Reminding ourselves to do something is easy… when we’re at our computer. We simply set up an alarm, or throw a sticky-note on our monitor. What happens when you want to remember the milk? Or to send out a proposal to a prospective client? Sometimes being reminded when we’re not at our computer can help. A text message does the trick. And Oh, Don’t Forget the milk.
There are more short URL generators than you can shake a stick at. Some of these generators have been upping their service to more than just offering short URLs. The belief that doing simple things extraordinarily well will set you apart is especially true when it comes to perhaps the next big URL shortener named Cligs.
After creating a website, we want to know how we did. We want to know our traffic statistics, how we compare to similar sites, what we could improve on, and what works and what doesn’t. Detailed reports that explain how to get a higher page rank are hard to come by. WebsiteGrader.com has all those features and more.
Getting paid is essential. Making the process of getting paid simply is critical. Being able to track your payments, allow clients to pay online, maintain projects and record time sheets is spectacular. Many applications do this, but few have all the options in one place – FreshBooks does.
There are a lot of project management applications. The problem is most of them require a monthly free, and you can’t modify the code. The end of that monthly free will no doubt rise from free, open-source project-management, features-galore (eh, maybe I’m getting carried away?) project management apps, and Collabtive has a great start.
Everyone once in a while, I take take a look at the other side of web applications – the development side. After all, the web app itself and how it came to be are two sides of the same coin. After getting my hands dirty with other PHP frameworks, I decided it was time for me to do a review on my favorite. Say hello to one of the simplest and most functional frameworks out there – CodeIgniter.
Guestbooks used to be the only way visitors could communicate with the owner of a website without to copy and paste their email directly to a mail client. Things have come a long way, but the old ways are still learning a few new tricks. Ajax, PHP5, MySQL and XML are just a few of those tricks that JibberBook employs.
When creating a web application it is essential that we test to see if it will work in the “real world” before releasing it into the wild. To test our application many of us use the ever tedious “insert” command in phpMyAdmin to create dummy records. This is a long process and more often than not we simple copy the records of the one before. Generate Data fixes this.
Writing the .htaccess file for our website is a pain. Many times when I want to do something simple, I end up denying access to one part of my website or another. Another problem I run into is removing the “www” and sending visitors to specific error pages. No longer will this be a problem, thanks to .htaccessEditor.
It’s almost second nature for a Freelancers to juggle multiple projects, multiple clients, and numerous other responsibilities (What ever happened to watering that plant?). Simple Post-it notes seem to do the trick. But seeing as how our life revolves around our work, and we work online, wouldn’t it make sense to have an online to-do list? Think ToodleDo.
There seems to be hundreds of online file storage services. Why would we need another? We here at theDailyApp love simplicity, and when we came across FileSavr, we just had to share it. Say hello to a truly simple file upload and share service.
Lightbox can be confusing. Like one commenter said, it makes the user think it’s a new page and thus go “back” on their browser. What was needed was an intuitive way to display images and text neatly. With a little inspiration from Cabel Sasser and Apple, and the power of Prototype and jQuery, OrderedList just gave the web a spoonful of Fancy.
