Google Announces Document and Spreadsheet Service

Are you tired of e-mailing documents between your school and home computer or saving them to a flash drive?  Wouldn't it be nice to have some documents accessible from any computer and be able to share them with others who are working on them with you?  With the introduction of Google's document and spreadsheet service, you can access your documents and spreadsheets from any computer with an Internet connection.  According to Google, the new service allows you to edit and spell-check documents, upload Word documents, download documents to your PC in Word, PDF, or other formats, and view the editing history for each document.  You can also share your documents with others so that you all have the ability to edit the document.  You'll need to create a Google account in order to use this free service, and of course, there are some who aren't particularly comfortable with being subjected to "Google's prying eyes," as Steve Bryant notes here.  But for those of us who just want to use a reliable method of transferring lecture notes or classroom exercises from work to home, Google's service is a welcome innovation.