There's an app for that - #MFRW 52-week blog challenge

This week's blog challenge prompts participants to write about their favorite apps.

I associate apps with smartphones, something I neither have nor want. But apps, being the vernacular term for "applications," applies to desktop, laptop, and other handheld computers, too. So, I'll play.

• Adobe Creative Suite: I remember PageMaker. It was fabulous and a marked improvement upon the desktop publishing program I had been using. Now I use InDesign and flirt with Illustrator and PhotoShop. Acrobat is a treasure!
• Google Docs: Absolutely wonderful for sharing documents, it really comes in handy when I draft content for a client's review. No cumbersome swapping of files and getting lost in who's got which version.
• YouTube. Is this an app? Regardless, it's my own personal radio allowing me to listen to the music that suits my mood when I work.
• Calibre. This nifty program helps me know what my books will look like in epub and mobi formats.

For what it's worth, I dislike Microsoft Word, although I use it all the time. I really detest the way it assumes it knows what I want. I really liked WordPerfect, but that's just not a viable program anymore.

I'd included Amazon's Kindle, because that's how I read most books these days, but I've got the device and don't need to download the Kindle Reading App.

I have a love-hate relationship with Gmail. For some weird reason, it makes me login at least twice, if not three times, to access any of my email accounts. That's a nuisance and just darned irritating.

I do use social media, although I don't particularly like it.

Being more or less a technophobe, I have no  great affection for computers, regardless of how much time I spend using them. They're tools.