Well, working in projects in a stressful environment you want to have some helpers. I just love those “killer apps” that help you rather than kill you.

I don’t know about you, but I always collaborate, and collaborative projects spread globally as locally, with external “customers” and internal you really need some tools that are accessible and
that truly supports your work.

Here are some interesting and useful tools I use.

Writely
Neat tool to shared instant online word processing (now Google Docs).
http://www.writely.com/

Foldershare
Neat tool to share and sync files in workgroups and using multiple
computers.
http://www.foldershare.com

Send Me Files
Send big files when e-mail accounts do not permit it.
http://sendmefile.com

HipCal
Shared web calendar.
http://www.hipcal.com/

ClockWork
Log time spent in projects.
http://www.clockworktimer.com

Basecamp
Web based project collaboration tool. Free to use.
http://www.basecamphq.com/

Writeboard
Shared writing.
http://www.writeboard.com/

Skype
My number one choice in conferencing right now since it can do
videoconferencing cross platforms (PC/MAC) which I like.
http://www.skype.com/

Adium
You can’t name one and skip the other, Adium is killing the competition on cross platform , multi-login instant messaging.
http://www.adiumx.com/

Netvibes
Well, yet another web-desktop but still useful.
http://www.netvibes.com/

Meet with approval
Getting the people together for a meeting ain’t easy, but this helps
http://www.meetwithapproval.com/