I’ve tried many different password keepers, some free and some not. For the PC, I found that Roboform was great. It remembers your passwords, logs you in, even fills out forms for you. But it doesn’t play at all with the Mac. For the Mac, I found 1Password works great. Same functionality as Roboform (plus syncing to the iPhone). However, it doesn’t play with Windows. (Sure, you can import and export between the two, then use something like Dropbox to sync them, but it’s a hassle and isn’t real-time.) So, now I’ve got two great systems and neither one easily communicates with it other, so passwords on my PC can’t be found on my Mac.

That’s where LastPass is perfect. LastPass works with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. So, you can use it on your PC and Mac. It stores all of your passwords, ENCODED, on their server. You log into the extension in Firefox for example, (please use a STRONG password!) and it provides the same great functionality of Roboform or 1Password, but all your passwords are SYNCED!

And, if you visit a computer without LastPass installed, just go the LastPass web site, log in, and there are all your websites with passwords. (No longer do you have to bring a sticky pad with your login information around when you travel.)

If you have lots of passwords and want a great, easy-to-use FREE password keeper that syncs (via cloud), then check out: LastPass.

In other words, you can write up your ideas from work, edit them in the car, tweak it some on your friend’s browser, and have it complete to print out when you get home! You can tag your ideas, like Yojimbo, to make it easy to organize and find. Evernote will even search within your PHOTOS for text to add as tags!

So, let’s say you want to write a journal of your life and work on it wherever you go. Or, a blog article (yep, this one was an Evernote). Or, you find a cool product on the web — take a screen shot and save it for later. Or, for researchers, it’s perfect for keeping track of those “finds”!

Sounds good so far, right?! Well for FREE, it is good! But for $5/month you can also sync any type of FILE, not just photos, pdfs, and text with the free account. Wow! You could even skip Dropbox if you upgrade!

Evernote is a great way to keep your thoughts in sync: a notepad in the clouds…

Dropbox allows you to easily set up a “cloud” storage space that can sync between your computers. That’s 2GB of FREE storage that you can share, backup, or sync files with.

I’ve tried many solutions and found that Dropbox is one of the easiest. Once you’ve signed up for a free account, you download the install and run it on each machine you want to sync up. It installs on PC, Mac, even Linux. You can set up hidden or public folders, even share your photos with others through it.

I’ve used Dropbox since it was in beta, with only one problem — I was running an older version on one of my computers; upgraded and all synced again!

How does it compare to some other solutions? It’s similar to both Syncplicity and Microsoft’s livemesh, though for me, both of those solutions were more difficult to get set up (and for livemesh, a pain on updates).

If you are looking for a fast, easy, CROSS-PLATFORM and FREE solution to file storage and syncing, check out Dropbox.

Sign up now and Dropbox is offering an extra free 250Mb to their 2GBs of storage!