Do it online
A followup on yesterday’s post about using web-based apps, here’s a list of software categories and some of your online options.
- Word processor: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Zoho Writer
- Spreadsheet: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Zoho Sheet, EditGrid, Num Sum
- Presentations: Zoho Show, Empressr, Thumbstacks, Spresent
- Database: Zoho Creator, Lazybase
- Web pages/publishing: What’s a web page anymore? See all of the above, plus Google Page Creator, and wikis, such as Wikispaces, StikiPad, or PBwiki, and blogs, such as WordPress, edublogs, and Blogger
- Calendar: 30 Boxes, Google Calendar, CalendarHub, Planzo, Kiko, HipCal
- Instant Messaging: Meebo
- Email: Gmail, Yahoo! Mail
- RSS Reader: Google Reader, Bloglines, Rojo
- Bookmark management: del.icio.us, BlinkList, Diigo
- Photo editors: Picnik, Snipshot, pixer.us, Pixenate, Phixr, Fauxto
- Multimedia conversion: Hey!Watch, Media Convert, Zamzar, vixy.net
- Todo’s/lists: Remember The Milk, voo2do, hosted Getting Things Done (GTD) implementations, such as Vitalist, Nozbe, iCommit, Tracks
Note that these are only some of your options; to see more, check out Go2Web20 or All Things Web 2.0.
