A few days ago I posted a online collaboration comparison and someone sent me an suggestion to check out Jive Software. They offer three online web applications:
So you’re travelling much or simply tired of opening your personal snail mail at home? Just forward it to Online Postal Mail. They instantly scan the mail and present it to you online.
They scan the outside of each envelope so you can see what it is, and then you make choices about each piece. You can have it opened and the contents scanned so you can read it right away, or recycle it at the touch of a button. You can also choose to shred private information, or even archive important documents. You can still get the original item if you want it either to your home address or forward the original or a copy to someone else.
What about pricing? Well, if you’re receive less than 35 mails a month, the smallest plan would be enough and that would cost you $9.95/month.
Online PDF Converter convert MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats, CHM and HLP files to PDF. They also have tools for PDF -> Word/Excel.
Since we’re working on the Mini File Server at the momeny, we decided to have some kind of online collaboration tool out there that would enable us to do project plans etc.
His conclusion? For individuals looking to manage projects without spending a small amount on monthly subscription costs, the less polished activeCollab application does provides the basics for managing and interacting with clients.
On the flip-side, anyone who is willing to part with a small amount through a monthly subscription recouped in an hour or less of work, definitely give Basecamp or Goplan a try. With Goplan’s recent public launch with features sure to give Basecamp a solid run, users now have more options. Which service will work for you? Give each of them a solid run-through and decide for yourself. Will you side with the proverbial favorite from 37signals - Basecamp? Or, will your business be better served by Webreakstuff’s Goplan?
If you haven’t watched Al Gores movie yet - make sure to watch it! And while you’re at it - do something. Like switch your light bulbs to low energy ones. It doesn’t only save the environment but money too.
Yahoo has a pretty cool web application showing you the top states in the US for selling energy saving lightbulbs. Check it out.
Dabble DB is maybe something you want to consider if you want to build cusotmizable database applications. It’s very easy to use and completely on the web so you can share it easily. I’ts not a spreadsheet application - you can view the data from hundreds of angles all with point and click simplicity.
Best way is to watch the 7 minute introduction and if you want to see it in more action, check this screencast out which is regarding charts and maps.
Pixenate is an online photo editor. It has a bunch of features as you can see below. Simply upload your photo, edit it, and either save to disk or upload to Flickr. No need to register, just upload an run!
Time To Meet is another service to find a time for a meeting without wasting time - no more sendning e-mails back and forth.
It does timezones very well and also synchronizes with your personal calendar (Outlook, iCal, Google etc) - but then you have to go Pro for about $1/month.
Renkoo is a service that lets you arrange when and where to do fun things with friends. You can use their website, instant messaging, text messaging, or email to plan things together.
I used to use a simple spreadsheet e-mailing it around. Then I moved to EditGrid, but it’s still very manual work… maybe this is a better alternative?
Simply invite some friends and let the planning begin!
* You can start with some friends and invite more as you go.
* You don’t need to start off knowing exactly when and where the event will occur.
* You and your friends can work out the details by chatting.
Renkoo helps you decide when and where to get together. Chat with your friends using Renkoo to figure it out. Renkoo lets you communicate using email, text, IM, or all three to decide a time and place.
Roll your own “_____-aholic.com” with EditGrid’s dynamic images feature
If you recall Alexaholic (now Statsaholic) you’ll know how mashing-up
images can work like a charm. It provided several input boxes for
submitting domain names, and then load the traffic ranking comparison
charts from Alexa.
With EditGrid’s dynamic image feature, we support users to do something
similar, see the following demo spreadsheets:
Let’s go business for a while. Office Interactive offers some online applications to serve the needs of small/medium sized businesses.
They offer different packages (one of the Collaboration packages are free) and includes functionality like documents, contacts, calendars, tasks, links etc.
Ok, I confess, not totally uninstalled but Sharpcast is still a pretty cool tool on the web. Most of us have hundreds of pictures stored on the local harddrive. What if it breaks. You have backups? Do you backup it up every day? Well, most of us don’t.
Sharpcast is a service that lets you have your pictures online. It makes sure to synchronize all your local pictures with the online store and whenever you make any changes, the changed photo will be uploaded automatically in the background.
You can create albums for you and your friends to look at and you can even send the pictures from your windows mobile to their site.
Anyway, if you’re into photos and have problems organizing them and want to have them backed up - check it out!
I’ve talked about having some kind of “browser appliance” to replace your desktop computer. So far - not that many hardware appliances seems to fit my needs. But here’s an interesting alternative. I run VMware (either Player or Server which are free or Workstation) and I have several virtual machines running, either Windows or some distribution of Linux.
To get you started on VMware and such appliances, here’s a quick guide to get you startedin just a few minutes.
The quickest way is to get the Browser Appliance which is the Ubuntu distribution running Firefox. Just download the appliance, open it up in VMware and start it. When it boots up you get a Firefox icon and off you go.
So now you got yourself a “surf station”. No need to re-install. If you make a mistake and crash the virtual machine, simply download the VMware image again and replace the one you have. Now wouldn’t it be good to have this functionality in a hardware appliance?
Another good thing is that you don’t have to worry that much about malware, spyware or viruses. First off - it’s Linux. And secondly, even though the virtual computer gets infected, it won’t spread to your host system!
Have you ever re-installed your PC just because you had “too much stuff installed”. You simply wanted a clean desktop as it looked from day 1. Well, the whole thought of my site is to uninstall everything and keep everything online so why do I need to bother with my local desktop computer? All I actually want is an web browser and an Internet connection.
I was inspired by the following post by Max Limpag where he gives you an overview of the web desktops out there.
So maybe now I need is just some minimal thin client with a webbrowser and if I need a complete “desktop” with all my applications - no need to mix Google Apps, Windows Live Apps and so on. Check my web desktops for more articles on the subject.
Online PDF Converter convert MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats, CHM and HLP files to PDF. They also have tools for PDF -> Word/Excel.
Ok, I confess, not totally uninstalled but Sharpcast is still a pretty cool tool on the web. Most of us have hundreds of pictures stored on the local harddrive. What if it breaks. You have backups? Do you backup it up every day? Well, most of us don’t.
Sharpcast is a service that lets you have your pictures online. It makes sure to synchronize all your local pictures with the online store and whenever you make any changes, the changed photo will be uploaded automatically in the background.
You can create albums for you and your friends to look at and you can even send the pictures from your windows mobile to their site.
Anyway, if you’re into photos and have problems organizing them and want to have them backed up - check it out!
Have you ever re-installed your PC just because you had “too much stuff installed”. You simply wanted a clean desktop as it looked from day 1. Well, the whole thought of my site is to uninstall everything and keep everything online so why do I need to bother with my local desktop computer? All I actually want is an web browser and an Internet connection.
I was inspired by the following post by Max Limpag where he gives you an overview of the web desktops out there.
So maybe now I need is just some minimal thin client with a webbrowser and if I need a complete “desktop” with all my applications - no need to mix Google Apps, Windows Live Apps and so on. Check my web desktops for more articles on the subject.
Have you ever got the question from a non-technical friend if you thought he/she would manage to create a website for themselves? And you knew “no way” since the person didn’t know much about HTML nor how to upload the site using FTP once it was done in some HTML editor?
Office Live could be an alternative for them. No need for HTML or hosting plans or uploading via FTP - easy! Best of it all - it’s free, even with the domain name. Of course, the free package is limited but…
Want to see more? Check the demos out - links are available here.
While living more online and uninstalled, you have to register at more and more websites. I suggest you get two e-mail addresses, one that you use for registering at sites, mailinglists, forums and so on. This will probably end up on in a spamdatabase in the end antway. Then get annother one for personal e-mails.
One suggestion could be to use the bugmenot.com, mytrashmail.com or spambox online services. They offer you to get a temporary e-mail address - completely free and no registration required. Just enter the e-mail address of your choice and it will show you the e-mails send to that address. Perfect for temporary e-mails and you don’t really care about the privacy - you just want that e-mail without giving out your real one or register for a new e-mail account.
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