The Happiness Project 40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great. While the web apps and sites we love are powered by servers, usually running Linux with Apache, MySQL, and more, our browsers feel more like the “operating system” on which web apps run. We’ve gathered the best tips we can find to help you get the most out of web apps, both from the apps themselves and the browsers you use to access them. Accounts 1. You’ve likely already got way too many online accounts. Today, many apps let you sign up for a new account using your Twitter or Facebook account, and many others work with your Google account. You could signup manually, but 1-click is so much easier 2. Alas, everything doesn’t have a 1-click signup button. There’s a number of ways to keep your email more private. 3. 4. 5. Security 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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