21 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use Every Day!

Phonevite

Sending reminders and alerts, with your own voice, is easy and simple using Phonevite. With this tool, you can send free phone reminders & alerts to yourself and/or your friends in 3 quick, easy steps.

For more information, go to http://www.phonevite.com/

Google Docs

You can import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time. All you need is a Web browser.

For more information, go to https://docs.google.com/?pli=1#home

crazyegg – visualize your visitors

Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not.

For more information, go to https://www.crazyegg.com/

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

For more information, go to http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

hooeey – Record, retrieve and analyze your web hops

hooeey is a personal web application that records all web links that you browse and lets you use them in a fun and productive way.

For more information, go to http://www.hooeey.com/

vuzit

Vuzit is a web based document viewer you can embed in any web page. It’s fast to add and it’s free!

For more information, go to http://www.vuzit.com/

codepaste

CodePaste provides an easy and convenient way to send/share PHP, C++, Javascript, Java, CSS, Actionscript and HTML code with others. Copy and paste the code and enter the email where you want the CodePaste to send it. CodePaste then nicely formats the code and sends it over.

For more information, go to http://paste.bradleygill.com/

Sprout Builder

Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more.

For more information, go to http://sproutinc.com/

infoencrypt – Online service for easy encrypt messages

This is service for securing your messages in an easy way. All you need is only to enter a message text of your message and encryption password. The password will be used for both encryption and decryption. The system will encrypt your message using strong encryption algorithm, and it will be secure for sending. Anyone who intercepts the encrypted message without password will not be able to read original message.

For more information. go to http://infoencrypt.com/

Premier Survey

Free survey software for online surveys, web surveys, email surveys. Free Online survey software for customer satisfaction surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, market research surveys.

For more information, go to https://www.premiersurvey.com/default.aspx

Primo Online

PrimoOnline provides a super-fast way to create PDF files online, without the need to install any PDF software. Simply upload your file, enter your email address, and our server-based PDF creator will quickly convert it to PDF and deliver it straight to your email inbox.

For more information, go to http://www.primopdf.com/online.aspx

postica – stick it! Create and share sticky notes

Postica lets you create sticky notes, attach a file, and share them with your friends

For more information, go to http://www.posti.ca/

TinySong

TinySong allows you to quickly share music links with your friends.

For more information, go to TinySong

Adobe Buzzword

AdobeÃ‚Â® BuzzwordÃ‚Â® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required.

For more info, go to https://acrobat.com/welcome.html

ShrinkFile.NET

ShrinkFile.net is a free resource to compress your text documents, images, PDF files and other data online, because some computers don’t have WinZip or WinRAR installed. ShrinkFile.net will host the uploaded content at a static URL for one week, allowing you to share the file with family and friends.

For more info, go to http://www.shrinkfile.net/

Awesome Highlighte

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.

For more info, go to http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/

CreativePro Office

CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you’re likely to find at any price – and it’s completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events from one web-based application.

For more info, go to http://www.mycpohq.com/

ConceptDraw

ConceptDraw Visio File Converter is a free web service, provided by Computer Systems Odessa that is available to anyone who uses diagramming software and has a requirement to open Visio (VSD) documents. This service have been created because Visio users often don’t save their drawing into Visio XML (VDX) file format.

For more info, go to http://www.conceptdraw.com/

Hide My Ass

An anonymous free proxy service aimed at hiding your online identity. Use our service to hide your IP address and bypass your work/school web filter with ease.

For more info, go to http://www.hidemyass.com/

RescueTime

RescueTime is time management software that helps individuals and businesses understand how they spend their time, and provides tools to help them spend it more productively.

For more info, go to http://www.rescuetime.com/

Picnik

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.

For more info, go to http://www.picnik.com/

JUST FOR SHARE......

iTunes Merge with Safari? New Web

Based Application?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8T_DFHZ5gQ

Citation :

1. http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/07/11/21-online-free-web-based-applications-that-you-probably-would-love-to-use-every-day.html

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields.

The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah).

The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969. By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added.

In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.

Who was the first to use the Internet?

Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!

The Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.

The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. There was nothing friendly about it. There were no home or office personal computers in those days, and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian, had to learn to use a very complex system.

Ethernet, a protocol for many local networks, appeared in 1974, an outgrowth of Harvard student Bob Metcalfe's dissertation on "Packet Networks." The dissertation was initially rejected by the University for not being analytical enough. It later won acceptance when he added some more equations to it.

The Internet matured in the 70's as a result of the TCP/IP architecture first proposed by Bob Kahn at BBN and further developed by Kahn and Vint Cerf at Stanford and others throughout the 70's. It was adopted by the Defense Department in 1980 replacing the earlier Network Control Protocol (NCP) and universally adopted by 1983.

As the commands for e-mail, FTP, and telnet were standardized, it became a lot easier for non-technical people to learn to use the nets. It was not easy by today's standards by any means, but it did open up use of the Internet to many more people in universities in particular. Other departments besides the libraries, computer, physics, and engineering departments found ways to make good use of the nets--to communicate with colleagues around the world and to share files and resources.

As the Internet has become ubiquitous, faster, and increasingly accessible to non-technical communities, social networking and collaborative services have grown rapidly, enabling people to communicate and share interests in many more ways. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, YouTube, Flickr, Second Life, delicious, blogs, wikis, and many more let people of all ages rapidly share their interests of the moment with others everywhere.

HISTORY OF INTERNET

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXW02VR4uU&feature=related

Citation :

1. http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

Metasearch Engine

A metasearch engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source.

Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately.

Operation

Metasearch engines create what is known as a virtual database. They do not compile a physical database or catalogue of the web. Instead, they take a user's request, pass it to several other heterogeneous databases and then compile the results in a homogeneous manner based on a specificalgorithm.

No two metasearch engines are alike. Some search only the most popular search engines while others also search lesser-known engines, newsgroups, and other databases. They also differ in how the results are presented and the quantity of engines that are used. Some will list results according to search engine or database. Others return results according to relevance, often concealing which search engine returned which results. This benefits the user by eliminating duplicate hits and grouping the most relevant ones at the top of the list.

Search engines frequently have different ways they expect requests submitted. For example, some search engines allow the usage of the word "AND" while others require "+" and others require only a space to combine words. The better metasearch engines try to synthesize requests appropriately when submitting them.