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20 Great Web Applications Alternatives to Usual Desktop Software

02 Jan

Desktop Software has been a great help in our computer work purposes. They serve as our working tool on our projects, designs, hobbies, interest etc. But web appsÂ have set a great trend over the web. Developers of web applications created applications that areÂ likelyÂ powerful as theÂ desktop software but create more great output and easiness. Â The best thing is that you donâ€™t need to install any of these web apps to use. Just browse over the web and visit these great web applications.

In this article, Iâ€™ll be presenting 20 great web applications alternatives to your usual desktop software. Hope you will love it.

1. Google Docs

Google Docs serves as your online productivity tool. It will let you create your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more online writing tool.

Alternative for :

Microsoft Office
Open Office

2. Meebo

Meebo is a web platform for your mostly chat applications.Â You can login your IM accounts at the same time or individual accounts.

Alternative for:

Facebook Chat
Yahoo Messenger
AIM
Windows Live Messenger

3. Slide Rocket

Presentations are really vital tool for business, education , projects and more. With Slide Rocket, a web presentation tool that allows you to create your own presentation. It presents some of the features in PowerPoint.

Alternative for:

Microsoft PowerPoint
OpenOffice Impress

4. Aviary

Aviary is a powerful web creation tools for photo editing, logos, web templates, color palettes , audio editing and more.Â There list includes Phoenix: Image Editor, Toucan: Color Editor, Myna: Audio Editor, Peacock: Effects Editor, Raven: Vector Editor, Falcon: Image Markup andÂ Roc: Music Creator.

Alternative for:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Soundbooth

5. Mint

Are you having a hard time to manage your money? Then Mint is all you need. It is a web tool to access to your free personal financial and online management tool.Â It will help you to organize your financial accounts, set your budgets needs, and put up your savings.

Alternative for:

Quicken

6. JayCut

JayCut is a web video editing software. With a user-friendly environment, it will let you create your videos, add and edit clips, transitions, effects, audio, download, export in YoutubeÂ and more.

Alternative for:

Windows Movie Maker
Ulead
Other Video Editing Software

7. WobZip

Wobzip is an online tool that makes you uncompressed your files on the fly. It supports different compression format such as ZIP, RAR, and more zip formats. It has also an active scanner that scan your compressed files before unzipping it.

Alternative for:

Unzipping Softwares

8. Zamzar

Zamzar is a powerful online file conversion tool. It converts various formats for documents, image, music, video, e-book, compressed files, cad formats. Just follow 4 easy steps to convert your files instantly.

Alternative for:

File Conversion Software

9. Hulu

Hulu is a video/TV streaming website that lets you watch your favorite tv shows right at your computer. If you missed some of your favorites episode you can just tune in here and enjoy watching.Â Hulu is a US exclusive website, but if you are outside the US and trying to access it, you can try this link.

Alternative for:

TV Tuner Software

10. TokBox

If you love to video chat, TokBox is a great online video chatting applications. For free users, you can chat up to 20 people. Just simply sign up,invite your friends and start video chatting.

Alternative for:

Video Chat

11. Moof

Moof is an online web streaming music online for your favorite music. It is like bringing your all favorite music rolled into one place. One of the great feature is you can export your iTunes library and put it into web so you will never missed out your favorite tune.

Alternative for:

iTunes
Music Streaming Software

12. ESET Online Virus Scanner

Everyone wants to be secure in terms of viruses and malware. ESET Online Virus Scanner deep scan yourÂ PCÂ usingÂ your web browser.Â The good thing is that you donâ€™t need to install the software and it is always up to date.

Alternative for:

Anti Virus Software

13. Bitlet

Bitlet is a web application that lets you download your torrents. Just upload .torrent file on your computer or direct Bitlet to torrent and Bitlet will do it for you.

Alternative for:

BitTorrent Client

14. icloud

icloud is a web operating system over the web. It is like bringing your ownÂ desktop and files running in your web browser that includes an office suite, media player, chat client, games, productivity tool, utility applications and more. Now you wonâ€™t worry that you are working in a different PC.

Alternative for:

Operating System

15. Splashup

Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager.Â It will let you manage your images and save it in different format. Various features that are likely with Photoshop.

Alternative for:

Image Editing Tool

16. Wufoo

Wufoo is a great building tool for your forms, invitationsÂ and survey applications. It makes your collecting of data much easier and in customize way.

Alternative for:

Survey Creating Tool

17. Google Voice

Google Voice makes a huge deal in international calling communication. It delivers various features such as voicemail transcription, one number calling, sms to email, block callers, screen callers, conference call and more. Bringing your all phone into your gmail account given that you are in US and Canada.

Alternative for:

Skype

18. movavi

movavi is an online video files converter. It supports multiple formats that you need for your videos. In just 3 simple step, you will get your converted video file and watch.

Alternative for:

Videora
Xilisoft Video Converter
Other Video Converter Tool

19. HootSuite

HootSuite is a web apps for your socialÂ networking experience. Updating and monitoring your socialÂ activities such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress and Ping.fmÂ willÂ be easy.It is also good for businesses that tracks statistics of their business over the web.

Alternative for:

Social Network Tool
Statistics Tracking Tool

20. Balsamiq

Balsamiq is a web wireframing tool that is great for web designer and developers. It will make your drawing more in detailed and rearrange it easily.Â It is a great tool to collaborate your team work.

Hope you will enjoy this great web applications. If there are more great web apps that we missed, please tell us so and we will love to update it.

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5 Unusual Ways to Use Dropbox You Might Not Have Thought Of

18 Dec

Dropbox has just been upgraded to version 1.0, so we thought weâ€™d take a look at some great ways to use it that might not have occurred to you.

A free Dropbox account allows users to store up to 2GB worth of files and access them from any other Linux, Mac or Windows machine running the Dropbox application. Or, those files can be accessed from any browser.

In fact, the new 1.0 version of Dropbox is so tremendously useful, I decided to invest the $9.99 per month to increase its capacity to 50GB. Dropbox can perform some slick tricks. Here are my five favorite examples:

Chat Logs

Many chat programs let you change the location of the chat log. Clients such as Pidgin can be modified to save those chats wherever youâ€™d like, so point to a folder within the Dropbox for complete portability.

Multiple chat client Digsby is especially useful when you save its chat logs in Dropbox, and there was a portable version available until just a few weeks ago.

Itâ€™s still possible to make this happen, but it takes a bit of hacking. If youâ€™re so inclined, it might be worth it â€” it lets you save all your Facebook, AIM and Google Talk chat logs in the same place.

Gaming Saves

Most games let you designate where youâ€™re going to save your progress, so why not put that saved game data in Dropbox? Then, no matter what computer youâ€™re using (as long as you have the game installed there), you can pick up where you left off.

Documents Folder

Have a group of documents youâ€™re always working on and adding to? Place them all in a Dropbox documents folder and you can modify them at home, work, and on the road. This works especially well when youâ€™re writing with a team, allowing you to see when someone else has begun working on a document.

Teamwork

We like to shoot videos, and it often works out where one of us is shooting and another is editing. One of us drops the unedited video clips in a shared Dropbox folder, while the other picks them up and edits them as soon as theyâ€™re synced. Then, someone else can share the finished videos on YouTube. This works especially well if you spring for the 50GB upgrade.

Any App With a Watch Folder

Any application that lets you create a watch folder is fertile ground for Dropbox. Hereâ€™s an idea: if youâ€™re a Photoshop user, create a watch folder in Dropbox, leave your powerful PC running Photoshop at home. Then, when you drop a photo into that folder when youâ€™re on the road, itâ€™s automatically processed to the dimensions you designate back at the mother ship. You can also use this idea for BitTorrent, dropping torrents into a watch folder and having them download on your home machine while youâ€™re at work.

Weâ€™ve grown to adore Dropbox in the past year, and now that itâ€™s reached version 1.0, its subtle improvements make it even more appealing. To see for yourself, download it here, and find out more tips and tricks here.