What is your most-used web application?What is your most-used web application? Fairly straightforward question. It shouldn't be too hard to guess what will come out on top, but I'm interested to see what else gets high votes.
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Sadly, Google Reader [2]. I waste way too much time reading feeds.
[1] http://www.google.com/readeris so good for personal syncing between my laptop, desktop and mobile devices. Also great on collaboration projects being able to easily share files between users. Simple and super easy to use.
[1] http://www.dropbox.com/Because you don't have to install any special software for editing and viewing your documents. Multiple users can edit documents in real time also!
[1] http://docs.google.comBrilliant feature of google maps [2] is to find a direction from one place to another which details the route , distance , time takes to travel using car,public transport...And almost my favorite in this app is it also gives " Suggested routes [3]".
Hope its been useful by many travellers and path finders :)
[1] http://maps.google.com/As a programmer, I find myself using RegExr [2] a lot.
[1] http://gskinner.com/RegExrI'm a coder- I'm either browsing logs on my projects, tweaking and contributing builds to the Homebrew Package Manager [2] or browsing around to see what neat software projects other people are working on.
I daresay even Gmail takes a backseat to GitHub [3] in my case.
[1] http://www.github.comI use Delicious [2] a lot (specially for searching) and RefactorMyCode.com [3].
[1] http://delicious.com/On April 27, 2011, Delicious announced the site was sold to Avos Systems, a company created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. - Black Horus
Grooveshark [2] to listen your favorite music wherever you are.
[1] http://listen.grooveshark.com/It's constantly on in my house. I know there are alternatives but it has great range and a fun API.
[1] http://last.fmIt really comes in handy when you're hanging out with friends. Just fire it up on the Android and you've got music. No pesky CDs, music libraries, stereo systems, etc...
[1] http://www.pandora.comI use jsFiddle [2] all the time. It's great for prototyping a simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript page and sharing it.
[1] http://jsfiddle.net/Remember the Milk [2] - It's awesome. Easy to use, I can email tasks & lists to my RTM account, repeating, everything is better! Used to use todoist, but RTM is WAY better.
[1] http://www.rememberthemilk.com/I use Pivotal Tracker [2] a lot.
[1] http://www.pivotaltracker.comGives me Gmail, Reader, etc. on one page.
From there I too often click links to Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Web Apps, Pro Webmaster. Sigh, maybe I should go do work.
[1] http://www.google.com/igGoogle Wave [1] ( soon to be removed [2])
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_WaveI hang around the JavaScript tag a lot over on Stack Overflow [2], this comes in handy (and its editor is a little less buggy than jsFiddle's).
[1] http://jsbin.comTo get this data I signed up with Wakoopa [1] tracker. They track my app usage time and trends. By the data I see in Wakoopa [2], I spend most of my time in Google Reader. Sad facts.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WakoopaI got in on the beta of Threadsy [1] and absolutely love it. Does all my e-mail and social networking together in a single page, and it does it well.
[1] http://threadsy.comGreat bug tracking / wiki / source code management tool. Albeit it needs to be self-hosted.
Mint.com [1] It keeps track of all my Bank accounts, credit cards, student loans, paypal account (my roommate uses paypal to pay his share of the rent).
[1] http://mint.comWow, I am really surprised no one has mentioned this one already. I have this turned on literally all-day long.
I know there's Google Chat as part of Gmail, I'm referring to the stand-alone application.
[1] http://talk.google.comBoth through the web app and apps like Net News Wire and Reeder.
[1] http://www.google.com/readerGoogle News [1] is the main source about what is happening around the globe. After removing the uninteresting sections and adding your own, there is no need of visiting any local news services.
[1] http://news.google.comWell the one I keep up-to-date is librarything [1] for my books. I don't use it every week, but I do keep it current.
I don't count: - Gmail or Reader because they are my mail and feed clients, in the same way as I don't count Firefox. - Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter because I use the iPhone apps. - Amazon - app again.
[1] http://www.librarything.com/[1] http://help.hootsuite.com/entries/160932-what-is-hootsuiteHootSuite is the Social Media Dashboard! Rather than being a social network, HootSuite allows you to connect to multiple social networks from one website. (source: HootSuite Help Desk [1])
thesixtyone.com [1] is an independent music radio/social gathering place. Is recently had a total overhaul. When I remember to open it, this runs basically all day and I interact/hear songs/comment throughout the day.
[1] http://thesixtyone.comI created it just for having a mail account to use for registering with different user accounts, but it has also been my personal mail box.
The spam filter is quite good.
tDash
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Disclaimer: While this may suspiciously sound like my own trumpet, allow me to explain.
Google Reader was my best source of news and information. Read item, press SPACEBAR, jump to the next unread item. Rinse and repeat.
Until Twitter happened. And then I created tDash to relive the Goog-Reader experience, with the personal touch that Twitter affords.
[1] http://tDash.orgWeb-based collaborative mind mapping tool for brainstorming and project management.
[1] http://www.mindmeister.com/I might switch from TaDa to Dddone [1] (that I found via this question [2]).
[1] http://dddone.com/A privacy oriented search engine with features like providing previews of the top result pages and making it easy to search specific websites.
[1] http://duckduckgo.com/about.htmlPostmarkApp [1] - I use this for all the web applications I develop for clients.
[1] http://postmarkapp.com/30 Boxes [1] is a dead-simple online calendar app. I use it because it takes fewer clicks to add an event than Google Calendar. :)
[1] http://30boxes.com/Turbo Guid [1] - Excellent for quickly accessing mass amount of GUID's for developmental needs!
[1] http://turboguid.com/Fantastic collaboration tool, especially for development teams.
[1] http://www.assembla.com/It is not a web app on its own, but it allows you to create a web app out of any page you want.
Flickchart [1] is a social network centered around the rating and discussion of movies.
[1] http://www.flickchart.com/http://brizzly.com/ (yep, yet another twitter client).
I've had enough of installing various desktop clients that consume questionable amounts of system resources.
I use HelpDesk Pilot [1] more than I use Gmail email. In other words I manage company emails more than my own personal emails.
[1] http://helpdeskpilot.comAskblogautomation.com [1] because I now manage several blogs.
[1] http://askblogautomation.comBecause I'm working from my home and need to show people I'm talking to on Skype what I'm talking about sometimes, I use GrabOut [1]. It's just a simple tool to quickly grab a piece of your screen and share it in IM, skype, whatever.
[1] http://www.grabout.comHelps you organize and track information about your comic books.
[1] http://WWW.ComicsInventory.comI always use it for the services I want locally in India.
Just like Delicious, but with a better interface and more focused on storing and categorising bookmarks instead of being another social bookmarker.
[1] http://pinboard.inProCSSor [1] is the prettiest and most advanced CSS prettifier/formatter/beautifier/organizer. Tons of options to format CSS the way you want.
[1] http://procssor.comFrom Wikipedia: a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters.
[1] http://glogster.comFrom Wikipedia: a Chinese social networking site with an interface similar to that of Facebook.
[1] http://renren.comSymbaloo is my website launcher though I hate how bloated it's gotten.
[1] http://www.symbaloo.com/Keep track of your record collection, and find almost any release from any artist.
[1] http://discogs.comVery nice to create flush apps
Look up artist/album release details, add your own, manage your library (with downloaded desktop apps). Absolutely invaluable for a music-heavy individual like myself.
Google Calendar [1] because it nicely syncs to my phone and I can't remember a single appointment without it.
[1] https://www.google.com/calendar/
BitNami
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Because there you have all the main web applications, easy to install (natively, in the cloud, virtually..). When you need to install server software and avoid hassle, that's a great place to go. :)
[1] http://www.bitnami.org/Salesforce is our CRM. I login everyday. Its great if everyone in your group is committed to using it and use is engrained in your culture...if not as in my case, it is really a challenge.
Things like offline, outlook plugins, search, document management, and requirements of using your mouse make it a painful tool though better than lexis-nexis, siebel, or sugarcrm.
[1] http://www.salesforce.comtodo.ly [1]
Use it for multiple to-do lists and it's quick and easy when running in Chrome.
[1] http://todo.ly/1/ Why do you use this one more than anything else and ... ?
It permits me testing my regular expressions in PHP.
1bis/... what does it actually do?
Rapidly testing of regular expressions against various PHP functions (prge_match_all,preg_match etc)
2/ Should I use it too?
If you don't have a php install ready or don't want to fire your up
your favorite php editor for simply test a little regexp with some test data.
Diagramly [2] is online diagraming app, very simple and fast because no login required.
[1] http://www.diagram.ly/