Online applications & Tools

Wow! Having just lost all my documents with a hard drive malfunction, I'm excited about the use of document-makers that don't necessarily reside on my hard drive. I should have explored what was meant by off-line use, since I would most likely want also to have an edition on my hard drive. I don't currently do anything fancy with Word or Excel, so whatever features might be missing from Google Docs and Spreadsheets isn't obvious to me. I do have Vista, so I noted that the docx items I create cannot be uploaded in Google, from one of the comments.

I used the Zoho planner to set up some reminders of items to take care of (including completing my homework assignments). I'm not sure if they email or if you have to go into Zoho to look at the calendar listing, in which case I would need a reminder to look at Zoho daily!

I don't know how easily documents could be hacked. I did note that each site had the option to share or not to share. I'd want to learn more about that.

I also checked out Snipshot, which had a lot of ads to purchase the Pro version. I played around with one picture, but was not truly sure whether I saved it over the same picture name (I hope not) or if it's living in the download box from Firefox. I do have an old version of Adobe Elements and need to spend time learning the ins and outs before I would start paying for something else. If you want to do a quick resize or cropping and some tuning up I think Snipshot could work. I tried to undo something I had done (like distort the picture!) and either it didn't work, or I didn't wait long enough for it to work. I would not be inclined to use this tool at the moment.