Handy On Travel; Online Word Processors (Part 1)

I’m sure there may have been numerous times where there were no word processing software around you when you needed to write something important (I’m not talking about Notepad or WordPad). It could even be that you needed to access an important file away from the office but there was no way of doing that? Yes, these are some common experiences we all share and there are number of solutions given for this problem. One important and effective solution is online word processing facility where it also supports collaborative editing/reviewing. In this short article, we are trying to briefly focus on few of the popular online word processors.

AjaxWrite – This word processor is based on Ajax as the name suggests and this is the online word processor with the least features and most of the hassle. AjaxWrite comes with a bundle of applications which are add-on for the word processor. These add-ons include AjaxPresents, a presentation software (similar to Microsoft PowerPoint), AjaxXLS, a viewer and editor for spreadsheets such as Excel), AjaxSketch, a graphics editor and AjaxTunes, a media player software such as iTunes . The interface is kept simple with just essential functionalities. This makes AjaxWrite not useful for people who would like to write and format in fancy ways. Toolbar is more or less like Microsoft Office 2003 toolbar and pages are interfaces as tabs. The main issue with AjaxWrite is that it doesn’t allow users to save the documents online. They need to save it in the local drive which is very inconvenient for the mobile users.

ThinkFree – This has been around for years not offering free online office suit and optionally a low cost desktop software suit. This office suit is compatible with Windows, Max OS X and Linux giving users the true mobility. ThinkFree suit has three main components as ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet viewing and editing, ThinkFree Show for presentations. ThinkFree tools are Java based tools and they resemble exact MS Office look and feel. Also, they give you a competitive set of features same as MS Office suit and what you get out of ThinkFree is more than enough for online word processing.