This is comparison of two task trackers or to do lists: Remember the milk and Todoist. The basic idea of the two apps is the same: keep track of your tasks, organize them in due date, priority and category/project/tag. But the feel of the two is very different. Remember the milk is kind of quite, whileTodoist is very straightforward, very well represented n the logo of the 2 apps. Both have support for mobile phones and Remember the milk has offline support through google gears. The crux in task lists is that it is suppose to increase your productivity and so the essential is the usability and here Todoist wins from Remember the milk. Todoist is really based on the premis of how to get your tasks organized as quickly as possible.  For starters remember the milk does not give a comprehensible overview aff all the tasks, overdue until next year, in one glance. This gives me the idea that i might be missing something, and that is exactly what i try to avoid.  Additionaly todoist has an extreme efficient way of adding new tasks. Although i miss an add task button on the home page, once you are in the project it is ...

Michael Tan at CNET Asia goes on about how Alt-Tab doesnt work in Google Chrome, but is that actually the case? Michael claims the following: The short of it all, you can't do ALT-TAB between browser tabs. That means when once we could copy text from Excel, ALT-TAB and paste the text in Outlook, we can't do the ALT-TAB trick to copy text from Google Apps and paste it in Gmail. That's right, not even the superbrowser Chrome. Why didn't the engineers think of it? I guess they don't use web apps too much. I am not sure if Michael tried the brilliant application shortcuts or lift a tab out of a window but for me it works like a charm. Alt-Tab brings me from a tab to a tab and Ctrl-Tab from an app to an app. Or did i get it wrong?

Just days after a frustrating searches for online backup systmes for my 500gb external network drive (and in the end setteling for multiple free accounts at iDrive) i stumble on this rather amazing LifeHacker announcement(via Download Squad, via shankri-la , via Mark of MeAndMyDrum ja, ja): Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that's 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you've connected your accounts, you can actually drag and drop photos between webapps—so, for example, if you uploaded a photo to Oosah that you wanted to add to a Flickr set, you can just drag and drop it onto Flickr in the sidebar.  The main thing that i didnt find is a mutliple file uploader with folder structures. Do i have to fill 1 terabyte with individual selected files? Ge! I might need a holiday.

Robert Nyman has made an intersting small application called GMDesk. It downloads in sec and provides with some nice package to have gmail, gogle calendar, goodle docs etc. But maybe the app shortcuts in Google Chrome work almost as well. An issue for both solutions is where a link goes. In Google Chrome it goes to a new tab in an excisting regular Chrome window, which is helpful if it is an external link but not so much if it is an "in-app" link. GMDesk simply opens it in a new GMDesk window, whcih can get a bit annoying and cluttered, More on Nyman's application: GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace. Fire up GMDesk, and just alt-tab (on Windows or Linux) or Cmd-tab (on Mac) to shift between this application and the other ones you are running. GMDesk offers an easy menu as well as keyboard shortcuts to switch between different Google services, and you can specify what default service you want the application ...

InformationWeek has news form the Web 2.0 Expo in New York: Zoho, which makes an online office suite of 18 apps including word processor, spreadsheet, e-mail, chat, CRM, and Web conferencing, plans a couple of upgrades in the next two weeks. The company plans the week of Sept. 29 to introduce an online app store for its Creator service. Creator is a drag-and-drop Ajax-based, browser-based platformfor database applications. Users can build apps such as customer record management, human resources, or tracking music collections, which are hosted on Zoho's Creator database services.

Not to be confused with the Kroatian soccer player, this image editing web app is mostly notable for its exclusive use of javascript/ajax. Most other editing apps use adobe flash to get their stuff done. My own experience - especially in Google Chrome - is that most of the browser crashes are caused by flash. You tube videos, banner ads they all run on flash, but the little piece of magic from DrPic Life Hacker If you want to edit photos in your web browser without loading Flash, Silverlight, Java, or any other heavy plug-in, check out DrPic.com, a surprisingly full-featured online image editor which works its magic completely in Javascript.

Now the main editor in flickr, picnik has the simplicity that you need for quickly resizing or cropping your pics for online use. Image quaility in resizing is much better than Splashup  ExtremeTech.com Picnik isn't about trying to be an online Photoshop, but rather is intended as a way to give digital shutterbugs a convenient way to fix up their snapshots. Its competition in the installed software world is Picasa rather than Photoshop. But don't think it's a simple rotate and red-eye correcting app: Picnik offers plenty of impressive capabilities. LifeHacker.com: There's quite a bit to Picnik, actually: you can do the basic resizes and tweaks that most other free image editors we've talked about here at Lifehacker can manage; however, Picnik also comes with some nifty special effects, and can be used with a whole plethora of community photo sharing sites, i.e., Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, etc. It's not as powerful as Photoshop, naturally, but for a browser-based image editor, Picnik does a fine job.

While SplashUp looks like a photoshop clone, Photoshop Express online doesnt look anything like it's Desktop uncle. It is a totally renewed concept completely designed for the online experience. In the signing upprocess you have to pretend you are from the US as it claims to available in the US only, but even in Mongolia it was possible to sign up without any trouble. That trouble is saved for the actual application, although the basic features - like cropping - work very well, there is no way i can get to import items from picasa, facebook or flickr.  CNET:   Photoshop Express, available for free with 2 gigabytes of storage at www.photoshop.com/express, is a significant departure from Adobe's desktop software business and a big bet that it can make money offering Web servicesdirectly to consumers. The application, which needs Flash Player 9 to run, pushes the limits of browser-based applications and will likely ratchet up the competition on the dozens of free and online photo-editing products available now (see our full review of Photoshop Express and gallery of screen shots of the application).

An online photoshop look-alike Splashup has some powerful feautures but on slower connections or systems has problems pulling through. Image resizing leaves the pictures in rather poor quality    Infodoodads.com: My significant other just walked by and asked “Is that Photoshop? ” A reasonable question, as Splashup both appears and works in Photoshop style. AppAppeal.com: Splashup (formerly Fauxto) is used to both modify and create images on the fly. With a similar setup to Photoshop or Gimp, Splashup provides an interface that makes it quick and simple to modify any image from your computer or the web. In addition to simply uploading images, Splashup allows free-transformation of the image, layer effects, multiple brushes and much more. With the ability to share and download images when complete, it could replace a desktop image editing program very quickly. Downloadsquad.com: one of the best online image editors we've seen so far This web-based image editor has all your usual features like resizing, cropping, and some basic effects like sharpening, blurring, and pixelizing. But there are also some pretty advanced color controls and you an even use layered effects.  Splashup runs in Flash, so you should be able to use it with any web browser on any operating system. Unfortunately we were unable ...

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