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Another place to look that I've used in the past is AlternativeTo:
http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-dreamweaver/?license=opensource

Seems like the OP could stand to learn some googling skills.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/1956219/Linux-Friendly-Alternatives-To-Skype

There's also:

http://alternativeto.net/software/skype/?exactmatch=true

Not affiliated with this site, but I find it handy at times:
  http://alternativeto.net/software/skype/?profile=linux&platform=linux&exactmatch=true

Qtweb is a good lightweight choice for older computers.
http://www.qtweb.net/

See also other browser choices at:
http://alternativeto.net/software/qtweb/

http://alternativeto.net/software/delicious/

This has a bunch of alternatives though.

Wow, seems Yahoo is silently but steadily imploding...

BTW, anyone who needs some alternatives to del.icio.us can start here (I needed to look, because I liked del.icio.us simplicity and thus have all my bookmarks there!).

http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-reader/

As somebody who just lost a bunch of data due to faulty backup disks, I for one welcome this.

So, the solution of losing backup of data created with some applications is to change the applications you use and in addition trust all your data to a third party?

In that case I would go for something similar to DropBox and use it as an "offline" backup.

http://alternativeto.net/

Does Linux have a LiveMesh equivalent that is easy (as in Create Account, Download Program, Install, and you're done) to do and has a reliable web presence? Not that I know of...

http://alternativeto.net/desktop/live-mesh/?platform=linux

I also know that Ubuntu has a "cloud" service called Ubuntu One as well that comes pre-setup and all you have to do is create an account and you already have a folder that automatically synchronizes your files (application installation is already drop dead simple), but this Dropbox listed in the URL above seems to work on all platforms.

As far as the OSX/iTunes stuff, I don't know. I did a search. (As noted by the "one can find articles..." in my previous post) I don't use Apple products myself, but the Outlook Web Client I've had tons of issues in the past using it with Firefox and other browsers from Linux. I haven't logged into it recently, but they could have improved it when IE started losing ground in order to save face.

But you are missing a point here... Google embraced the web, developed apps for it and promote web development. You could call the Web their operating system, but they've managed to make it work with the others much better than Microsoft by embracing the standards instead of creating some offshoot that is completely incompatible with everyone else. Chrome is really meaningless except to get browsers competing for javascript performance which will help Google, and it still uses open standards without resorting to special functionality. (eg: ActiveX, .NET plugins) I assume it only has a short lifespan until the other browsers "catch up." I fully see ChromeOS as a pet project to also push web presence in current OSes. It really doesn't matter that they don't have any "non-web applications" IMHO.

It's also kind of hard to answer the question asked without knowing much about the software involved. We know it's a web project of some kind, but that doesn't do much to narrow things down. If it's a web application framework like Rails then promoting it would be a very different task than if it's a blog publishing application like Wordpress. Hopefully, it's not an exact duplicate of some other common open source project, of course. If, however, it does perform the same function as another well known program, particularly a closed source one, you might want to start by listing it on AlternativeTo.

If you want a dumb reader, my I suggest Sumatra PDF.
It's the best one I've found yet.

Or check out the Alternativeto.net page for Acrobat and find your own.

Well... there's AlternativeTo, which I wish more people would support, and extend. I really wish there was a desktop interface to the app store for iPhone, and the marketplace for Android, where you could search through and compare apps easily before downloading to your phone. Actually searching on your phone is too cumbersome unless you know the app you actually want ahead of time.