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Jeff Miller · 1 year ago

This is great.

I already found two that I didn't already know about and I'm not done looking through your list.

This site has been bookmarked.

Narayanan Hariharan · 1 year ago

@ Jeff - Glad the list was of some use to you. Do keep coming back for more :)

Shankar Ganesh · 1 year ago

Hey that's an interesting list. I've never heard of many of the online apps you've mentioned here before.

Gliffy is quite cool ;)

Debi K · 1 year ago

Thanks for the mention and description of Gliffy. (And the compliment above!)
We appreciate the attention. Many business users find the collaborative features of Gliffy to enhance their experience.
Let us know what you think,
debik at gliffy dot com

zeek · 1 year ago

Great list except YouOS as a replacement for Vista is really freaking stretching it. Since you require a real OS to use YouOS first.

Improve Firefox · 1 year ago

There is already much better online alternative of Photosop than Splashup - Phoenix by Aviary: http://a.viary.com/home (you still need an invitation though.)

Kris · 1 year ago

I only glanced at two on the list presented, the first was MS outlook...gmail is NOT an online alternative, outlook is simply a mail client, a frontend to a mail server, gmail on the other hand is a public mail server which you can get an account on. The next one that I saw, that might have had a chance to redeem you, was MS Excel Spreadsheet...Paypal is NOT an alternative to that, while yes, you can keep track of finances, your bank's online system is probably better suited to that, besides, spreadsheets do more then just keep track of finances. I didn't even bother reading the rest, do your research next time.

Yeah... · 1 year ago

OpenOffice for any of the Microsoft Office suites.

http://suite-2008.com/index.asp?aff=007&cam...

Andrew · 1 year ago

Thanks for the write up, Sosius has had over 10,000 members join in the last 5 months and these businesses have been raving about the benefits. We're always on the look out for feedback and new feature suggestions so please tell us what you think.

Andrew @ Sosius.com

dani · 1 year ago

This list is very useful, I'm definitely going to try Splashup (and Phoenix!)
If you're interested, PassPack is another great online password manager
PassPack - Clipperz comparison:

http://tinyurl.com/2nbqvn

Carolyn Bahm · 1 year ago

A very useful post. I didn't know about some of these online alternatives.

tom · 1 year ago

I don't think Outlook == gmail, outlook does not provide you with an email address, you need or will get a gmail account that acts like Outlook. overall good list though

HEY GAIS · 1 year ago

check here for a real list, that tells you why this list is wrong.

http://flamewarrior.110mb.com/Web%20Apps%20suck...

also, web apps suck.

Steve K · 1 year ago

Just one problem: There are no online applications, only online services. I don't see any of the useful online services listed here, because none of them pretend to be "applications". Using web based services to to the jobs of local application software is inherently less effecient, less reliable, and less secure than using "real" application software.

Midnight Sun · 1 year ago

No offense man, but so many of the alternatives you provide are substandard. I mean - gmail instead of thunderbird as an outlook alternative? Paypal instead of spreadsheets? Check out this guys rebuttal page:

http://flamewarrior.110mb.com/Web%20Apps%20suck...

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Someone made a rebuttal to this post, and, quite frankly, I don't think you really hit the target quite like this guy did.

http://flamewarrior.110mb.com/Web%20Apps%20suck...

Rakshiv · 1 year ago

http://flamewarrior.110mb.com/Web%20Apps%20suck...


see this list = more win then this one.

Chris · 1 year ago

Web apps suck and so does your list. Seriously.
Flickr is not an alternative to Aperture - they do completely different things and Flickr is nothing more than a photo hosting site
PayPal is not an alternative to Excel or Financial Software - Paypal is nothing more than a payment processing service.

ier · 1 year ago

uhm...how is paypal equal to excel spreadsheets/invoices etc.? Makes no sense. Paypal is an online money transferring service, which basically has zero to do with spreadsheets.

http://flamewarrior.110mb.com/Web%20Apps%20suck...

A reply to your list with (for anyone who actually knows how to use a computer) some better suggestions.

It's good that people make these lists...but try to make sure that you know what you're talking about.

ghoti · 1 year ago

wow, this is about the dumbest list ever. of you found this useful, please for the love of god keep looking. this is NOT a good list and it is just too wrong to spend time detailing th whole thing.

but for starters top 3 should have easily been ubuntu, openOffice, and the Gimp all of which make significantly more sense than this list. In fact I don't see anything on it that I would consider remotely useful

darren · 1 year ago

"

OpenOffice for any of the Microsoft Office suites.

http://suite-2008.com/index.asp?aff=007&cam...

"

how is this an online alternative?

Narayanan Hariharan · 1 year ago

@ all who are in favor of the flamewarrior list - The above list is all about Online Alternatives and not Desktop Alternatives. A lot of our readers have got that wrong. To all those who mentioned Ubuntu/Open Office, they are very good desktop alternatives but not online.

Regarding MS Excel - I agree with all of you, Paypal cannot be the sole alternative and that's why Google Docs, Zoho, ChartAll etc are given as alternatives too, each good in their own ways. Comparison with Paypal is only for the invoicing feature as a lot of users make use of Excel for their invoicing requirements.

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Lisa · 1 year ago

An alternative for AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger is Meebo. A free, multiplatform instant messenger program that runs through the web browser. Just go to www.meebo.com.

Josh · 1 year ago

Has anyone ever used Fax Zero? I did about a year ago and it was terrible. I was never able to fax anything out. The site would either fail or it would only send the cover sheet and not the file I attached. Does anyone know of any good free fax services?

And before you flame warrior trolls start your rant about using emails, there are still some places that will only accept a document if faxed.

Raymond Lichtman · 1 year ago

Check out Lotus Symphony - word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software.

Jack · 1 year ago

Umm...no thanks. I think I'll just stick to my desktop applications. I'm not a big fan of web "apps", but I did not like how the rebuttal chart was presented. It was a bit obnoxious in my opinion. Also, for certain private documents, it is better to fax them than to email them, do to any traces that the email may leave behind.

Katie · 1 year ago

nice list, thanks
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Webdesigner · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot! Nice Application list. It was very helpful. I became your RSS subscriber.

Kevin · 1 year ago

Great compilation. Thanks for sharing..

Jach · 1 year ago

Neat list, but I'm still largely against online desktop applications. There's a reason they're called desktop applications; they're meant to run on the desktop. And frankly JavaScript and a fast internet connection are no substitutes for a native app which was probably written in C/C++. Better lists give OSS alternatives, I think.

Though I do admire a lot of the work Google has done. A lot of their online stuff is pretty darn useful.

Alex · 1 year ago

This is very good list.

And this is a GOOGLE alternative..(meta search)

http://www.loadevery.com

webmaster · 1 year ago

A very useful post. I didn’t know about some of these online alternatives

mantiz · 1 year ago

great post! I myself use most of these tools. another good tool is webozip, that can be used to unzip files online.

BillinDetroit · 1 year ago

get rid of the flame warrior comments ... they are just spam. Flame Warrior ... ESAD.

Abdo · 1 year ago

Clever list.

masterza · 1 year ago

Very interesting article must all check and try, thank you!

медицина · 1 year ago

Интересная статья, автору огромное спасибо за такой интересный сайт.

tv · 1 year ago

Интересно было прочесть вашу статью спасибо за познавательный материал

Busby · 1 year ago

Great job making this list. Sometimes I think indeed we need an alternative to some major desktop software, 'coz many of them are requiring too much our computer resources. Besides, there are huge list of alternative online application software that we need no more to install it on our computer. Nice job.

Web Design Perth · 11 months ago

As a web designer I definitely say Firefox for Internet Explorer (esp. version 6 !!! which should be wiped off the planet for it's anti-standards-compliance).