Web Services As Freeware: GMail, Blogger, Dictionary, Yahoo Calendar ...

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Jonathan Aquino

I'm fascinated by the similarity of freeware and free web services.
They're very close cousins -- it's just that one lives on the desktop,
while the other lives on the internet. I'd be interested to hear what
others think about this connection.

If there was a Pricelessware for web services, it might look something
like the following (what are other good free web services?) --

BUSINESS-HOME
Calculator: Google Calculator
Units Converter: (various)
Dictionary: dictionary.com
Thesaurus: thesaurus.com
Graph Paper: (various)
Bible Program: bible.gospelcom.net
FILE UTILITIES
Search: Google, Teoma, Dogpile, Ask
File Transfer: SendThisFile.com
(Need to send someone a 50 MB file?)
GRAPHICS
Ruler: Centricle Ruler bookmarklet
Image Gallery: Flikr, Ofoto,
INTERNET
Chat Client: ICQ & Yahoo have browser-based clients!
Email Client: GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo
Newsreader: Google Groups
MULTIMEDIA
Audio Player: RadioParadise.com
Search: Singingfish
ORGANIZERS
Calendar: Yahoo Calendar
(lotsa features, and syncs with Palm to boot!)
Notes: Blogger
Address Book: Yahoo Address Book
World Clock: (various)
PROGRAMMING
SECURITY
Anti-Virus: Trend Micro Housecall
SYSTEM UTILITIES
Operating System: Firefox ;-)
Backup: Yahoo Briefcase (30 MB)
TEXT
Notepad Editor: Blogger, Yahoo Notepad
Word Processor: US Postal Service has a WYSIWYG app
(but you'll need to send it to yourself ;-)
Convert Text To Speech: Natural Voices
(amazing quality -- only 30 words though)
WEB DESIGN
WYSIWYG Editor: GeoCities PageBuilder (amazing)

And we need a catchy term for "free web services", like "freeware" is
for desktop apps. How about "Pricelesswebs"?

Jon
 
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Jonathan Aquino

Iain Cheyne said:
(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in

I prefer:


www.onelook.com
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I'm delighted with the clean interface. I wish that the definitions
from the various dictionaries are shown immediately so that I don't
have to click to see each one -- do you know of a way to enable this?
www.furl.net or http://del.icio.us
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I'm intrigued by both, especially the "popular links" on the second
one
SYSTEM UTILITIES

www.pcpitstop.com
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Wow. I'm pretty impressed -- looks like a Norton Utilities, but it's a
website!

Jon
 
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Iain Cheyne

(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in
I'm delighted with the clean interface. I wish that the definitions
from the various dictionaries are shown immediately so that I don't
have to click to see each one -- do you know of a way to enable this?
Click to expand...

Go to www.onelook.com/customize.shtml and specify Verbose, but I just use
Compact and just read the definition that always appears in the right
margin.
 
C

Chakolate

(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in
Wow. I'm pretty impressed -- looks like a Norton Utilities, but it's a
website!
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Yeah, except it makes you turn off your firewall to use it.

Chak
 
E

El Gee

(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in
I'm fascinated by the similarity of freeware and free web services.
They're very close cousins -- it's just that one lives on the desktop,
while the other lives on the internet. I'd be interested to hear what
others think about this connection.

If there was a Pricelessware for web services, it might look something
like the following (what are other good free web services?) --

BUSINESS-HOME
Calculator: Google Calculator
Units Converter: (various)
Dictionary: dictionary.com
Thesaurus: thesaurus.com
Graph Paper: (various)
Bible Program: bible.gospelcom.net
FILE UTILITIES
Search: Google, Teoma, Dogpile, Ask
File Transfer: SendThisFile.com
(Need to send someone a 50 MB file?)
GRAPHICS
Ruler: Centricle Ruler bookmarklet
Image Gallery: Flikr, Ofoto,
INTERNET
Chat Client: ICQ & Yahoo have browser-based clients!
Email Client: GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo
Newsreader: Google Groups
MULTIMEDIA
Audio Player: RadioParadise.com
Search: Singingfish
ORGANIZERS
Calendar: Yahoo Calendar
(lotsa features, and syncs with Palm to boot!)
Notes: Blogger
Address Book: Yahoo Address Book
World Clock: (various)
PROGRAMMING
SECURITY
Anti-Virus: Trend Micro Housecall
SYSTEM UTILITIES
Operating System: Firefox ;-)
Backup: Yahoo Briefcase (30 MB)
TEXT
Notepad Editor: Blogger, Yahoo Notepad
Word Processor: US Postal Service has a WYSIWYG app
(but you'll need to send it to yourself ;-)
Convert Text To Speech: Natural Voices
(amazing quality -- only 30 words though)
WEB DESIGN
WYSIWYG Editor: GeoCities PageBuilder (amazing)

And we need a catchy term for "free web services", like "freeware" is
for desktop apps. How about "Pricelesswebs"?

Jon
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{open can of worms here}

So anyone up for the task of creating "Pricelessweb"?

--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
El Gee

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.


Remove yourhat to reply ... but it may take a while.
Best to go to www.mistergeek.com and reply from there.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
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Michael Forsythe

El said:
(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in





{open can of worms here}

So anyone up for the task of creating "Pricelessweb"?
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Excellent idea! Here are 2 more candidates:

INTERNET
Email client: Fastmail.fm
RSS Reader: Bloglines.com
 
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Chaos Master

El Gee ([email protected]) said those last words:

{open can of worms here}

So anyone up for the task of creating "Pricelessweb"?
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If you can consider Telnet/SSH as a web service, then there are a lot of free
Linux/BSD shell accounts you can use.

I use one (m-net.arbornet.org) for programming, and other, provided by my ISP,
to access IRC. I use the PuTTY SSH/Telnet client. (400kb. I can put it on a
floppy and use it anywhere there's an Internet connection).

[]s
--
© Chaos Master. | "I've tried so hard to tell
My Evanescence HP is at: | myself that you're gone
http://marreka.no-ip.com | And thought you were still
(most often offline... ) | with me..."
------------------------- -- Evanescence, "My Immortal"
 
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Jonathan Aquino

I'm intrigued by both, especially the "popular links" on the second
one
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I just wanted to share my technique for online bookmarks, which I'm
quite proud of. My bookmarks page is a Yahoo Geocities page, so I can
edit it online from any computer
(http://www.geocities.com/jonathan_aquino/bookmarks.html). And because
it is a webpage, it makes a great FireFox sidebar. A lot of the
bookmarks are *bookmarklets*, so they operate on the currently
selected text: search engines, blogging, even text-to-speech! This
bookmarks-page/Firefox-sidebar is the "Start menu" for my "internet
operating system".

Jon
 
J

Jonathan Aquino

Chaos Master said:
If you can consider Telnet/SSH as a web service, then there are a lot of free
Linux/BSD shell accounts you can use.

I use one (m-net.arbornet.org) for programming, and other, provided by my ISP,
to access IRC. I use the PuTTY SSH/Telnet client. (400kb. I can put it on a
floppy and use it anywhere there's an Internet connection).

[]s
Click to expand...

Free Unix shell account ?!? I'm amazed! (and grateful). Yes it
qualifies as a web service, especially because it has an *applet for
the command-line*. I'm delighted!
 
C

Chaos Master

Jonathan Aquino ([email protected]) said those last words:
Free Unix shell account ?!? I'm amazed! (and grateful). Yes it
qualifies as a web service, especially because it has an *applet for
the command-line*. I'm delighted!
Click to expand...

:)

I started looking for UNIX [1] shell accounts because I wanted to program stuff,
and (optionally) run an IRC bot. Since most shell accounts do not like people
running IRC bots... but programming is enough.

[1] UNIX on this case, I mean Linux, BSD, etc...

[]s
--
© Chaos Master. | "I've tried so hard to tell
My Evanescence HP is at: | myself that you're gone
http://marreka.no-ip.com | And thought you were still
(most often offline... ) | with me..."
------------------------- -- Evanescence, "My Immortal"
 
J

Jonathan Aquino

Chaos Master said:
Jonathan Aquino ([email protected]) said those last words:
Free Unix shell account ?!? I'm amazed! (and grateful). Yes it
qualifies as a web service, especially because it has an *applet for
the command-line*. I'm delighted!
Click to expand...

:)

I started looking for UNIX [1] shell accounts because I wanted to program stuff,
and (optionally) run an IRC bot. Since most shell accounts do not like people
running IRC bots... but programming is enough.

[1] UNIX on this case, I mean Linux, BSD, etc...

[]s
Click to expand...

Will this service let you create websites with CGI/Perl scripts? I've
always wanted to get into that, but my cable ISP doesn't permit it.
 

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