If you are often out of the office and need to take files along, a USB stick is an easy solution. But some techies are now looking at another option--services like Syncplicity and Dropbox that automatically synchronize digital files and folders across multiple computers.

Syncplicity, Dropbox and other data management services work by piping up data from a customer's computers to the "cloud storage" of Internet servers, saving the information there and then downloading it to the user's other computers. Syncplicity is designed for Windows while a version for Macs will be released shortly. Dropbox is now in a test version and works with Macs and Linux-based systems as well as with PCs. Both have encryption programs for security needs.

For more on cloud files:
- see this New York Times article

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