Thanks to the wonderful web apps that we're seeing today. And some of them are really useful and giving me enough reason to replace some of the desktop apps that I using. This might not be applicable to all of you as it really depends on your needs and situation.
Here are the reason why I like and prefer to use them
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Preserve hard disk space
I know hard disk are cheap nowadays but this might not be true to anyone like me. I am using a laptop with 40GB hard disk and I have both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it leaving me a small free disk space for other installations and for my download activity everyday which I later transfer to my external hard disk.
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Maintain my system to be as clean, fast and light as possible.
Every time we get to use a newly install windows system, we feel the system is fast to boot, response, and shutdown but as soon as you begin to install something on it, it becomes slow.
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Portable
I can access my documents, listen to my music playlist and watch my favorite music from home and work or any computer that has internet connection
| Web App | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Buxfer | Finding a free personal finance desktop application is hard, but on the web there's a lot of it which are really good and my perosonal favorite is buxfer. |
| CrunchyRoll, YouTube | These really saves me a lot of disk space and time. I no longer need to download and keep music videos and animes in my hard disk |
| Delicious | Way much better than the bookmarking features that the browers has to offer today. |
| Gmail, Yahoo Mail | No more email client software on my system. No need to delete emails, and to do backups( and I believe they do it better than me) |
| Google Docs | I am just a casual word processing and spreadsheet user, so Google Docs is more than enough to me and offers online storage for me which makes my data portable and makes sharing your files easy. And this is where it saves me a lot of disk space, as we know both Microsoft Office and Open Office requires a lot of disk space. |
| Imeem | With this I can easily access and organize my music playlist from home and from work place, and also saves me a lot of disk space. It really change my way of collecting, listening, and organizing music. I love this app! |
| Jjot | It lets you easily compose, organize, and search for your notes. Veryful useful and productive! |
| Meebo | Saves me from installing gTalk and Yahoo Messenger. And the best thing I really like is that Yahoo Messenger currently doesn't do online achieving of my chat logs and meebo has this feature. |
| Picasa Web | Helps me share my photos with friends and keeps a collection of wallpapers, interesting images that I don't want to takes my disk space. |
Did I miss any web apps that could possibly replace the desktop apps I am using? Thanks.
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I like jjot and used to use it, but over time I felt the whizz bang that made its UI look neat was too distracting for real note taking. So I went ahead and wrote my own application!
http://www.ayenotes.com does something similar for taking notes online, though the take is slightly different. Many online note taking sites like this focus on the presentation of note taking (fonts, format, display) and not on the actual note taking itself such as shorthand to longhand conversion and the ability to locate notes by tags and contexts. This is where AyeNotes really shines. Using AyeNote’s shorthand to longhand conversion, I can prevent typos when I am typing, create templates for certain types of notes, and use simple keystrokes to jot down detailed information which I can then store online and tag, download locally, or even email to my friends. This works really for me at work and for a class I am taking. Check it out.
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