

OneNote Online - Your digital notebook in the cloud for organizing notes and ideas

Microsoft Teams - Chat, call, meet, and collaborate all in one place

The online apps don't have full capabilities compared to the desktop versions but meet most light users' needs. Plus, you can access your files from anywhere with an internet connection.

Take Advantage of Free Subscription Offers

Microsoft and other companies periodically offer free access to Office 365 subscriptions. For example:

Microsoft Office 365 E3 Developer Subscription - Free for 90 days with unlimited renewals for developers wanting full Office apps and services.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium trials - 30-60 day risk-free trials for small business owners to evaluate the platform.

Student and teacher offer - Students at accredited schools can get Office 365 for free via Microsoft and third parties. Teachers also get additional classroom tools.

The offers grant full access to the genuine desktop and mobile Office apps. You or your organization must qualify for specific promotions.

I once took advantage of a student offer during university which gave me 5 years of Office 365! After that ended, I renewed with the E3 developer subscription.

Use Free Alternatives

If neither of the above options work for you, several Office 365 alternatives provide strong capabilities without mandatory subscriptions:

Desktop Apps

WPS Office - High compatibility with Microsoft document formats. Includes Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets modules.

Apache OpenOffice - Open source office suite with Word alternatives plus unique finance manager tools.

OnlyOffice - Lightweight interface with real-time coediting and Comments integrated throughout every app.

Cloud Services

Some other companies in the productivity space offer free cloud storage and office web apps:

Google Workspace - Includes secure cloud storage with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for content creation. Great if you use Gmail already.

Zoho Workplace - Online office suite combined with team messaging and video conferencing.

CryptPad - Fully encrypted open source real-time collaboration apps including rich text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

The interfaces of alternatives may differ from Microsoft Office, requiring some adjustment. But they can enable true $0 access and collaboration.

While scoring Microsoft Office 365 for outright free may seem unlikely, it is possible in certain situations like the ones outlined.

Hopefully you now have new ideas to start using Office either at no or low cost. Let me know in the comments if this helped you out!

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I know I’m the product

But this is getting a bit ridiculous.

So, I’ve been sorta trying to distance m’self from the big companies... Well, sorta. Facebook I straight up jettisoned as most of what I was using it for was playing a few games. Sure, it had some other uses, but nothing particularly important to me. The next target was moving away from Google, no rush, but the less I could do with them, the better.

Well, I think we might be speeding that up a bit. As everyone knows, these companies tailor their ads to what they know about you. Somethings aren’t real surprising as when I set my FB account up to delete, I had to switch my ScrabbleGo from being linked to FaceBook and instead use GoogleGames or whatever it’s called. Once that was done, I started getting ads for FaceBook, no surprise. The bigger surprise came this week. We have a HelloFresh account under my husband’s name, but it’s not the first time we had an account, that was under my name. Lately HF has been burying me in ads, 2+ a day in my email, which is annoying, but meh, I can ignore the spam. However, what changed this week is that I’m now getting ads of the same vein, here’s a deal to get you back, on my games. Yes, it looks like Google is taking info from my email, and selling ads based on that. Me thinks this is going a bit too far.

So, what is there to do about it? Well, as far as my phone goes, not much, I could go to IOS, but I’ve tried it and been underwhelmed. I am hoping to go to Linux, but that’s a long way off. Email has a lot of options, I’ve been giving Tutanota a look, which seems nice enough. I also decided to poke at one of my spare and all but forgotten about emails, Zoho, and realized they have an app suite to rival Google.

Why’s an app suite important? Well, as I said, I’ve been looking for an alternative to Google, and as well as making heavy use of their email, I also make heavy use of their docs to edit My Little Pony fanfics. I have looked at other text editors, but that same mix of ease of use, easy sharing, easy document control, just wasn’t there. Lots of editors with really nice features, but sharing options were limited to editing, that’s it. Zoho on the other hand allows readers, editors, co-owners, commenters and more. That and document analysis, personal dictionary, and more. And then there’s the other things they offer, like wikis. Yes, if you have an alt universe that heavy adds onto or changes the canon universe, you could create a guide here.

I really like Zoho, but dunno if’n I can convince the authors I work with to switch to it. The writer has one advantage, you can log in with a Google account, so it won’t require them to create a new email. It might be needed for some of the other features, and some of their more business oriented ones cost money, but still, it’s looking like a good replacement. Mind you, I could be trading one devil for another, but as their main business isn’t advertising, I think I may be safe.

On the personal front, this is even better, they have a notebook app which could replace Google Keep for me, and a spreadsheet app which kills another Google app.

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The Benefits of G Suite for Your Business (Why We Use It)

We use a multitude of different SaaS products here at Kinsta to keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes and to improve the productivity of our team. One product that we couldn’t live without is definitely G Suite! We aren’t afraid to come right out and say it’s by far the best email solution on the market right now for your business. Not to mention the other features that it comes with, such as Google Drive storage and tools such as Google Docs and Google Sheets. Today we’ll dive into the unparalleled benefits of G Suite, why we use it and recommend it to all of our clients, and how it compares to other similar solutions on the market.    What is G Suite?    Unparalleled Benefits of G Suite    G Suite vs Office 365 vs Zoho    Disadvantages of G Suite    How to Move to G Suite What is G Suite? G Suite is Google’s suite of intelligent apps. This was formerly known as Google Apps, till it was re-branded in late 2016. We primarily recommend G Suite for clients that are needing email hosting for their business. However, G Suite is much more than just email. It also includes a variety of apps and features that can come in quite handy. In fact, you’re probably already using or are familiar with some of them. lock and fork icon Still looking for that perfect WordPress host? Try Kinsta! See our plans Features We Use on a Daily Basis G Suite has three different plans you can use (of which we’ll dive into a little later on). We utilize the Basic G Suite plan for our employees here at Kinsta. This starts at just $5/user/month. For many of you, the basic plan is probably all you’ll ever need. Here’s what it includes: Gmail According to Litmus, Gmail leads the way as the most popular email client, with a whopping 26% of the market share based on open rates. It’s no surprise as Gmail has been around since 2004 and now boasts over 1.2 billion users. One of the best things about G Suite is you basically get an enhanced ad-free version of the online email client you’re probably already using. G Suite essentially allows your employees to have their own Gmail accounts with email addresses with your business domain name (example: john@yourbusiness.com). A very small business with one or two users might be able to get away with free Gmail accounts and some alias+forwarding rules.   If you have any type of concerns regarding where and ways to use google apps gratis, you could call us at our own web page. But once you start hiring two or three employees, you’ll find yourself needing accounts that can be managed separately. Google Calendar None of us here at Kinsta could live without Google Calendar. Many of us rely on it for scheduling calls with clients and setting due dates and reminders for important projects. Google Calendar can help you keep your schedule organized. G Suite Google Calendar One of the great things about using Google Calendar in G Suite is the ability to create multiple calendars that are accessible to everyone in your company (or even a subset of users). For example, you might want a group calendar for events like team holidays and regular meetings. Having all your employees attached to the same organization makes tasks like these even easier when compared to the free version. Google Drive Google Drive allows you to store, access, and share your files in one secure place. You then have easy access to them from any device. G Suite Basic plans come with 30GB of storage for every employee. G Suite’s Business, Enterprise, and Teams editions provide unlimited storage so you will always have enough space for your files. Note: If you’re a smaller team with fewer than 5 users, you only get 1TB/user. G Suite Google Drive If you haven’t used Google Drive before, one of the best things we like about it is the amazing search functionality! Although, it’s probably not too surprising seeing as they also run the largest search engine in the world. Did you know that you can search based on the content within a document (regardless of the file name)? Pretty handy. This means you can easily find what you’re looking for, no matter how disorganized you are. Google Drive search Google Drive search The paid version of Google Drive gives you twice the storage of your free personal drive and Gmail, 24/7 support, sharing controls, and advanced reporting. Google Docs and Google Sheets Google Docs and Google Sheets pretty much speak for themselves and again are tools we use every single day. These allow you to create and edit text documents and spreadsheets right in your browser. Import your documents to make them instantly editable, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PDF files (.docx, .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .txt, xlsx, .csv, .html, .ods). As of February 2018, you can now even collaborate and comment on Microsoft Office files without it having to automatically convert to Google’s format. You can also export to common third-party formats. This makes it easy to collaborate with other individuals or companies and send files back and forth, without ever needing to install or purchase additional software. Note: Google Docs and Spreadsheets created directly in G Suite don’t count towards your storage limit. G Suite Google Docs and Google Sheets Here are just a few of the common tasks we use them for:    Getting feedback and comments from team members on new website content.    Working with guest bloggers on content for our blog.    Sending content to others when writing on third-party sites. We’ve never had anyone in the past couple years request a Word document, everyone always requests a Google Doc. Why? Because it’s just super simple and easy to use.    Crunching spreadsheet data from Ahrefs exports.    Running quick financial figures.    Keeping track of PPC budgets and online advertising copy variations.    Analyzing CTR changes as it pertains to SERPs.    Writing up content for paid sponsorships (WordCamps). One of the best features of Google Docs and Spreadsheets is the real-time commenting and unlimited versions. Previous versions are kept indefinitely and they don’t count toward your storage. This makes it super easy to track changes made to a document or undo a mistake. Sharing documents with your coworkers or other individuals is also incredibly easy. Google Docs versions Google Docs versions Google Keep Google Keep seems to be one of those well-kept secrets that nobody knows about. If you’re looking for a basic Evernote alternative, Google Keep rocks! This is a great little tool regardless of whether or not you’re using G Suite. Being a Google product, it works flawlessly within the Google ecosystem. G Suite Google Keep It can be an easy way to keep those frequently asked questions you get from customers in a convenient place. Create to-do lists, notes, and set reminders to stay on track. Everything syncs across your devices, so what’s important is always in reach. Easily share them with your team and archive them when you’re done. And once again Google’s search works flawlessly with it.  

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When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not a good idea. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies.

Here are ten alternatives to Google search:

StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands).

Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source.

MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.

SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.

Qwant – A private search engine based in France.

DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US.

Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).

YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.

Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.

Ecosia – Ecosia is based in Germany and donates a part of revenues to planting trees.

Note: With the exception of Mojeek, all of the private search engines above are technically metasearch engines, since they source their results from other search engines, such as Bing and Google.

Gmail alternatives

Gmail may be convenient and popular, but there are three major problems:

Your inbox is used as a data collection tool. (Did you know Google is tracking your purchasing history from the receipts in your inbox?)

Rather than seeing just emails, your email inbox is also used for ads and marketing.

The contents of your inbox are being shared with Google and other random third parties.

When you remain logged in to your Gmail account, Google can easily track your activities online as you browse different websites, which may be hosting Google Analytics or Google ads (Adsense).

Here are ten alternatives to Gmail that do well in terms of privacy:

Tutanota – based in Germany; very secure and private; free accounts up to 1 GB

Mailfence – based in Belgium; lots of features; free accounts up to 500 MB

Posteo – based in Germany; €1/mo with 14 day refund window

StartMail – based in Netherlands; $5.00/mo with 7 day free trial

Runbox – based in Norway; lots of storage and features; $1.66/mo with 30 day free trial

Mailbox.org – based in Germany; €1/mo with 30 day free trial

CounterMail – based in Sweden; $4.00/mo with 7 day free trial

Kolab Now – based in Switzerland; €4.41/mo with 30 day money-back guarantee

ProtonMail – based in Switzerland; free accounts up to 500 MB

Thexyz – based in Canada; $1.95/mo with 30 day refund window

More information on these providers is available in the secure and private email services guide.

Chrome alternatives

Google Chrome is a popular browser, but it’s also a data collection tool – and many people are taking notice. Just a few days ago, the Washington Post asserted that “Google’s web browser has become spy software,” with 11,000 tracker cookies observed in a single week. Here are seven alternatives for more privacy:

Firefox browser – Firefox is a very customizable, open-source browser that is popular in privacy circles. There are also many different Firefox modifications and tweaks that will give you more privacy and security. (Also check out Firefox Focus, a privacy-focused version for mobile users.)

Iridium – Based on open source Chromium, Iridium offers numerous privacy and security enhancements over Chrome, source code here.

GNU IceCat – A fork of Firefox from the Free Software Foundation.

Tor browser – A hardened and secured version of Firefox that runs on the Tor network by default. (It also does a good job against browser fingerprinting.)

Ungoogled Chromium – Just as the name says, this is an open source version of Chromium that has been “ungoogled” and modified for more privacy.

Brave – Brave is another Chromium-based browser that is rather popular. It blocks trackers and ads by default (except for “approved” ads that are part of the “Brave Ads” network).

Waterfox – This is a fork of Firefox that is configured for more privacy by default, with Mozilla telemetry stripped out of the code.

Of course, there are other alternatives to Chrome, such as Safari (from Apple), Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi – but these also come with some privacy drawbacks.

Google Drive alternatives

If you’re looking for a secure cloud storage option, you can check out these Google Drive alternatives:

Tresorit – A user-friendly cloud storage option based in Switzerland.

ownCloud – An open source and self-hosted cloud platform developed in Germany.

Nextcloud – Nextcloud is also an open source, self-hosted file sharing and collaboration platform, based in Germany.

Sync – Based in Canada, Sync offers a secure, encrypted cloud storage solution for businesses and individuals.

Syncthing – Here we have a decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer cloud storage platform.

Of course, Dropbox is another popular Google drive alternative, but it’s not the best in terms of privacy.

Google Calendar alternative

Here are some Google Calendar alternatives:

Lightning Calendar is an open source calendar option developed by Mozilla, and it’s compatible with Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

Etar, an open source, basic calendar option.

Fruux, an open source calendar with good features and support for many operating systems.

For those wanting a combined solution for both email and calendar functionality, these providers offer that:

Mailfence

Kolab Now

Posteo.de

Mailbox.org

Google Docs / Sheets / Slides alternative

There are many solid Google Docs alternatives available. The largest offline document editing suite is, of course, Microsoft Office. As most people know, however, Microsoft is not the best company for privacy. Nonetheless, there are a few other good Google Docs alternatives:

CryptPad – CryptPad is a privacy-focused alternative with strong encryption, and it’s free.

Etherpad – A self-hosted collaborative online editor that’s also open source.

Zoho Docs – This is another good Google Docs alternative with a clean interface and good functionality, although it may not be the best for privacy.

OnlyOffice – OnlyOffice feels a bit more restricted than some of the other options in terms of features.

Cryptee – This is a privacy-focused platform for photo and document storage and editing. It’s open source and based in Estonia.

LibreOffice (offline) – You can use LibreOffice which is free and open source.

Apache OpenOffice (offline) – Another good open source office suite.

Google Photos alternative

Here are a few good Google Photos alternatives:

Piwigo – Piwigo is a great option that you can self-host. It is also free and open source.

Lychee – Lychee is another self-hosted, open source photo management platform.

Shoebox was another alternative, but it closed operations in June 2019.

YouTube alternatives

Unfortunately, YouTube alternatives can really be hit or miss, with most struggling to gain popularity.

Peertube

DTube

Bitchute

invidio.us

Vimeo

Bit.tube

Dailymotion

Hooktube

Tip: Invidio.us is a great Youtube proxy that allows you to watch any Youtube video without logging in, even if the video is somehow restricted. To do this, simply replace [www.youtube.com] with [invidio.us] in the URL you want to view.

Google Translate alternative

Here are a few Google translate alternatives I have come across:

DeepL – DeepL is a solid Google Translate alternative that seems to give great results. Like Google Translate, DeepL allows you to post up to 5,000 characters at a time (but the pro version is unlimited). The user interface is good and there is also a built-in dictionary feature.

Linguee – Linguee does not allow you to post large blocks of text like DeepL. However, Linguee will give you very accurate translations for single words or phrases, along with context examples.

dict.cc – This Google Translate alternative seems to do a decent job on single-world lookups, but it also feels a bit outdated.

Swisscows Translate – A good translation service supporting many languages.

If you want to translate blocks of text, check out DeepL. If you want in-depth translations for single words or phrases, then Linguee is a good choice.

Google Analytics alternative

For website admins, there are many reasons to use an alternative to Google Analytics. Aside from privacy concerns, there are also faster and more user-friendly alternatives that also respect your visitors’ privacy.

Clicky is a great alternative to Google Analytics that truncates and anonymizes visitor IP addresses by default. It is lightweight, user-friendly, and fully compliant with GDPR regulations, while also being certified by Privacy Shield.

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open-source analytics platform that respects the privacy of visitors by anonymizing and truncating visitor IP addresses (if enabled by the website admin). It is also certified to respect user privacy.

Fathom Analytics is an open source alternative to Google Analytics that’s available on Github here. It’s minimal, fast, and lightweight.

AT Internet is a France-based analytics provider that is fully GDPR compliant, with all data stored on French servers, and a good track record going back to 1996.

Many websites host Google Analytics because they run Google Adsense campaigns. Without Google Analytics, tracking performance of these campaigns would be difficult. Nonetheless, there are still better options for privacy.

Google Maps alternative

A map alternative for PCs is OpenStreetMap.

A few Google Maps alternatives for mobile devices include:

OsmAnd is a free and open-source mobile maps app for both Android and iOS (based on OpenStreetMap data).

Maps (F Droid) uses OpenStreetMap data (offline).

Here WeGo provides good mapping solutions for both PCs and mobile devices with their app.

Maps.Me is another option that is free on both Android and iOS, but there is a fair amount of data collection with this alternative, as explained in their privacy policy.

MapHub is also based on OpenStreeMap data and it does not collect locations or user IP addresses.

Note: Waze is not an “alternative” as it is owned by Google.

Google Play Store alternative

Currently the best Google Play Store alternative is to use F-Droid and then go through the Yalp store. As explained on the official site, F-Droid is an installable catalog of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. After you have installed F-Droid, you can then download the Yalp store APK, which allows you to download apps from the Google Play Store directly as APK files.

See the F-Droid website or the official GitHub page for more info. Other alternatives to the Google Play Store include:

TechSpot – We have an Android section in Downloads full of safe and verified downloads.

Aptoide – An independent marketplace for Android apps.

APKMirror – This is a large library of APK files uploaded by different users (be careful).

Aurora Store – A fork of the Yalp Store.

Google Chrome OS alternative

Want to ditch the Chromebook and Chrome OS? Here are a few alternatives:

Linux – Of course, Linux is arguably the best alternative, being a free, open-source operating system with lots of different flavors. With some adjustments, Linux Ubuntu can be run on Chromebooks.

Tails – Tails is a free, privacy-focused operating system based on Linux that routes all traffic through the Tor network.

QubesOS – Recommended by Snowden, free, and also open source.

Of course, the other two big operating system alternatives are Windows and Apple’s operating system for MacBooks – Mac OS. Windows, particularly Windows 10, is a very bad option for privacy. While slightly better, Apple also collects user data and has partnered with the NSA for surveillance.

Android alternatives

The biggest alternative to Android is iOS from Apple. But we’ll skip over that for reasons already mentioned. Here are a few Android OS alternatives:

LineageOS – A free and open-source operating system for phones and tablets based on Android.

Ubuntu Touch – A mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system.

Plasma Mobile – An open source, Linux-based operating system with active development.

Sailfish OS – Another open source, Linux-based mobile OS.

Replicant – A fully free Android distribution with an emphasis on freedom, privacy, and security.

/e/ – This is another open source project with a focus on privacy and security.

Purism is also working on a privacy-focused mobile phone called the Librem 5. It is in production, but not yet available (estimated Q3 2019).

Google Hangouts alternatives

Here are some alternatives to Google Hangouts:

Wire – A great all-around secure messenger, video, and chat app, but somewhat limited on the number of people who can chat together in a group conversation via voice or video.

Signal – A good secure messenger platform from Open Whisper Systems.

Telegram – A longtime secure messenger app, formerly based in Russia, now in Dubai.

Riot – A privacy-focused encrypted chat service that is also open source.

Google Domains alternative

Google Domains is a domain registration service. Here are a few alternatives:

Namecheap – I like Namecheap because all domain purchases now come with free WhoisGuard protection for life, which protects your contact information from third parties. Namecheap also accepts Bitcoin and offers domain registration, hosting, email, SSL certs, and a variety of other products.

Njalla – Njalla is a privacy-focused domain registration service based in Nevis. They offer hosting options, too, and also accept cryptocurrency payments.

OrangeWebsite – OrangeWebsite offers anonymous domain registration services and also accepts cryptocurrency payments, based in Iceland.

Other Google alternatives

Here more alternatives for various Google products:

Google Forms alternative – JotForm is a free online form builder.

Google Keep alternative – Below are a few different Google Keep alternatives:

Standard Notes is a great alternative for a note-taking service. It is secure, encrypted, and free with apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android (web-based also available).

Joplin is another great option that is open source and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Zoho Notebook from Zoho, with apps for desktop and mobile devices.

QOwnNotes is an open source file editor with Nextcloud integration.

Google Fonts alternative – Many websites load Google fonts through Google APIs, but that’s not necessary. One alternative to this is to use Font Squirrel, which has a large selection of both Google and non-Google fonts which are free to download and use.

Google Voice alternative – JMP.chat (both free and paid)

G Suite alternative – Zoho is probably the best option

Google Firebase alternative – Kuzzle (free and open source)

Google Blogger alternatives – WordPress, Medium, and Ghost are all good options.

Do you have any other tips or suggestions for Google alternatives? Feel free to drop a comment below. This guide will be regularly updated to reflect the latest information and user feedback.

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How to Create Profitable Software in Your Niche Market

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How to Create Profitable Software in Your Niche Market

In growing software program, there are normal steps you need to take to get the job completed. These steps could consist of:

Profitable Software

– Systems evaluation: This way you have to determine what the application you desire to create will do. This might also contain creating a necessities specification. This file will incorporate records as to how the software program will perform, the information it’s going to use, and the functions the software will perform.

– Software layout: Now comes the amusing part of definitely taking the requirements specification and developing the software program. You will create the actual define or blueprint, if you will, and create facts systems and specific units of commands the programmer will use to create the software. This is known as the layout specification.

– Programming: This is where the programmer (you until you don’t know programming), will take the design specification and actually run a software that you’ll use to kind of the necessary code to create the program.

– Testing: After the program is written you may have to check it to ensure it works. If it would not you have to cross returned to discover why. If it does, you bring together the code and create it as a stand-on my own utility.

But what if you are not a programmer? Can you continue to create software program on your area of interest market of customers? Well, recall something for a minute. There are methods and instances wherein the software program can be created through someone else. But before you even create software, you must recognize who you are focused on. If you do not know that, it might not do you any exact to create the software besides.

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When you create the software program, your attention on getting it out to the those who count the maximum. You gift it in your clients to be able to check drive the software program. If all is nice, they’ll document your software program works. In that case, you’ll best amend the software so while it’s far achieved, this system will perform certain duties that can be required via the agency to take. These movements would require your customer to pay for the software program.

In addition, after I released my evaluation-producing software to the general public, I observed that many different small enterprise proprietors took benefit of the software and used it for their personal purposes. These purposes blanketed producing client leads, pre-qualify clients, accumulating records throughout intake, the usage of self-exams to feature price to their education applications, and a lot more. Users grow to be absolutely innovative, even past your personal creativeness!

1. Surround yourself together with your target audience – humans for your area of interest market – with the aid of studying what they read, going where they move, interviewing some of them in character or by means of a smartphone, traveling their message forums, and surveying them. This may be done an awful lot faster in case you already understand who your target audience is, and in case you represent your target market in some way.

2. Find out what their largest troubles and demanding situations are and what software program or internet-based service may want to make their lives ten times less complicated.

3. When you have a concept for a software application, do some studies on-line to discover if anyone else is presenting some thing like that. If it already exists, how could you be making it better? Different? Easier? Less steeply-priced? If it doesn’t exist, approach a few contributors of your target market (4-5 humans) and share your idea with them. Ask for sincere comments on whether or not they suppose it will be useful to them.

Business Architecture – The Open Road to Open Source Software

Yippee-ki yi- yay…That well-worn ‘vintage west’ cowboy cry that some might not find out of preserving with the popular image in a few quarters of the open source software program. Most people have heard about open supply software program and a lot of us think we have a sense of what it’s far approximately.

Many people see it as being approximate ‘techie’ software program, written by using ‘beard & sandals’ brigade academics and hackers, with the intention to run your laptop extra reliably than M$ ever did. This of the path is predicated on the doubtful assumption that you could parent out the way to find and set up it…By no means thoughts the troubles to do with ongoing development, aid, education, etc.

Those perceptions, at the same time as nonetheless partly accurate, conceal how some distance the open source motion has come inside the beyond 5-10 years. While open supply offerings with exciting names like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, and Tomcat are very a good deal still part of the order of the day and still unfastened, they have got emerge as an awful lot more available and essential.

You now robotically locate data showing that this ‘techie’ so-called LAMP Stack software bills for an excessive and developing percentage of installations on the server farms and routers that run the contemporary world���s computing and internet infrastructure. Not simplest has it turn out to be extra pleasant to put in and configure, however, its operational reliability places much call-emblem proprietary competition to shame…Not horrific at no cost software program written via ‘geeks’ in their spare time!

Although, to be truthful, these days you’re nearly as probably to discover well-paid body of workers at some of the sectors best understand organizations (e.G. IBM, Novelle, Sun, Cisco, and so forth) being endorsed to spend time growing open source offerings so that their employers can advantage a foot-preserve in this rapid-transferring and really revolutionary space.

You see, the huge men have subsequently woken as much as the truth that loose would not necessarily mean limited feature sets or negative satisfactory. And, more to the factor, much like some other maturing industry, software program is beginning to turn out to be an increasing number of commoditised over the years (i.E. Because of competitive outcomes human beings turn out to be used to paying much less and much less…That’s normally awful for profits!).

Therefore, while an interesting new phenomenon seems, wherein something you used to pay for is now loose to all, and people are being profitable from it through other means…E.G. Enterprise models primarily based on advertising and marketing, education, support, customisations, and so on, you tend to get the attention of the top brass. And what the top brass is rubbing their eyes in a few dismay over is the truth that the submit-infant-boomer generation loves the open source ethos.

Open supply is not pretty much being loose, open source is also tied up with less tangible ideals like social duty and work-existence stability. They won’t absolutely recognize it or sense it’s charms for themselves, but the pinnacle brass does know (albeit grudgingly) that open supply isn’t just a flash in the pan and that it is going to be an ever extra outstanding force driving their techniques…As regards their markets, their customers and their personal employees (e.G. Recruitment & retention).

Anyway, as we’ve cited before, an honest little bit of this open supply software program stuff is pretty precise and the pinnacle brass has ultimately woken up to the fact that there may be multiple manners to turn a profit beyond the ‘vintage college’ exercise of charging for software through the seat or CPU. In fact, possibly now not exceedingly, it receives even higher.

It turns out that open source isn’t always pretty much techie systems software program like running systems, web servers, programming languages and databases anymore. These are nevertheless there and doing thoroughly thanks, but now there also are credible competition acting for the office productiveness suite so long ruled by way of M$.

M$ probably believed it had the whole lot sewed up whilst the likes of WordPerfect, Borland and finally even IBM/Lotus essentially ceded the ground and left the sector of struggle. Sure, a number of this software survived in niches, and M$ became satisfied for it to do so as it blunted the occasional accusations of monopoly. However, despite the fact that M$ saw them coming, they did not pretty believe any open supply challenger may be an extreme chance.

But now we see the likes of OpenOffice and StarOffice beginning to provide M$ an actual run for its cash on the computing device. Further, new on line variations of office productiveness software…E.G. Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree to call a few…Also, are starting to pose credible options to the flagship M$ offering.

None may additionally (as yet) be as completely featured or as slick because of the M$ supplying, however, some already provide all of the features the full-size majority of users virtually use…And they only hold getting higher with each successive generation. Add to this the growing number of agencies and government organizations adopting them as fashionable trouble. Poor M$…

Just for the record, we aren’t really M$ bashers. We use a number of their products day by day, however, it is right to see competition returning to a market so glaringly missing it for seeing you later! But wait, even greater to our bemusement is that the open source software escalator does not forestall with techie LAMP Stack software program or maybe the office productivity suite alternatives. Increasingly there are credible open supply software services in truely every fundamental class of business enterprise-magnificence enterprise utility!