Google Docs

For anyone who works remotely or travels alot google docs is an invaluable tool. Actually, once you sign up for a google account it is one of several free applications that you can utilize. This one however has revolutionized my work life. I work from home on a team with other people that work in various locations. We get together once in a while but mostly we work from our locations and try to communicate through email, phone... Google docs has allowed us to create spreadsheets, presentations and word-like documents that are live online. We can edit them while talking on the phone together. Everything is in 'real time' and automatically saved so as you update someone else can see the changes. You can upload documents from your computer work on them and then download them again if needed. I use alot of spreadsheets to track projects and it is so handy to use this tool and then share it with co-workers. It has improved our communication and productivity tremendously and eliminated the old 'I didn't get that version' excuse and others... ;-)

Take a tour: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html