# What do you use your computer / phone for?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-computer-phone-for/724581 "2015-07-08T15:23:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-computer-phone-for/724581/21 "2015-07-09T05:45:59Z")

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Missing big categories.

Security software - everything from the free stuff to VPN.  
Programming/coding software

On the more specialized side, I use something called Scrivener to help with longer manuscripts.

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