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- upick, on 06/30/2008, -7/+67no.... but I only depend on Google, I feel like I'm betraying Google... It's been my best friend for the last 5 years! I find everything on it~
- upagaintwall, on 07/01/2008, -6/+65Why would you possible want to reduce dependency on Google? It never has failed me
- artsyave, on 06/30/2008, -6/+57..but but .. but I love google products! It works. Why would I change?
- sumeshpremraj, on 06/30/2008, -4/+28Many of those apps(feeddemon, Zoho, flickr, thunderbird etc) are excellent apps that can easily replace Google counterparts. Overall a nice collection, but I'd still stick to web apps because a)I love to live inside the browser (so that its the same environment when I'm on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS X) and b)I am a believer and practise cloud storage.
- MarianaPeyton, on 07/01/2008, -2/+22I would rather have all my services on Google, where they have good and reliable apps (except Flickr, which is better in my opinion than PicasaWeb).
- sparkmonkeyz, on 07/01/2008, -2/+22I guess if you really don't like google, then there are some good apps there. I have never personally met someone who doesn't like google, but I am sure there are like 5 or 6 out there.
- birdadderley, on 07/01/2008, -3/+20unless those eggs are from Cadbury!!!
- edstittle, on 07/01/2008, -3/+19I'll stick with Google.
- eldridgea, on 07/01/2008, -1/+12"When you cannot access Google . . . "
What? Help! I didn't understand that part! - str3ama, on 07/01/2008, -5/+16it's never good to have all of one's eggs in a single basket.
- P373Y, on 07/01/2008, -1/+9you misspelled *****
- csm888, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7We all need to watch Google closely, they had good apps and a great public image, but they wield enormous power, and experience shows that power like this is often misused. It is a little foolish to put such faith in a corporation, don't forget its primary objective is to make money for its shareholdres.
I'm not really bashing google, just hoping to seed some healthy doubt with the google faithful. - danielpataki, on 07/01/2008, -2/+9Why are people supporting google given thumbs down? I fully appreciate the use of alternate programs and this is a great article covering them. However, I too love Google and I won't change until I have a good reason to. All my data is backed up anyway, if Google shuts down in an hour, I'll switch then,
- UTPinky, on 07/01/2008, -2/+8You were dugg down because you were acting like an obnoxious cheerleader. Say something useful about the iPhone using cloud storage and maybe you wouldn't get dugg down but a "yippee woohoo fun stuff yaaay" will make you go down faster than a drunken prom date.
- planegray, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6Why use 10 apps when i could just use one google =)
- philadelphia, on 06/30/2008, -4/+10I'm afraid I might get the shakes if I give up my Google addiction.
- str3ama, on 07/01/2008, -2/+8always good to have an alternative to a growing monopoly.
- PBMainiac3, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6HERETIC!
- ZephyrNinety, on 07/01/2008, -3/+9I like being able to depend on Google. =] Google makes me happy. Google is just what feels right. I think it's true love, what me and Google have together. We're thinking of getting married soon and having children and growing old together after we travel the world and see everything there is to see. I love you Google, my little Cuddlecake
- Grimdotdotdot, on 07/01/2008, -1/+6Where?
Do you mean outside.com? - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+8I love Zoho and Live Photo Gallery, they are the worthy replacements !
- H3llr41s3r, on 07/01/2008, -1/+6Why would i need 10 apps when i can do all this with google?
It just doesnt make any sense, and all i can tell the article was made by a google hater.
I'll stick with google. - petebot, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Google it...
- MiNGLED, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Microsoft Office - A great, expensive replacement for the free Google Docs
- H3llr41s3r, on 07/01/2008, -1/+6We need an article that states all the things that you can do and google and that you will never be able to do with another apps.
i.e. Searching for free mp3 files"
"Type in your google bar -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 "pearl jam" you will get results for pearl jam's mp3 files, just change the name of the artist, or you can also enter the name of the song"
Try that in another search engine, it just wont work!
Gotta love Google!!!!! - antitomato, on 07/01/2008, -0/+410 Useful Apps To Reduce Your Dependency On Google
They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.
This is a ridiculous title.It should read, "10 apps you don't need to use anymore. Thank you Google!"
And if for "some reason" you can not access Google, it's because you don't have access the internet rendering those 10 apps useless too. Most diggers know this. - nighthawk419, on 07/01/2008, -6/+10Google is the future, just admit it!
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -2/+6i like google calendar, but it doesn't replace my iCal calendar though ..
- Changa, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4
No results found for "When you cannot access Google . . . ".
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q ... - keithdsouza, on 06/30/2008, -6/+9Google dominance has been a overkill, some of the apps listed here are definitely worthwhile if you want to stay away from Google products
- voleur, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4I would add netvibes for igoogle.
- dajuggernaut, on 07/01/2008, -2/+5smells like microsoft propaganda to me...
- ashakeandfrys, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3So this is the new "alternatives to MS!"? I knew this was coming
- Firehed, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3True, but Google's baskets beat the hell out of anyone else's baskets. And each of their smaller baskets sit inside one large basket, which works a lot better than trying to attach other people's baskets with string or tubes or dump trucks.
- Firehed, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2When iCal syncs correctly between all of my machines and is available from all of my portables, I'll start using it again. Accessibility is key, and having your calendar stored locally is idiotic unless you only have a single device you ever see it from.
(Yes, I know this means in about ten days, provided that MobileMe works better than .Mac). - gbarger, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3Someone needs to learn more about using google. One of the articles talked about the wonderful feature of !{website} to search a specific site that google supposedly doesn't have, when I can use site:{website} in google to do the same thing.
- H3llr41s3r, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2You are welcome too!
; ) - ivosilva, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Or testicles.
- LewisBreaker, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2I think the point the blogger has missed is that none of these google apps need too be installed on your computer and can be accessed anywhere and any time! They can also be accessed from a number of different devices unlike most of these apps.
Googles apps just work, no messing about. Why would you want to have email being downloaded to your harddrive when you have gmail? - Noriv, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3tl;dr
- ultrafez, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3Why can't blank replies be banned?
- superjamie, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Thunderbird is going to be really useful for me, so I can IMAP into my Gmail when Google is down- oh, wait...
- PabloMac, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the most useful info I have ever seen in a Digg comment. Thanx!
- V3NOM, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1I just use Google for regular old search...
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I'd rather just have to login 1 time
- nirav72, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1All of these alternatives are great. But I'm betting my money that Google will have better up-time than most of these other apps. Also, strong possibility that the market might shake off some of these other small sites over time. If they run out of money and do not have a viable business model to bring in the cash to support their infrastructure. Or they get bought out by some larger organizations like Microsoft, Yahoo or even Google. Even after buying them out, they might not do anything with it. Example: Dodgeball bought by Google.
I'm not saying you should keep all of your stuff on Google. Just that the online market is getting saturated now with Online Calendars , Photo repositories and Document managers. - aliguana, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1to use a common phrase - Google "just works". It's all about simplifying, getting stuff done, not installing a bunch of apps that you have to keep updating, with different shortcuts in each, that are data islands... with Google you have it all there, do your stuff, wash'n'go.
- doublejay1973, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1crappy blogs like Dumb Little Man partly created peoples dependency on Google. What a rag.
- H3llr41s3r, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1You are welcome
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