Comments on: 11 Web Applications that are Ready for Primetime

By: sasha

sasha — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:16:44 +0000

Marcus,
it's been a while since you posted this article, but if you are still looking for online outliners, try http://checkvist.com, it has some notable keyboard support (create a hierarchical list just as in any desktop editor), and a simple user interface.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:40:37 +0000

For online budgeting, try SpendingProfile.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:56:03 +0000

Nice article – It’s a good summation of some really good software.

For image editing, there’s an open source program that is every bit as good as Photoshop:
It’s called GIMP – just go to http://www.gimp.org.

For some other useful (free) software, visit this guy:
http://www.jasonchen.com/free_software/

By: Eliza D

Eliza D — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:52:46 +0000

Marcus,
Good roundup. I will give my support for Basecamp. I use their software to manage three of our non-profit’s projects and it works well with our needs and budget.

By: Jonathan Nelson

Jonathan Nelson — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:17:16 +0000

“Online Outline- I love Omnigraffle, but don’t get to use it as often as I’d like since I’m always going back and forth between Mac and PC. I would really like to see an online outliner that had similar functionality. I’ve tried Sproutliner and some of it’s offshoots but found them to be pretty lacking.”

I’ve used an online tool called Gliffy and it works amazingly well. Check it out.

http://gliffy.com/

By: WiredJournal » Blog Archive » Web applications that are ready for primetime

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:15:04 +0000

[...] Nice list of 11 web applications that are pushing the limits. The author points out: [...]

By: Textual Relations » My web app experiences

Textual Relations » My web app experiences — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:41:51 +0000

[...] Ultimately, my decision was based on the fact that my laptop is getting pretty old nowadays, and whatever software I can possibly get rid of to help it out, I will. It was also partly inspired by this article at Best Tool For the Job I used to use Mozilla’s apps, Thunderbird and Calendar, but not Gmail and Google Calendar have replaced those (I’ve always had Gmail, but only recently set up my university account to forward to Gmail). [...]

By: soundacious

soundacious — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:38:29 +0000

I finally discovered the joys of GMail just this week. I knew it existed for some time, I’ve even had an account for the past year … but I finally grokked how to get it to rock.

Everything anywhere, what a wunnerful phrase …

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:08:14 +0000

stefan,
I agree with you–I probably misrepresented what Last.fm does–it’s not somewhere to upload your music and listen to it and thus should not be listed in a post talking about moving from desktop to web apps. Like you said it’s about the community and recommendations.

Don’t get me wrong though, I love Last.fm –I’ve used it for quite awhile

http://www.last.fm/user/zzzmarcus/

By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:19:26 +0000

marcus,

great post, i agree in most cases – but think (obviously, otherwise i wouldnt work for last.fm) you did not quite get the point of what we are working on. its not about “completely replacing desktop music applications in the near future”.
its about what you are LISTENING to, no matter what digital source – on your pc, mp3, mobile phone, you name it.
its about SHARING with others (and yourself, remind me what was the song back in that holiday, 10 years ago).
and its about DISCOVERY, cause the magical sauce of the last.fm community keeps you up with a constant flow of new music – based on your personal taste.
we are learning out of 10m songs a day – give it a try.

thanks stefan