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Communication App - Telegram

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 Communication apps are extremely popular nowadays. They are great ways to communicate with friends and family when you are apart and also gives users a way to meet and talk with new people. It can also be used in the classroom and the workplace as a way to have open lines of communication with students or employees. This blog focuses on one of the many communication apps available to users: Telegram. Telegram is a chat-based app that allows users to talk with existing contacts in their phone or search for nearby users using GPS functions. It has a 4.3 star review on the Google Play Store and has over a billion downloads worldwide. The selling point on this app for me is that fact that all communication created in the app is completely safe and secure. The app designers used complex encryption techniques to make sure that user's privacy is not violated in any way. According to the developers, this app is one of the worlds top 10 most downloaded apps, which made me excited to use it...

Collaboration App - Miro

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 Collaborating on projects in the 21st century may mean that you never physically see the people you are working with for a project. This has become increasingly prevalent in a post-COVID world where hybrid and remote jobs are in high demand. It's also great for students in online courses to have a way to collaborate with each other on group projects. The app this blog will review is a whiteboard app called Miro. Miro has a 4.7 star review and over a million downloads on the Google Play Store. I was excited to get into the app after seeing the reviews and looking at the demo photos in the store description. It reminded me of something similar to an app I've used in the past where you collaborate via sticky notes on a virtual corkboard.  The design of the app is fairly sophisticated. There are some tutorials that you can take when you first log in to learn how to use the app, but the tutorials fell short in my opinion. It shows you how to move around the whiteboard, but not how...