Personal IT - simple is better than smart.

[arpad]

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I wasted a lot of time thinking about some wise solution for online synchronization between my mailboxes and bookmarks at home, work and multiple remote locations.

Finally I got tired of it - and, urged by gholam, just bought this:

Put on it portable Firefox. Put on it portable Thunderbird. Imported 1,5 GB of my mail archives. Consolidated bookmarks files. Cleared some crap out of them all in process. And it works. The best of it - I don't need to care about sync. anymore. Because there are no sync needed. And backups become very easy - just copy paste content of disk on key to hard disk and bingo. Note: if you do the same - choose quickest possible flash drive. When I edit bookmarks the small delay is here.

Comments

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

You are lucky - the system on all your comps is the same. It's not a good way 4 sync Mac@home and PC@work...

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Yea, when you have PC+MAC - you need smart solution :( Moving to gmail in that case is advisable.

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

I already moved my work with texts to google (I need no tricky formatting). Maybe gmail is really a good choice.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

A radical solution would be installing Windows on the mac ;)

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

TOO radical :)

[(Anonymous)]

Parallels Desktop is your friend.

Zero performance penalty on latest Macs and greatest flexibility. You can keep VM instances on per customer basis.

borisk

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

I needn't windows at home. If the only problem is to sync it's too much mess 4 me to organise VMs ;) I'll better try Google solution.

[vitus_wagner]

What strange things users would do only not to use normal OS.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Huh? You mean MAC?

[vitus_wagner]

No, I mean OS, which is not arrogant enough to consider itself friend of user (user-friendly) and behaves as slave of user, as it should.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

I don't get it, sorry. I think I understand what you are saying but I don't see how using any different OS could have helped here. OS and data synchronization are completely different areas.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

An OS that behaves as a slave of user, as opposed to a huge brute of a taskmaster with a big club and a fake smile, will be wrecked by said user into a completely unusable state within minutes of installation - if not during the installation itself.

[iz-kustov-ved.livejournal.com]

Exactly %)

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

How big is yours?

[arpad.livejournal.com]

quite small - 2GB. Would have taken 4gb gt today.