There are seemingly millions of gadgets out there to make our lives easier. Surprisingly, some actually work.

One that came in handy for me the other day is actually a web service called YouSendIt (www.yousendit.com). Now I have no shares in the company, and in fact I have never actually sent anything with it. But I have received files from clients with it, including my most recent one — 468 MB of photos for an article I’m writing. Beats sending a CD by express mail!

Best of all, they have a Lite Account that is free up to 100 MB per file, and 1 GB per month. Paid services offer bigger file sizes and other features.

So what’s your favourite gadget or web service? Let us know!