17 essential online tools to maximize personal and business productivity

Posted on October 21, 2007
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It doesn’t really matter wheather you are a student, businessman, painter, singer, or pensioner. In any case I am sure you would like to know what are the best ways to easily maximize your personal and productivity.

It’s a good idea to rely on online tools that can be used to save time, and make your daily routine less boring. What is more wherever on Earth you are you can use them as if you were at home.

There are many tool that are worth being recommend, but there are 17 of them which seem to be more important than the rest.

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An online chance to Sync Your MS Office Docs with Your Docs Account. Currently in Beta version online.

Advantages: simple to use, online, useful

Disadvantages: only Beta version available, not very popular

Mark: 7/10

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“a presentation tool similar to Microsoft PowerPoint built in Flex and Flash. It has rich drawing tools for tables and charts, 3-D animated transitions between slides and the ability to play back video and audio files within presentations” via:Wired

Advantages: Effectiveness, reliability, simplicity, 3-D transitions

Disadvantages: minor technical problems, graphics might be improved

Mark: 9/10

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CreativePro Office is a set of online office management tools. Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events and quotes from one -based application.

Advantages: free, easy to use, wide range of services

Disadvantages: poor graphics, not all services are available yet

Mark: 7/10

authorSTREAM is an online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free, but also assists you to share them with your friends, students or co-workers located across the globe.

Advantages: reliability, simplicity

Disadvantages: not very popular, only one service

Mark: 7/10

PreZentit is the webapp where you can create (by yourself or in a group), present and share your presentations with the people you want to or with everyone.

Advantages: different languages, great graphics

Disadvantages: not always reliable, minor problems

Mark: 8/10

Preezo is an Ajax application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the without software or plugins.

Advantages: high quality, good sharing options

Disadvantages: poor graphics, not very user friendly

Mark:7/10

Plotbot is -based screenwriting software. You can write your script with as many or as few people as you want—there’s nothing to install, it’s free, and it’s easy to use

Advantages: free, pretty easy

Disadvantages: not likely to become popular

Mark: 5/10

It’s a based application designed to enhance your personal productivity and ease collaboration on projects with clients and co-workers

Advantages: wide range of services. cool graphics

Disadvantages: a bit hard to use for newbies

Mark: 6/10

Allows to create spreadsheets that are easily shared with your friends, relatives and co-workers.

Advantages: very simple, good for everyone

Disadvantages: basically only one service

Mark: 7/10

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EditGrid solves the spreadsheet collaboration problem by allowing concurrent viewing and editing by multiple users in real-time. Your spreadsheets are now easy to share, and accessible anytime, anywhere with an connection…

Advantages: good sharing options, excellent features, free

Disadvantages: bit complicated for newbies

Mark: 8/10

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Zoho offers a suite of online applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration.

Advantages: very wide range of applications, great usability

Disadvantages: not completely free, bit complicated

Mark: 9/10

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There is probably no reason to write about it. Most of you are already using it regularly.

Advantages: very simple, works pretty well, integrated with other tools

Disadvantages: very few (mainly technical issues from time to time)

Mark: 8/10

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Quick Edit is a fast lightweight document editing tool based on AJAX which does not require launching Java. Quick Edit allows you to edit office documents in your browser with basic edit features such as tables, insert images, add links to websites in your document.

Advantages: excellent usability, free, 1 gb storage

Disadvantages: online collaboration should be improved

Mark: 8/10

you already know it, right?

Advantages: you already know them, right?

Disadvantages: you already know them, right?

Mark: 8/10

solodox
Solodox is a Word Processor for creating, editing and sharing documents and projects on the .

Advantages: three languages, sharing is very easy

Disadvantages: editing should be improved, basically one service only

Mark: 7/10

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IMified is an instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo’s. Imified helps you get things done faster.

Advantages: great usability, very simple

Disadvantages: little progress since it has been launched

Mark:7/10

Advantages:very wide range of applications, great usability

Disadvantages: not completely free, bit complicated

Mark: 9/10

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2 Responses to “17 essential online tools to maximize personal and business productivity”

  1. Eric Monse on October 22nd, 2007 1:33 am

    Thanks for the productivity tips. Now if I could just stop reading blogs! - Eric Monse

  2. Robert on May 8th, 2008 6:42 pm

    May I also recommend http://www.vitalist.com

    Great personal productivity tool for those who like “Getting Things Done.”

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