We Ask, You Answer: Your Apps, Online

January 7 by | 13 comments | Polls | Tags: , ,
Question Mark

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer.  The following week, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community — and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This week’s question is:

  • If you could have any of the applications you use available as an online app, what would it be?

Let us know your answer in the comments.

Dustin M. Wax is a contributing editor and project manager at lifehack.org. He is also a freelance writer and university instructor in Las Vegas, NV, where he lives with his partner and three children. His personal site can be found at dustinwax.com.

  • http://travors.com travors

    The Palm Desktop Suite, as long as it was available to sync with my pda offline too. I still don’t trust online apps to be always available when I need them.

  • Ras

    I’m currently satisfied with Things Beta at
    http://culturedcode.com/things, it has everything I want. I hope the
    developers add a sync option to my IPhone, and then it will be a “Kick Ass” GTD app for me. If I can publish to the web it will then be awsome

  • Kathryn

    Dreamweaver. It’s the only piece of software that I don’t use enough to justify buying, but whose free alternatives (online or off) just leave me disatisfied and frustrated. I wish someone would do for DW what FotoFlex and The Gimp do for Photoshop.

  • Jeff

    I would like an on-line calendar/contact/task program that is as complex and feature-filled as Outlook. I am tied to Outlook because of its great contact book, tasks, and calendar with many options. I also need to sync with my Treo.

  • http://reseize.com Roland Engelhardt

    I dont want any offline app. All should be online apps with the possibility of working offline with them too.

  • Brian Head

    Open source SugarCRM server. I have published it to the web so I can get to it from anywhere. I have added the outlook sync plugin so I can create a “todo” on the fly from my inbox. It tracks all my major projects, and project tasks along with all my business opportunities. I am a software developer so it tracks versions and bugs for me as well.

  • http://www.RossGoodman.com Ross Goodman

    I have “portable” ie USB versions of all of my apps.
    I have online versions of most.
    The main one that is missing is FreeMind, mind mapping software. I start most projects/thoughts/processes in FreeMind.

    Ross
    http://www.RossGoodman.com

  • http://fullfilth.blogspot.com/ faizal

    Siebel

  • http://teamoverkill.com/blog/ LD

    Nothing unless it can utilize Google Gears or some equivalent. Online is great…until I’m on an airplane and need to get some work done.

  • Chris White

    I think I’d go with OneNote, I actually don’t use it much right now because it’s only off line. I’m impressed with Zoho’s Notebook and I really like Google’s–in fact, I use Google Notebook as an online collection tool that then gets processed into OneNote–but I need something that syncs.

    Another idea would be the Zune Marketplace. I work on a Mac at work and a XP64 machine at my labs, but neither of them are compatible with the Zune.

  • http://nlphilia.net/ Michael DeBusk

    Quicken. Unless Intuit wants to build a Linux version. Quicken is the one app for which I haven’t found a good Linux replacement.

  • wondersz1

    Here’s a great list of Web-based services. If you feel enthusiastic about web apps, that’ll be of use to you – check out http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm
    Also you may want to play with Zoho services, Google Notebook looks quite promising.

  • Dorin

    I think today you need rezolve the most important things I agree for you because life is short and nobody wants to spend our times people who talking and talking and never thing.I become at one conclusion the most important in life its a friend who all time help you in the situation and sometimes with your friend you can discuss about your problem I know you need to be very good to be a friend and that I say in my mind I can do that and God help me to have a friend to help me anytime and anywhere in the situation.