iSync rules!
I love iSync. I also use .Mac and multi-computer syncing is the killer features, IMHO.
I use Address Book, iCal, and Safari, and syncing all this info between home, my laptop, my girlfriend's laptop, and work machines is invaluable. And I can't wait to get a snazzy bluetooth phone so its in the sync loop too!
Sure, I could manually export and update all my Macs at once, but what a pain!
Anyone else want to share their syncing experiences, iSync, .Mac, or otherwise?
I use Address Book, iCal, and Safari, and syncing all this info between home, my laptop, my girlfriend's laptop, and work machines is invaluable. And I can't wait to get a snazzy bluetooth phone so its in the sync loop too!
Sure, I could manually export and update all my Macs at once, but what a pain!
Anyone else want to share their syncing experiences, iSync, .Mac, or otherwise?
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After I killed my PowerBook and replaced it with an iBook, I use Backup to automatically do it's thing every single day to my .Mac account.
All my contacts in Address Book, my work schedule in iCal, iTunes playlists, Safari, Keychain - backed up everyday.
Works great on phones too. Who wants to enter all those munbers manually?
It works great.
One very annoying thing about the iSync app is for some inexplicable reason it will 'beep' and do a dock icon bounce every-time it runs.
iSync and .Mac allows me go get close to the "pervasive computing" goal - everything I need is with me wherever I am whether I'm at my desktop, laptop, phone or listening to music.
Oh, one more thing in the sycing world - if, like you, you're forced to use MS Exchange then you can use Snerdware's AddressX and GroupCal (www.snerdware.com) to keep your OS X Address Book and iCal in sync with exchange - all to avoid having to use Entourage because Thunderbird is sooo much better.
Originally posted by Scott
I wish iSync would work with groupwise. I still use palm desktop. iCal and Address book kind of suck.
Always on the negative, Scott.
I don't know why this is so foreign to most IM users. After using IM with full names for over a year, I couldn't imagine switching back!
Now if only iChat's IM groups could tie-in with my Address Book collections.
iSync is a bit weird on me with Address Book sync.
I have 2 Macs and my Nokia 6600 all synched
sometimes I get duplicates of addresses, some old ones pop up again, etc. Its annoying as hell.
I dont know if its a Nokia problem or a Mac problem/ The 6600 is a first gen and I 've never updated it... I never have the time.