I’m constantly amazed by some of the apps that are being created purely for online use. Traditionally most of these apps require that they run on your desktop but converting them to cloud applications makes them completly platform independent. Here’s a list of some of my favorites so far.
Aviary.com
Aviary provides a set of online graphics tools that will challenge all those photoshop users that don’t need all of the fancy bells and whistles to create graphics for the web. The tools provided by the Image Editor are probably enough to satisfy the normal user. A great plus is a firefox extension named Tallon that rivals Jing in it’s screen capture simplicity.
Aviary Online Graphics design tools
Balsamiq.com
Balsamiq provides a set of ‘Web Office’ tools but primarily one to create quick mocks and wire-frames for websites. I love the playful drawn feeling of the end result. It’s like you drew it by hand but honestly better than anything I could draw with a pencil.
Online tools for Web Mock-ups and Wire-Frames
Gliffy.com
Gliffy is an online diagramming tool. It’s not as robust as something like visio but one of the drawbacks of switching to a Mac is that there is no real visio equivalent. This app comes really close.
Online Network Diagrams
