Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
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Google Drive Apps
: This Web-based productivity suite includes free apps for
editing for documents (Google Docs—somewhat like Word), spreadsheets
(Google Sheets—somewhat like Excel), and presentations (Google
Slides—somewhat like PowerPoint). Lots of people do their day-to-day
document editing with Google Drive Apps in a browser. To automate tasks in
Google Drive Apps, you use a scripting language called
Google Apps Script
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It's
based on JavaScript, and basically amounts to VBA for Google Apps. But it's
even better than VBA in that it can add custom menus, dialogs, and sidebars to
Google Drive Apps, interact with other Google services (such as AdSense and
Google Drive), and quite a bit more.
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Panorama
: Another, even older database app, Panorama was designed for
speed and flexibility. In much the same way that Nisus Writer Pro is a
programmable word processor, Panorama is a programmable database—in
fact, it's a complete development environment. You can control every aspect
of its operation and create enormously complex applications using programs
or scripts written in Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, or AppleScript, as well as shell
scripts.
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Logic Pro X
: Apple's professional audio recording software lets you create
multitrack recordings of real and virtual instruments and vocals, add effects,
and mix audio every which way. It can memorize all your changes in real
time—adjustments to volume, panning, equalization, effect levels, and other
parameters for each individual track—and repeat those changes every time you
record or play back your music.
