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Online Replacements for Desktop Apps?

Posted by Cliff on from the share-your-favorites dept.

Jon_Aquino asks: "I'd like to share this Google Groups thread of free online replacements for desktop apps. Some of the gems are: an online UML diagrammer, an online Paintbrush app, online Post-It notes, an incredibly realistic text-to-speech converter, and an online spreadsheet. What are other cool online desktop-app replacements?"

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  1. Raise your hands if... by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Funny

    you just spent 5 minutes making the online text to speech tool say dumb stuff like 'all your base are belong to us'.

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    1. Re:Raise your hands if... by romper · · Score: 5, Funny

      Make it say "eye ham sofa king wee todd did".

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    2. Re:Raise your hands if... by Lispy · · Score: 4, Funny

      I made her say dirty stuff.and I am 27. Will I ever grow up? ;-)

  2. Browser by 14erCleaner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want an online replacement for my web browser. Even Firefox takes too much memory on my PC.

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  3. By posting this to /. by Lispy · · Score: 5, Funny

    you demonstrated the greatest flaw of online apps:
    They depend on a running server. These just died. ;-/

  4. My geek b0yfriend's n0t h0me right n0w... by xigxag · · Score: 4, Funny

    That text-to-speech proggy could come in handy for making up your own custom wacky answering machine messages. You never know, Slashdotters -- callers might actually believe you've got a live-in girlfriend!

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  5. The most ubiquitous of all by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are online sex partner simulators all over the innurnet. They're not too realistic though, as the feedback device feels very much like a squeezing hand...

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  6. This...could be...the REVOLUTION. by Masque · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, wait, wait.

    Did I read this right?

    FREE software?

    Like, you mean, it's free for two weeks then I have to buy it? Or you mean that it's not free, but you found a place to pirate it?

    Or...no. It... it's not possible. Are you seriously coming here, to Slashdot, and telling us that there are software packages that we don't have to pay for, and can still legally use?

    Holy crap, man.

  7. Re:Its Usenet not google groups. by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sheesh.

    Google Groups is an online replacement for your desktop newsreader app, see...

  8. Re:secure...? by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next big "paradigm shift" is going to be applications that allow you keep your tools and private data on your own computer, thus avoiding smearing it all across the public sphere where anyone can take a crack at it.

    KFG

  9. No, no... by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he's talking about Google Groups. I've seen Usenet before. It's full of binaries, not this stuff.

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  10. Re:Its Usenet not google groups. by waterford0069 · · Score: 4, Funny
    You're showing your age. :-)

    *Enter old hacker*
    I remember when we didn't have these fancy-assed weeeeeeeeb browsers. All we had was telnet and FTP, and we LIKED it. And sometimes the server you wanted to use didn't have anonymous-FTP, so you had to crack the box - but that was easy then since everyone's root password was 'root' anyways.

    Oy! We were real men then.
    *Exit old hacker*

  11. slashdot . org by bergeron76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear that the website over at http://slashdot.org is a great online replacement for actual work.

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