Comments on: Switching from Desktop to Online Tools

By: Core Dump

Core Dump — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:30:24 +0000

[...] from desktop to online tools Tom Johnson has a post about switching from desktop to online tools. I’ve blogged about this quite a bit myself, and I use several online tools regularly, including [...]

By: The Get Paid To Write Mega Link Love Fest : Get Paid to Write Online

The Get Paid To Write Mega Link Love Fest : Get Paid to Write Online — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:08:20 +0000

[...] Switching from Desktop to Online Tools from I’d Rather Be Writing [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:57:33 +0000

Thanks eldavo. I think I saw that link the other day and was impressed by the research and compilation of those tools. It’s definitely a good link to add here.

By: eldavo

eldavo — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:12:44 +0000

Hi Tom,
I just came across this link and remembered your post here:

The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need
http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/

By: Shaun Kelly

Shaun Kelly — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:28:17 +0000

Definitely the wave of the future. Another benefit I've found is being able to pull up many of my online tools in my BlackBerry browser on the go. My additions to the list: PBWiki is a great hosted Wiki. I'm setting it up for lightweight project management tasks at my company. I use Stikkit to keep my notes, calendar, contacts, and to-dos organized. It has a great natural language parser that makes it easy to toss data in and let Stikkit figure out what it's supposed to be.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:00:56 +0000

Thanks Clyde. That's an interesting list. My favorite is the Random Note Generator. That might come in handy for something. Exactly what I'm not sure, aside from ransom notes. One other noteworthy tool there is Zoho. Zoho seems to have a more comprehensive line of tools than Google even, with a wiki, web conferencing, CRM, and PowerPoint. I haven't experimented much with Zoho. I do like Google's email and RSS reader tools. Who knows, maybe Zoho's are even better. Somehow Zoho is still pretty obscure, while most people have integrated Google into their regular vocabulary.

By: Clyde

Clyde — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:17:07 +0000

Tom,

Here’s a list of web based apps that, if you haven’t come across it already, I think you will find interesting.

Enjoy!

By: Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor

Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:21:45 +0000

@Janet Majure – I agree Gmail has some creepy things but I find it is the best mail service I’ve seen yet. It has changed so profoundly the way we use email that is hard to imagine how to do this on the traditional interfaces.

Coupling this with my previous comment, and in agreement to Tom’s response to me, I’ll say that it is about time to have a webmail tool that follows the Gmail Philosophy and can be downloaded and installed on your own server.

I would happily install such a tool on my host and have “my own Gmail” to handle my accounts but, if such a tool exists is unknown to me and “Squirrel Mail” and its fellows just aren’t good enough

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:09:35 +0000

EyeOS is just a proof-of-concept as it stands today. Supposedly versions preceding 1.0 had tons of apps and games which were unfortunately rendered unusable due to major kernel rewrites.

Browsing through the forums reveals a very enthusiastic and responsive dev team and enthusiast community. It’s very cool to see how thoroughly they programmed things like user security, a streamlined GUI, and third-party app compatibility.

I think the EyeOS team’s top priority is to make a very stable, simple web-based OS platform. Although usability isn’t #1 on the list I’m astounded at the fantastic job they’ve done. For example, I love how the login box shakes horizontally, telling you “no”, when you enter the wrong password.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:45:54 +0000

What others match the functionality of Gmail, though? I haven’t tried them all, but Google has been far and away the best choice for me. Besides, I enjoy the spam recipes in my trash bin. (Inside humor for Gmail users… in your Spam folder, the “customized” news item is always a recipe using spam.)