I’ve been using Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) for a while to sync my most important documents. Works like a charm and works on both my Windows computer, my virtual Windows machine on the laptop as well as under Ubuntu. I have to restart the computer now to see if it works but I just tried to install the deb-package for 8.04.
Other neat features, apart from getting your docs synced on several computers, with Dropbox is the ability to access your documents from a webpage and to share folders with your friends.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on Dell Latitude D820 
I forgot to comment this, but it works like a charm, really, really nice program that you should checkout. Also check out this link https://810intrepid.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/dropbox-tinyurls-trickdropbox-tinyurls-trick/
[…] November 9, 2008 · No Comments Just stumbled across this post on ubuntu-tutorials.com which has a rather nice tip for those using public links in dropbox which I wrote about eariler […]