Dropbox is a small and easy to use application that allows you to save a copy of your work in the 'cloud' (somewhere on the internet). You've probably seen that before, but where it shines is it synchronises the files on your computer that you specify with the online folders, all without doing anything other than saving them in a chosen folder.

It goes further - you can install the software on a different computer and it will synchronise the files to that computer as well. Save a file at work to your dropbox folder, when you get home it will be in the same folder on your home computer. Amend it at either location and it updates at the other automatically, pretty cool.

The final bit of magic is it will allow you to share folders of your choosing with other dropbox users. For example, you can share a photos folder with your family members and suddenly sharing photos with those people is a doddle, just put a photo in the folder and it's available to everyone else you shared it with, so much simpler than faffing around with email.

At the moment the software is in the testing phase (beta) and is free. Whether it can be sustained as a free service remains to be seen, plenty of other companies offer free online file storage but to my mind not with the simplicity this offers.

www.getdropbox.com