North Florida Technology Consultants

Simple Solutions: Chrome Web Apps

One of the things I get asked quite frequently is if I can recommend an inexpensive software to do a certain job. I can usually answer these questions with an open source alternative to a comercial package but lately I have been looking to the Chrome Web Store for these types of solutions.

The Chrome Web Store is linked to Google’s Chrome web browser that is stedily gaining popularity. Once you have Chrome installed you have access to a large number of web based applications. The apps are usually inexpensive or free and can perform a number of tasks from photo editing and mind mapping to drafting and just plain old time wasting (I’m looking at you Angry Birds).

One of the benefits to using web apps is that you dont have to install anything onto the hard drive of your computer and have 8 different free photo editing packages cluttering things up. Also since most of the apps are free there is not much to lose when trying them out and you can usually read revies and see what is popular with other users. The success of Apple’s App Store has changed the landscape a bit for finding quality applications and that has been applied here to thousands of web based applications making it easier to find the apps that meet your needs.