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As we become mobile, one of the biggest challenges is managing the applications and the files on different devices like personal computer, work PC and mobiles. In the era of Web 2.0, desktop applications like office suites, image editors and feed readers are getting re-engineered as online services by the Internet giants Google and Yahoo. I’m listing some of the online services one must use in day to day life.

as an online office suite

Create and store documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. It is possible to convert Google documents to MS office formats and back. Google spreadsheets provides an enhanced library of functions including import XML or HTML import and stock quotes. Documents can be shared with other users in view or collaboration mode. Document’s version history is maintained well and you can revert back to any older version of the document. A more generic use is embedding shared documents on web pages and blogs.

and as photo storage and sharing platforms

Upload, organize and share the photos online. Organize the photos by albums and give proper details like date, place and people names. Storage limit is a major drawback with both of these services. Flickr’s free edition provides unlimited storage space but allows you to access only the 200 last uploaded photos while Picasa provides 1 GB space

for sharing videos

Upload and share your videos. I use YouTube more as a storage space for my personal videos. Shared videos gain easy reachability thanks to the large user base of YouTube

for online feed subscription

Subscribe to your favorite feeds and read them online. Mark and share the favorite items with friends. For me, using Google Reader has become a routine like checking the inbox.

Google Notebook for organizing notes

Collect and organize plain text notes very easily. Notes could be organized as notebooks, sections and notes. There is a Firefox plugin to integrate notes with the browser

Delicious for managing bookmarks

Bookmark the favorite pages and manage the bookmarks online with delicious rather than marking pages as favorites in browsers of different machines. Bookmarks are centrally managed and periodically synced with the browsers. Add meaningful tags while bookmarking a page, so that it could be easily searched later. Don’t miss this firefox plugin which helps you to add bookmarks right from the browser and helps you to locate the page by typing in the tag name or page name

for managing clipped texts from favorite pages

While Delicious stores just the URL of the page and the tags, Clipmarks allows you to store the contents as well. Clipmarks comes handy when you want to clip and bookmark a part of a web page. Create an account and install a suitable clipmarks plugin for your browser from the download page. While browsing a page, just press the clipmarks button, select the content you want to clip and again press the clipmarks button to store the contents. You can make multiple selections in a page and clip them together. Just the text is stored and images are not. Clips exceeding 2000 characters can’t be shared and have to be stored privately.

Meebo for Instant Messaging

Login to the IMs of Yahoo, GTalk, MSN and AOL with a single meebo sign in. With meebo, you will be freed from installing multiple IM clients and multiple logins. Chat history is centrally located. To view a chat log, you don’t have to remember from which machine you logged on.

for task management

Create and manage your tasks with RTM. It integrates well with GMail and Google Calendar. So you can access the todo list right from your Gmail.