Doing everything online
March 9, 2007
(Last revision: 4/9/07 at 4pm EDT - added Idiomag and Jimdo)
Earlier, I wrote several posts about doing online what you normally would have done via a program on your computer — i.e., word processing, creating spreadsheets and presentations, editing photos, database management, etc. Instead of purchasing, downloading, installing, and / or updating individual programs on your computer (like Microsoft Word and Excel, Adobe Photoshop, etc), you can now go online via your favorite Internet browser and do the same thing. Often for free, and you wouldn’t need to worry about downloading updates for these applications.
Below is a list of online applications that are among my favorite or that I would recommend for common every-day work normally done on the computer. More and more web services are offering similar online applications, and I add / edit this list accordingly.
Communicating:
- Emails: Google Gmail or Fastmail.fm
- Instant messaging: Meebo (related blog post)
Documents and office tasks:
- Word processing: Zoho Writer or Google Docs (I prefer Zoho Writer)
- Spreadsheets: Zoho Sheets or Google Docs
- Presentations: Zoho Show
- Project management: Zoho Projects
- Database management: Zoho Creator
Multi-media:
- Photo editing: Picnik (related blog post)
- Converting media to different formats: Zamzar
- Digital scrapbooking: Scrapblog
- Video editing and splicing: Jumpcut
- Website design: Weebly or Jimdo
- Magazine design: IdioMag
Other:
- To-do and planning: Zoho Planner or Remember The Milk
- Tax preparation: Turbotax.com (related blog post)
- Party planning: MyPunchbowl (see related blog post #1 and blog post #2)
March 9, 2007 at 7:26 pm
[...] 9th, 2007 [Note: this info is also contained in a page attached to my blog, called Doing everything online - check the right column of my blog under “Pages with more [...]
April 9, 2007 at 2:29 pm
[...] 9th, 2007 Added three more web services to my Doing Everything Online page : Idio (design your magazine online), Jimdo (easily create webpages), and Evite (the [...]
April 9, 2007 at 9:10 pm
[...] despite repeated requests. These users cannot access their emails nor stored files. I had recommended Gmail as an online email solution. I still do — I know that millions of people have Gmail [...]
June 11, 2007 at 6:59 am
[...] repeatedly extolled the virtues of moving online — doing word processing online, doing your spreadsheets online, doing your taxes online, etc. [...]
October 24, 2007 at 12:58 am
Thanks for the list.
:)
November 10, 2007 at 8:31 pm
This site tells you all about stuff you can do online.
http://everythingonlineblog.blogspot.com/
(updated frequently, recently went online, not many posts yet, will be alot soon)
November 19, 2007 at 9:04 pm
[...] written several times in the past about MyPunchBowl, and recommended it as the best party-planning website. Not one to rest on its own laurels, the developers of [...]
January 16, 2008 at 4:19 pm
i want vpad
January 28, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hello,
can u drop me a line using my email. Thanks
Eric
March 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm
[...] and writes about all things technology. One of the pages on his site that I really like is the “Doing Everything Online.” I hope he’ll continue to grow this page with more resources for his [...]
March 4, 2008 at 3:59 pm
[...] now, a bona fide list to show you don’t have to buy software to do much of anything these [...]