Windows only: Free application DropboxPortable makes the popular file-syncing application thumb-drive friendly, so you can access your synced bucket from your thumb drive no matter what computer you’re using.
It’s great that Dropbox allows you to access a synced bucket of files on your several computers so you know you’re always working with the latest and [...]

Ed. note: Reader Harsha Kotcherlakota wrote in to our tips box with a very detailed, very cool guide to how he uses a few Firefox extensions we’ve featured to create dedicated, always-available-yet-unobtrusive tabs for Gmail and Google Reader. Here’s how.
So here’s the deal. I like having my Gmail always open. (Who doesn’t, right?) It’s literally [...]

Windows only: Portable system-fixing bundle Computer Repair Utility Kit puts 57 recovery tools into a single package. That gives you easy access to important system utilities without the fuss of building your own toolkit.
The launcher can be run directly from the folder or copied to a flash drive for access from any system, with a [...]

Windows only: Microsoft Outlook add-on TwInbox lets you update, reply, search, and archive your Twitter messages right from your Outlook inbox.
Once you’ve installed the add-on into Outlook, you’ll need to take a trip to the Options panel to enter your Twitter account details, and you’ll probably want to choose a new folder to place incoming [...]

Android/BlackBerry: Google’s official Google Voice app for (two) mobile phones does pretty much what one would expect. It dials out using your Google Voice number, displays new voicemail transcripts and text messages, and simply makes Google Voice easier to use.
Some, if not most, of these features have previously been available in Evan Charlton’s unofficial Voice-integrating [...]