The first of four main services I’m going to highlight is the simplest: Delicious social bookmarking. This is a free service that lets you first put all your current bookmarks online for easy access anywhere, then once you’ve done that You’re ready to start using Delicious for what it was really designed for. This service is widely popular and has plugins for every major browser that make this new way of bookmarking as simple as your usual command-D or “New Bookmark” button. Here’s how it works, you bookmark a site with Delicious and you can add tags to the site to help you remember what type of content it had, then you can search those tags later on to find some bookmark you made years ago to find that perfect italian restaurant in Little Italy, San Diego. The next fun part about Delicious is now you have your bookmarks online so you can easily access them anywhere, not only that you can add bookmarks to Delicious from any computer, even if it’s not yours and even if it doesn’t have a plugin installed!
Next up is Evernote! This is a note taking and bookmarking application that lets you organize information for a project, or even just keep a list of wines in your cellar. Your Evernote notes can include text, pictures, links, whole web pages, pretty much anything you want to save for later. The saved notes can be accessed on your local computer, online, or on your iPhone.
Dropbox is as simple as it gets for syncing files across computers anywhere in the world! You literally just sign up online, download the application, and then you are all set to go. Put any files you want to sync across to another computer or just backup online. Simple and easy!
Last but most definitely not least is Google. Google apps are easy to use because if you have a Google account, you already have free and easy access to all of the services they offer. The list of services they offer is out of control, they offer everything from calendars to a photo sharing resource Google has a wide gamut of choices of awesome and helpful applications that can all be used anywhere and saved right to your account online for access anywhere.... for free!
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