Despite all our best efforts, there will be times when you have to work at a remote office, a customer’s site or whilst on the move from one location to another (train, plane or in a cab).  The following tools when used together provide the ultimate resource for ensuring information is easy synchronised between all your different working locations:

For copying bookmarks – Xmarks
Xmarks originated as a Firefox only add on, but is now available for all major search engines including mobile platforms and on-line enquiry, and is used to synchronise bookmarks between locations.   Bookmark a useful web resource at home or whilst working off site, and the same bookmark magically appears on all other computers you login to.

For copying snippets – Evernote
Whether its snippets of source code, pictures, text for documents, technical information or any other form of document, Evernote provides a snippet synchronisation tool.  Snippet is actually a bad description as each snippet can be many pages in length.  Any snippet captured will be available in your on-line catalogue, and will be downloaded to all other computers you use next time they are switched on.  Evernote provides clever searching and categorisation facilities, links into mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile etc) for mobile searching and capturing (including photos), and will even perform text recognition (OCR) on text within photos for searching – very useful for taking photos of somebody’s business card.  Capturing can be from Windows, Mac or most web browsers.

For easy access to files – Dropbox
Dropbox is designed to be a chargeable product, but as long as you stay within the file sizes and total content limits (1 to 2Gb depending on file types), it provides a free service for synchronising your important files into a secure location on the cloud.  Interface is with Windows File explorer (or mac) and appears as a logical directory on your computer – copy the files to the new directory, and the files are then easily accessible to any other computer.   Copy shortcuts, and any changes to your local copy of the files are also copied into the cloud.