There is a nice Renaissance going on in the world of online applications. Increasingly we are seeing great little online gadgets that can genuinly improve your workday. Yes, these tools are incredibly geeky and for a niche web-centric audience. But they won't stay that way.

Here are a few that have just crossed my desk:

Dismayed about trying to find a way for visio to be cross platform for your Mac friends? Don't be. here is Gliffy.
http://www.gliffy.com/

Feel the need to set your type in twelve faces and font sizes before you strike gold? Go here first and see if this can't save you time.
http://typetester.maratz.com/

Do you like the webdeveloper toolbars on IE and Firefox, but you still are feeling like you wanna tweak more of the DOM? Check out the featureset on this baby:
http://www.getfirebug.com/

This isn't really an online app, but can help alot. Do you just HATE the way IE overwrites itself on your windows system so you can't install previous versions? Try this:
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Ok ok, you are right, there ARE online solutions for comparative browser testing too. And free ones! The browser alternatives here are limited, but it is still worth your time.
http://browsershots.org

I won't even go into the 20 or so really impressive color combination tools or the online photo editing tools, I will get to those later.

What cool online applications are you playing with these days?

Labels: developer, geek, online application