Task 14 - Web-based Applications

There was a time when pricey word-processing programs were a necessity. You needed to buy a copy for your home computer, and every other computer you might need to open the file on, and you were pretty much out of luck if you had a different version of the program on any of the computers you used. And forget sharing your documents with friends or coworkers. You ran into the same problems if you both didn't have the same version of a program, or even the same program (Word vs. Works vs. Wordperfect for example).

Web-based applications try to alleviate some of these problems. By making the application available online, not only is the program available to any computer with internet access, but the file is also available from any computer with internet access.

Some examples of web-based apps:

Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Google bought out the online word processor Writely in the spring of 2006. Most of what I do for this challenge has been created here, so I don't loose the disk my files are saved on. Files can be uploaded here and edited, or exported onto a disk (in several file types) for editing offline.

Phixr is an online photo editing program. While it doesn't offer as much as Photoshop, it's still a handy program. Also similar is My Pictr, which only crops photos.

You can also find more web-based applications here.

Your task: Send me an email (emthelibrarian@gmail.com). I have created a list of movies to buy for the new library on Google Docs, and I will put you on the list of people to edit it. There, you can add your movie suggestions, and explore the service at the same time!