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Sync data without .Mac
I think it's
safe to say that the most attractive feature of .Mac is the ability to synchronize data
between Macs (next to those exclusive Dashboard widgets, of course). Wouldn't it be nice to sync your bookmarks,
calendars and contacts, plus Mail accounts, rules, signatures, and smart mailboxes to all of your Macs for free? MildMannered Industries shows you how.
Using MySync, you set up one machine as the "master" and others as the "slaves." The process uses the Apple Sync Engine that's built into Tiger, and once you've got everything set up, you can configure the slaves to sync automatically on a quarter hourly, hourly, daily, or weeklybasis, or leave syncing to be activated manually.
MySync requires Tiger and is free.
[Via What Do I Know?]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
icerabbit said 2:07PM on 12-21-2005
I hope they can work out the LAN sync part. That would be a godsend for syncing a few larger datasets between machines. Over the internet and/or .mac is just too slow.
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Brian said 5:00PM on 12-21-2005
Any ideas for synching if I don't have Tiger and don't want to run it on an aging G3 iBook (other than upgrading the iBook, that is)? :)
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Shane said 6:19PM on 12-21-2005
Wow, will this work with e2Sync? www.e2sync.com If so, this will truly be a God-send.
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Shane said 6:36PM on 12-21-2005
Wow, my comment vanished... Anyway, I was saying, that I hope this works with e2Sync, the Entourage conduit, because right now you have to use .Mac, there's no choice. If this works with e2sync, then Entourage can now also sync between multiple Macs without requiring .Mac. pretty exciting.
http://e2sync.com
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