Top 10 Online Applications
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In the beginning, when graphical user interfaces shed light on the dark and complex world of command prompts, programs aimed at user input became available. With the advent of the MS Office Suite, you can create text documents, spreadsheets, and even presentations with simple editing commands. Photoshop is the most popular image editing software to date, right alongside iTunes as the most popular software to organize your music in. But all these programs come at a price, and we are not talking nickels and dimes.
There is hope, and this comes in the world of open source, the world of Web 2.0. In this list, and many more to come, you will fine great online alternatives to popular software. No fees and no downloads is what makes these alternatives fast, easy, and accessible.
Google Docs lets users create word documents, spreadsheets and presentations as MS Office does, all for free with signup.
Serves as the source for all your instant messaging needs. With no need to download software to run your favorite instant messaging applications, Meebo runs Aim, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk in your web browser.
Splashup is an online photo image editing application that contains similar photo editing tools found in Photosho. Integrates easily with top photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and even Splashup, itself.
A good alternative to relying on external hard drives and flash memory to save all your files. This online storage application saves all your audio, video, photos, and documents forever onto their servers. Stream and view all your files instantly once uploaded.
A nice application that allows you to upload your entire music library and stream it from anywhere online.
A fast and powerful online calculator that lets you create natural equations, have results appear as you type, perform advanced calculations and many other techniques that rival Excel.
A free alternative to creating Flash based content for non designers and programmers. Wix creates search engine friendly content that can be integrated into Myspace, Youtube, and Flickr.
Create text documents accessible on any computer, format and style your documents any way and save them as a text document, HTML document or as a PDF.
Convert files from your computer or from online to any document, image, video, or audio format. Let’s users email their converted files, too.
With over 4GB of space and counting, GMail is the best online email client to use. Send multiple files of different sizes, tag and archive emails and never have to worry about deleting them again.