On GitHub, brillout/awesome-web-apps has picked up 70 stars. Curated List of Web Apps
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Vector Magic - Convert bitmap image (.jpg, .png, etc.) to vector graphic (e.g. .svg). Con: Not entirely free: Only three free conversions per account. Pro: works surprisingly very well.
PDF
Merge
Merge documents into a single PDF
online2pdf - Pro: Free. Pro: Supports many document types: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, OpenOffice, Images, XPS, PDF, etc. Pro: Resizes documents to cover whole PDF page. Pro: Extensive layout options: outer margin, number of documents in a single PDF page, etc. Pro: Supports common page formats: Like A4, letter etc. Pro: Secure: Encrypted and secure https connection to online2pdf servers which means that only online2pdf and the user know the content of the files. Pro: compresses documents.
Smallpdf - Con: Not entirely free. Pro: Good user interface. Pro: Can merge and split PDFs. Con: No easy mix of different document types: Cannot easily convert documents of different types (e.g. an excel document and an image) into a single PDF.
jpg2pdf - Pro: Free. Con: Keeps image layout: PDF page format can vary. Con: no options at all. Pro: compresses documents.
convert-jpg-to-pdf - Pro: Free. Con: No automatic image rotation. Con: No compression: images don't get compressed leading to heavy pdf files. Pro: Supports common page formats: Like A4, letter etc.
Edit PDF content
PDFescape - Pro: Basic edition: erase content + add text/images/shapes. Con: Can't alter nor add text.
PDF Buddy - Pro: Basic edition: erase content + add text/images/shapes. Con: Can't alter nor add text.
Miscellaneous
Sandwichpdf - Makes a non searchable PDF searchable using OCR.
Text
Writebox - Pro: Line/word/chars count. Pro: text saved while typing. Pro: open and edit several texts.
WriterDuert - Collaborative Text Editor.
LaTeX
ShareLaTeX - Collaborative editing.
Overleaf - Pro: Feature Rich.
CodeCogs - Forumla elements picker. Pro: Only formulas: Only good for forumlas, not for entire documents.
RSS Reader
Feedly - Pro: Many Features.
The Old Reader - Pro: Simple.
NewsBlur - Pro: Feature rich for a premium account. Con: useless with a free account.
Communication
Chat / Video Calls
Telegram Web - Pro: End to End encrypted chat. Pro: By a Non Profit Organization.
WhatsApp Web - Pro: End To End encrypted chat. Con: Owned by Facebook. Con: Requires signup with smartphone.
Google Hangout - Web VoIP.
Skype Online - Con: Only chat and audio for now: But video should be coming.
Circ - IRC client. Con: Only for Chrome.
UberConference - Conference Calls. Pro: Reliable. Con: No video.
Web WeChat - Web based WeChat by Tencent. Con: Requires logging into WeChat on phone and scanning QR code.
Weather
Dark Sky - Pro: Very good predictions: Does better predictions in Berlin than any other weather forceast I know. (Better than weather.com which is used by Google Search and iPhones). Pro: Precipitation map over several days in the past and future. Pro: Good user interface.
Intellicast - Pro: Lot's of information. Pro: Precipitation/cloud map.
Weather.com - Pro: Hourly and 10 days forecast. Pro: Precipitation & cloud map. Con: Poor user interface.
Yahoo Weather - Con: Poor prediction: In Berlin, predictions are more often wrong than other forecasts. Pro: current cloud map. Pro: past precipitation map. Pro: sunset/sunrise time. Pro: wind.
Map
Google Maps - Pro: Lot's of features: Public transportation, traffic, satellite images, etc. Con: Slow user interface.
Here Maps - Pro: Lot's of features.
Bing Maps - Pro: Lot's of features. Con: user interface is often annoying.
Waze - Pro: Traffic information provided by peer users. Con: No public transportation. Pro: Fast user interface.
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How active is development on brillout/awesome-web-apps?
The most recent commit recorded on brillout/awesome-web-apps was 4.6 years ago, based on the GitHub push timestamp. The repository has 18 forks — one of the better signals of community interest.
Is brillout/awesome-web-apps open source?
Yes — brillout/awesome-web-apps ships under the CC0-1.0 license, which makes its source code freely readable (and, depending on license terms, forkable and reusable). Source: github.com/brillout/awesome-web-apps.
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