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What is your most-used web application? Fairly straightforward question. It shouldn't be too hard to guess what will come out on top, but I'm interested to see what else gets high votes.

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Why do you use this one more than anything else and what does it actually do? Should I use it too?

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Gmail

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I'm on the internet = Gmail is open – ilhan Jul 10 '10 at 22:05
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I even use it for my office mails, instead of using outlook, I pull all my mails into gmail and keep it open always – JayaprakashReddy Aug 6 '10 at 9:40
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Gmail = Breathing! even open when I'm off to bed. – KMan Oct 6 '10 at 7:17
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tDash

Disclaimer: While this may suspiciously sound like my own trumpet, allow me to explain.

Google Reader was my best source of news and information. Read item, press SPACEBAR, jump to the next unread item. Rinse and repeat.

Until Twitter happened. And then I created tDash to relive the Goog-Reader experience, with the personal touch that Twitter affords.

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With a focus on... productivity???? ha! :) – Vinko Vrsalovic Jul 10 '10 at 21:45
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@HRJ: Probably you didn't miss anything. It's just that a webapp that promotes itself as a "twitter client with a focus on productivity" is something like a casino promoting itself as a "easy money generator for your retirement plan and savings" – Vinko Vrsalovic Jul 15 '10 at 17:45
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Diagramly

Diagramly is online diagraming app, very simple and fast because no login required.

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Lumadis Regex Tester

1/ Why do you use this one more than anything else and ... ?
It permits me testing my regular expressions in PHP.

1bis/... what does it actually do?
Rapidly testing of regular expressions against various PHP functions (prge_match_all,preg_match etc)

2/ Should I use it too?
If you don't have a php install ready or don't want to fire your up your favorite php editor for simply test a little regexp with some test data.

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todo.ly

Use it for multiple to-do lists and it's quick and easy when running in Chrome.

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Rubular

Awesome for tweaking regular expressions.

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Salesforce

Salesforce is our CRM. I login everyday. Its great if everyone in your group is committed to using it and use is engrained in your culture...if not as in my case, it is really a challenge.

Things like offline, outlook plugins, search, document management, and requirements of using your mouse make it a painful tool though better than lexis-nexis, siebel, or sugarcrm.

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BitNami

Because there you have all the main web applications, easy to install (natively, in the cloud, virtually..). When you need to install server software and avoid hassle, that's a great place to go. :)

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JSBin

I hang around the JavaScript tag a lot over on Stack Overflow, this comes in handy (and its editor is a little less buggy than jsFiddle's).

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WordPress

  • The most used blogging platform
  • Open source CMS
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Pandora

It really comes in handy when you're hanging out with friends. Just fire it up on the Android and you've got music. No pesky CDs, music libraries, stereo systems, etc...

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I wish it was available outside of USA, I had enjoyed it. – nimcap Aug 5 '10 at 9:17
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@nimcap: You can use pianobar (github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar) to listen to Pandora outside the US. – Mark Szymanski Oct 8 '10 at 15:08
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Google Calendar because it nicely syncs to my phone and I can't remember a single appointment without it.

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Google Reader

Both through the web app and apps like Net News Wire and Reeder.

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Historious

The best bookmarking solution

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MusicBrainz

http://musicbrainz.org/

Look up artist/album release details, add your own, manage your library (with downloaded desktop apps). Absolutely invaluable for a music-heavy individual like myself.

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HootSuite

http://hootsuite.com

HootSuite is the Social Media Dashboard! Rather than being a social network, HootSuite allows you to connect to multiple social networks from one website. (source: HootSuite Help Desk)

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some annotation would be useful. – Peter Mortensen Jul 18 '10 at 14:23
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DuckDuckGo

A privacy oriented search engine with features like providing previews of the top result pages and making it easy to search specific websites.

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Assembla

Fantastic collaboration tool, especially for development teams.

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Renren.com

From Wikipedia: a Chinese social networking site with an interface similar to that of Facebook.

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Google Talk

Wow, I am really surprised no one has mentioned this one already. I have this turned on literally all-day long.

I know there's Google Chat as part of Gmail, I'm referring to the stand-alone application.

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I guess I'm thinking how it's only purpose is to connect you via your Gmail account to other users, it's a web-centric app but not run in the browser. Kind of a grey-area to me as we start to see more web-enabled apps delivered through things like Adobe Air. – jerebear Dec 9 '10 at 6:31
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jsFiddle

I use jsFiddle all the time. It's great for prototyping a simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript page and sharing it.

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Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk - It's awesome. Easy to use, I can email tasks & lists to my RTM account, repeating, everything is better! Used to use todoist, but RTM is WAY better.

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I spent literally entire days looking for the perfect todo-app. I ended up settling on toodledo.com - it's not perfect (though even without the premium features it comes close), but IMHO it's significantly better than RTM. – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Oct 1 '10 at 2:25
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Google Maps

Brilliant feature of google maps is to find a direction from one place to another which details the route , distance , time takes to travel using car,public transport...And almost my favorite in this app is it also gives "Suggested routes".

Hope its been useful by many travellers and path finders :)

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