Week 12 Application Reviews

The two applications I choose to recommend are Google Documents and PicMonkey. Here, I don’t want to focus on describe the features of each applications, but I want to explain why I choose this two tools.

Google Documents:

Well, I didn’t use too much of this application before. But I have to say that this is what I need most right now. In my leisure time, I prefer to play online computer game with my friends. Recently, we established a guild in that game, and until now, almost 100 people were enrolled in our guild. As a leader in this guild, I have to formulate the system about how to manage members and how to reward and punish. After discussing with my friends and several old members, we decide to use DKP (Dragon Kill Points) system. For this reason, I need an application to count everybody’s point and post it to somewhere to let them check. Now, the Google Sheets will help me a lot. It can help me record everyone’s point. Also, I can edit and save the data online and everyone can check it easily. On contrast, if I choose to use Microsoft Excel, I have to edit the point every week and upload again and again to renew the recent record. Similarly, using Google Documents is so helpful for education. Between teachers and students, or groups members, they can easily share the Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Especially, it will be useful in teamwork. Since everyone can join to edit, once a Docs/Sheets/Slides is uploaded, everyone can review and edit it basing on their opinion while a virtual group meeting isn’t necessary. This will help to everyone in this team to schedule their time more flexible.

Another reason I choose this is because the Google product is more worldwide. Almost everyone in this world knows the Google. Also, for personal reason, since I find that I can switch the language of Google product into Chinese or other language, this might be more suited to recommend to other people since the language problem will be solved.

PicMonkey:

I try the SumoPaint for several minutes actually but I still prefer to recommend PicMonkey. UmoPaint is a good application that I think it almost can replace Microsoft Paint. But I’m thinking that Microsoft Paint is already a free application, and we can use it even without Internet. For this reason, I’m more considering about which one is easier to use. I have to say that I really like the interface of PicMonkey. It is very intuitive and neat. And I think this might be the application that even my mum, a 55 years old high school teacher and always have difficult on technology using, will know how to use it by click the icon. I always prefer to recommend application that is easy to use to others, instead of recommending a complicated one and they might ask me tons of technic questions after they use, since we are trying to solve problems, not creating problems.