Google has released a few nice application of late, under "beta" as always.

I have been using Browser Sync to keep my bookmarks synchronised across multiple machines. You have the option of synchronising cookies, passwords and history as well, but do so at your own peril. Do you really want your history of job hunting searches showing up on your work PC (or worse pr0n)? Will make computer forensics interesting.... the digital "evidence" will be on your PC. But I digress... Browser Sync rocks.

Google Notepad is also awesome, set up multiple online notepads that you can access from anywhere, plus there is a nice add-in for Firefox which lets you right click on text on a web page and add the text and the location to your notepad. Great research tool.


And for the Microsoft killer - Google spreadsheets. Full functioning spreadsheet in a browser, access data from anywhere and export to csv or xls files.

I find these are great apps as I use 5 computers and 3 OS's on a daily basis. Its nice to have access to these apps regarless of the machine I am on. Although it will have some interesting implications for security, using Google Notepad or Spreadsheets to smuggle data out of a company - i.e. take "note" of corporate intranet data and publish your Google Notepad as public.