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Stefan Constantinescu said 11:09AM on 4-17-2006
Just a question to everyone who uses Mac's and XP, is this the same thing as the Sync Power Toy for XP?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx
I was just curious because I am researching applications for when/if I become a switcher.
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Daniel D said 11:44AM on 4-17-2006
Ill be honest stefan I got bored when I got to this bit:
Support for 800x600 screen resolution
Added a warning for users if the selected action will take some time to complete
Added brief explanations of the actions in the user interface
I dont have a clue, in fact looking at that page made me thankful I use a mac and that none of its relevant if they are similar or what click on both websites and compare and contrast the two. Good luck also I might have spelled relevant wrong im not sure so if I have I apologise in advance.
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Stacey said 12:12PM on 4-17-2006
Yes! That is what I was waiting on.
Stephan, to answer your question, BackityMac is a backup tool, not a syncing tool.
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Oliver Andrich said 12:19PM on 4-17-2006
Well, I tried BackityMac vor some days now and was quite satisfied. But yesterday I had to restore a subset of the backuped data, that means just Addressbook data from my "office" backup set, and backitymac crashed. Same for older versions too. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.
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David Chartier said 12:23PM on 4-17-2006
Honestly Stephan it looks like this SyncToy stuff is yet more 'let's make it as complex as we can because that's the way these things work' crap from Microsoft.
The most experience I personally have with an application/service that serves the same purpose is with Apple's .Mac, which offers an iDisk. The iDisk is basically a drive, nay a 'folder' of sorts, that sits on your desktop. You can save files to it just like any other folder or external drive that you might plug in, but the iDisk (and 'just make it work' services like it) automatically syncs all those files up to an online hard drive on Apple's .Mac servers. It's beautiful: you save a file into the iDisk or a directory inside it, and Mac OS X automatically syncs it up to an online server.
You can then either get to those files from a web interface at mac.com, any other Mac that you entier your .Mac credentials into, or even from a Win2K/XP PC. The beauty is that other Macs can sync that iDisk as well, automatically, in the background.
Brainless, painless, 'did I remember to move that file over or grab the most recent version?'-less.
I know there are other similar services offered by web hosting providers, as .Mac and the iDisk are simply built upon web standards like WebDAV - which is yet another beauty: these are great services and Apple bakes them into the OS, but they're built on simple web standards that others can develop, roll their own versions of, etc.
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