Last night I finally installed Dropbox at the urging of my friends. It really is amazing!

You sign up for free and download an application that installs a folder on each computer. When you want to transfer a file to a different computer, simply put it into the Dropbox folder and it appears in the corresponding folder on the other computer almost instantly.

Other features that I really like are

• A public folder that is accessible to anyone – just give them a link to the file they want and they can download it.
• Private shared folders – this creates a matching folder in another user’s Dropbox folder and anything you put into it will sync to their computer as well. We’ve already used this for transferring files among the people I work with. The possibilities with this one are endless.

This is everything that MobileMe’s file syncing should be, but isn’t. Try it.

Disclaimer: If you sign up to Dropbox using the links here, we’ll both get a little extra free space in my account.