There's been quite an upsurge over the last couple of years on the net of web2 sites and applications. Ajax is apparently the technical webcode stuff behind it all - and here was me thinking it was something you used to clean the scum marks from round your bath.

Anyway I decided to list my top 3 'couldn't live without' applications that I've found on the net and grown to love.

Coming in at No. 3:-

Zoho.com On the whole Zoho is free. If you're a business then there are some paid for applications on there but for the casual user it's a boon. Amongst its many uses it has an online Word Processor, definitely on a par with MS Word and you can save your documents on line so that you can access them anywhere. You can collaborate on documents with other users if you need to.

I personally find Zoho planner the most useful thing on there. I can put all my appointments, to-do's and notes in one place and it will send reminders to me by email. You can sign up using your Yahoo or Google log-in details if you want - so one less username and password to remember.

At No. 2:-

Ubernote.com I have found this to be really useful. Call it a filing cabinet to store all the stuff you come across while on or off the net. You can add links from websites to it via the uberMark tool on your toolbar or you can add whole web pages via uberclip. Add notes, add to-do lists, and file them all under tags. You can also search your notes. Best of all, if you use Firefox web browser Ubernote have just released a new add-on which gives you a drop down list from your toolbar of everything you have on ubernote contained in a little box in the top right hand corner of your screen, so now I'm truly hooked.

And the best, the absolute most useful tool ever to have graced my screen, yes it's.......nooo, not bcuk

NETVIBES netvibes.com. My No.1 simply the best, absolutely just could not be without.

My launchpad into the world wide web. This is my homepage. It works a bit like igoogle only a million times better. I've been using it probably about 18 months now. You just personalise it with widgets and there are loads of them - hey bcuk, once again you don't feature on there. Isn't it about time bcuk started promoting themselves a bit more out there in virtual land? Anyway, it's all online so you create a username and password, tell your computer to remember the password, set it as your homepage and you will have everything you could ever need at your figertips - always. And if you stray from home and feel you need it at work, or at a mates or in the library, just log in and hey presto you have a feed showing you your latest 5 emails received to your google account, a big posh clock to tell you the time, a bookmarks widget listing all your favourite bookmarks neatly organised with tags. Yes your favourites folder is no good on your PC at home if you're in the library. You can have different pages under tab headings with different widgets on each page. I have a page dedicated to keeping feeds of all your interesting blogs. I have a weather feed to tell me what I already know - that it's raining. News feeds and so on and so on.

It's latest tool is a google search bar that will save your search results to a tab on your page until you decide you no longer need it in which case you just delete. And all decorated to my own taste - bright pink and full of lovehearts ( gosh I'm such a chav).

So there you go, sorry it's a bit long, my enthusiasm knows no bounds. Anyway if you didn't already know about those groovy little applications I hope you'll try them out and if you have any of your own favourites leave a comment and share.