More Great Free Web Applications

After my last post about Windows Live and lots of other online applications, I remembered one, Backpack. Backpack works a virtual desktop sort of thing for keeping all your to-do lists, notes, files, photos and such online in one place. And other apps from the same company, 37Signals (they rock), include Ta-da Lists, a way to create and share to-do lists online, Writeboard, a collaborative writing app that has a cool version-tracking feature that lets you compare different versions of a document. And their flagship program, Basecamp, a project management application that lets you store notes, schedules, to-do lists, writeboards and more -- and the basic version (1 project max.) is, like the other 37Signals apps, completely free.

I really dig the 37Signals philosophy of software design -- it's all about 'less software', keeping it simple, not trying to make software that does everything, but to make it so that what it does, it does well.