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d. Zorin connect
New to Zorin is the introduction of Zorin connect – with the Android app installed on your phone you can use your volume button to scroll through Presentations or a browser if you wanted to say make a presentation in html5, the web browser gets mirrored on your phone so you don’t have to look back at the presentation in the Browser on the interactive screen behind you!
Utilities – Top;
Archive Manager this can be likened to 7-Zip, WinRAR, peazip, WinZip etc. - it can be used for extracting compressed files in a variety of formats and also for compressing,
Backups this is just a simple backup solution for your ‘Home’ folder, NOT the system and you can have it ignore downloads and trash folders. System Backups will be covered under useful applications later in the manual, Characters – this is a special set of Characters not normally associated with Character Maps and includes Punctuation, Arrows, Bullets, Pictures, Currencies, Math, Letters and Emoticons.
[Please not that this is NOT the same as a Character Map – if you need a Character Map you need to install ‘gucharmap’
see: https://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13613 ]
Disk Usage Analyzer gives a graphical representation of what is where and how much of it there is on your hard drive,
Disks is a useful utility, listing all disks present internally and externally and whether mounted or otherwise with built-in tools for formatting, unmounting/mounting, safely remove/power-off external devices, Document Viewer for viewing pdfs,
Font Viewer to view available fonts and how they would appear in a document, just as you would view fonts in Windows ‘Fonts’ folder,
Help – this is a Help file for the Gnome Desktop and specifically refers to ‘Activities’ which Zorin users may find confusing when using the Windows 7 style desktop unless they have used traditional Gnome desktop.
Utilities – Bottom;
Image Viewer - for viewing photos and other images stored in your Pictures
folder within your Home folder,
Logs – equivalent to ‘Event Viewer’ in that other OS!,
Passwords and Keys – from the Help Guide:
“Introduction
Welcome to the Passwords and Keys help guide. Passwords and Keys creates and stores security tokens, helping to keep your information secure on your computer, and secure when you send information over a network.
Using Passwords and Keys, you can:
Copy and save passwords that are difficult to remember. To group related passwords, create keyrings.
Create and manage PGP keys.
Create and manage SSH keys.
More Information
Passwords and Keys — Use Passwords and Keys to remember your passwords, and to create and manage PGP and SSH keys.
[ From the Zorin Manual overview this is too complex for its scope (and my brains! LOL! ]
Screenshot - for capturing your desktop, window, selection. System Monitor - this is the GNU/Linux equivalent of Task Manager. Terminal – Command Line Interface