I have multiple computers – one for work, one for home and then there’s my iPhone, which you can pretty much consider as a computer. It’s really important to me that I have access to the same data and files. And I must say, I’m really happy with my current set up.

*I’m NOT being paid to say this!* I use this service called Dropbox which synchronizes your files between computers. It does that basically by making a copy of what you wanna sync to their servers. You need to download their software and place your files in a designated directory. Then voila~ you can have the same files on all your computers. The software you download will make sure every time you update a file, the newer version is synced up. What happens then is that I work on something at work and I just shut off my computer at the end of the day and go home. There’s nothing I need to copy to a USB drive and I don’t need to take my laptop home. Nice, huh?

But of course it doesn’t stop there. I also wanna have access to the same bookmarks on different computers ’cause I spent a lot of time online after all. For this, I use a browser plug-in called Xmarks. With that, whatever bookmark I save on one computer will show up on whatever other computers I have using Xmarks.

And then I also wanna make sure I have access to my e-mails everywhere I go. I stopped using a client software a long time ago. I use Gmail to aggregate my different e-mail accounts and I can access Gmail everywhere, even on my iPhone!!!

Not to mention I can access Facebook and Twitter everywhere since they are web services already. I gotta say I love how I have a fairly consistent “computing experience” because my data, files and even “social experiences” are pretty synced up wherever I go.

But of course there’s still the issue that I have different OS on different computers and have somewhat different versions of MS Office applications. There are some things I need to adjust for each computer and sometimes there are file compatibility issues, too, with my documents. But all in all I love how these technologies or services can help me stay “connected” and I can’t wait for when more of what we do is on the “cloud.”