Apps we like
Apps used in courses and workshops:
Dropbox
Dropbox is storage for all your photos, docs, videos, and files. Anything you add to Dropbox will automatically show up on all your computers and phones and so you can access your stuff from anywhere. Dropbox also makes it easy to share these fileswith others.
FastStone Image Viewer
An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats, plus camera raw files. It has an array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more.
Google Calendar
Organising your schedule shouldn't be a burden. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place and share them with others if you wish.
Google Drive
Free backup for your photos, videos, files and more. Get access to those files anywhere from any smartphone, tablet, or computer through secure cloud storage. Share them with others if you wish. Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the cloud.
LibreOffice
A free suite of apps for creating text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more, which you can then save in Microsoft Office formats. With LibreOffice, you get nearly all the functionality of paid word processing and other programs without the hefty price tag.
Symbaloo
A free visual and social bookmarking tool. It allows you to keep all your internet locations in one area and access them from any device.
TradeMe
Want to buy or sell? Head to Trade Me, NZ's biggest & most popular auction & classifieds site, with thousands of new & used items in a wide range of categories.
Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free email and chat program.
Apps members love to use:
Evernote
A free app esigned for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including OS X, iOS, Chrome OS, Android, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and webOS) and also offers online synchronisation and backup services.
Todoist
A free online task management app and to-do list for Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, Chrome, Outlook and many more.
Ninite
Install and Update All Your Programs at Once
Google Calendar
With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place. Share your schedule; use a mobile version of Google Calendar; be notified of events by email or text message; send invitations and track RSVPs; sync with your desktop applications.
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- Last Updated: 11 October 2015