5 cool web apps to make your daily life easier and more productive
Posted on March 25, 2007 at 1:42 am
Here a five web sites that you can use to make the things you do in your daily life easier. These are all fairly new, but have become very popular recently.
1. DropSend – DropSend is a web site that allows you to send large files up to 1GB to someones email or to store files online. There are a couple of web sites like this that are free, so you’ll want to check out which one is the best for you. With DropSend, you can send files up to 1GB in size and send up to 5 times in a month for the free plan. The one feature that I like about DropSend is the desktop app (which is very small) and allows you to send files directly from your desktop!
2. FreshBooks - FreshBooks is a online service that lets you create invoices for customers and perform time tracking all through the web! This is becoming a popular service for freelancers, consultants, or other service oriented providers. You can also keep track of your time, bill clients through email or by post, share documents, manage work orders, and generate reports! Great for small businesses trying to manage everything in Word or Excel.
3. MayasMom - An interesting site that is geared towards parents by creating a community of people who share their stories on parenting, marriage, children, etc. A nice use of technology to get people to make decisions together (and hopefully better ones). Good place to go if you need some helping parenting your kids!
4. Mobissimo - I had never even heard of this site before, but it’s another travel search engine covering even more airlines and web sites and it gives real-time ticket prices as if you were you to make the same search on the airline’s web site. The cool thing I liked about this site is their claim to search the largest number of travel sites and the example they gave of someone wanting to fly from Boston to India, it even searches sites that specialize only in booking flights to India, such as MakeMyTrip.com! That’s pretty cool! I performed a search on Orbitz, Expedia, Kayak, and Farecast to test it out and I would have to say that Mobissimo found the most results out of all of them.
5. Wesabe - This is another example of a site that’s using the power of a community of people to create a web site that can help people. The site is geared towards people who want to take control of their finances, find out about deals in their area through other members, and set goals that are reviewed and advised upon by the community. And it’s very cool because let’s say you enter into Wesabe that you spent $42 on groceries yesterday at Wal-Mart, the system will then find people close to you who also shopped at Wal-Mart and it’ll give you tips on what is on sale at that Wal-Mart or where you can go to buy an item that is cheaper somewhere else.
Hope this helps!
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