Sunday, October 27, 2013

Personal productivity tools via collaboration tools

I use a range of tools to help with my work and make it much more efficient and manageable and without such tools simple tasks would become such a chore to do, to get in contact with people these three tools are really good, All are free except for which you have to pay for if you want to video call with a group of people, Onyou can video chat with 12 people as a maximum which is extremely useful when working in groups,Google Video Chat is the only incumbent that needs to be dethroned for general consumer video-conference usage. Google Chat has is easy to use and requires a only quick installation. For me, simplicity is really the name of the game.



LibreOffice is the full-featured suite of office apps that costs nothing and runs on everything. LibreOffice is an offshoot of the old OpenOffice.org suite, now revived as Apache OpenOffice, but Apache OpenOffice is far behind LibreOffice in power and elegance. If you want to leave your documents in the cloud, gets the job done in a highly-polished but low-featured way, but LibreOffice is the only free, open-source desktop office suite that's even worth considering. Google Docs is Google's on-line competitor to . Featuring a word processing suite, spread sheet suite, presentation suite, and data collection/form suite, this product is clearly aiming its sights at Microsoft's solutions.




ECLIPSE is a multi-language Integrated development environment (IDE) comprising a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. It is written mostly in Java. It can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various plug-ins, other programming languages including C++,JavaScript. Development environments include the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) for Java. For all my projects in programming was used it is a extremely good tool and useful when learning how to use code



Blender is a free 3D modelling tool or animation software. Since Blender is entirely free, it's worth the effort if you are serious about 3D art and animation, whether amateur or pro, and have a lot of artistic talent and perseverance. Blender seems to favour users who also are programmers or gamers, or at least engineering-inclined. Using Blender in projects and in my Final Year project has being extremely useful and trying to model without it would be next to near impossible.Google SketchUp is another great modelling tool, it is mainly used for Architecture but can be used for game design also. Working with SketchUp alsoon my Final Year Project has made modelling building much easier than any other modelling tool that I have used to create buildings. Google SketchUp can be used in conjunction with Google maps which makes for better modelling systems as you can take real life buildings and model them.



Conclusion



All these tools are vital for me. And in certain projects including my Final Year Project not having these tools would be a very daunting task.
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