I use more than one computer, and quite a bit. I use three regularly, and two or three more on occasion.
But this seems to be a surprise to many programs.
I want to carry certain things with me from machine to machine, access them from anywhere, and have changes propogate across.
Things such as:
- Bookmarks
- newsrc files (to mark which Usenet articles are read)
- mail (solved with my OfflineIMAP program)
- A small set of files
- Contacts
- Calendar/scheduler (appointments)
Now, MacOS X seems to do some of this with their for-pay mac.com service. But I wonder why so few other apps do this out of the box?
The newsrc question is a particularly difficult one to crack, it seems. There are various schemes for synchronizing bookmarks, but none seem to work reliably.
Sigh.
Comments
Thu, 21.08.2008 02:22
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Thu, 21.08.2008 00:48
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Wed, 20.08.2008 22:00
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Wed, 20.08.2008 21:54
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Wed, 20.08.2008 20:47
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Wed, 20.08.2008 20:17
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Wed, 20.08.2008 19:29
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Wed, 20.08.2008 19:03
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