Did you ever have the need to have some your files available everywhere? I think every programmer would like to store some files in a place where they are always reachable. Of course a possible option would be to simply bring with you a USB stick, but IT people like to make their life more complicated than necessary.
I just discovered a nice tool called dropbox. It requires to install a client on your machine and permits you to share a folder of your file system. When you drag and drop a file in this particular forlder this would be automatically stored on a remote server and shared with the other machines where you installed the dropbox client.
I installed it in the Ubuntu 8.10 machine I use at work and I will install it in my laptop with Windows Vista I used at home. I still do not know if it is very convenient, but I think the idea of having the possibility of synchronizing files among different machines simply dragging and dropping them is not bad. In order to have it running you must create an account and you will be given 2 gigs available for free, which is probably enough to share the files you cannot do without.
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