1. Dropbox – Transferring documents, files, movies, and pictures between computers used to be a real hassle. Now, with the installation of Dropbox on each of your computers you want to sync, you don’t have to worry about it, as Dropbox will take care of updating all of your files.

2. Digsby – Digsby is a chat application that lets you connect to all of the major chat protocols like AIM, MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, and ICQ. However, it goes a step further by storing all of your remembered settings on their central servers, so you can install Digsby on any computer, log in with your user name and password, and feel like you’re right at home.

3. Google Docs – Sharing documents which get a lot of revisions via email is a real pain. Google Docs has alleviated this pain by allowing you to share single documents and entire folders with people in your contacts list, as well as give editing permissions, or just viewing permissions.

4. Pandora – Pandora is a great music application which is run entirely online and streams music to you based on your preferences. It offers both a free and paid version, but the Smart DJ which mixes music based on 42 different algorithms makes for a great playlist.

5. ChromeOS – ChromeOS is to be Google’s flagship operating system, with several screenshots which have surfaced over the past few months. The brilliant thing about ChromeOS is that every feature is uses is accessed through the cloud, so no matter if you do your work on ChromeOS and need to access it on a Windows or Mac, you can.