Re: Synchronize between Macs?

In article <BF275BBE.343F%kearnser@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ed Kearns <kearnser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there an easy way to synchronize applications, e.g. Quicken or Entourage
> Calendar, between a Mac and a laptop?

The easiest, most reliable, way to do this is to use the iDisk component
of the .Mac service from Apple
<http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome.woa?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en>

Just keep those files on your iDisk, and they will be saved on Apple's
servers, and mirrored to your desktop machine and laptop machine.
Changes will be synchronized on a regular schedule. If a machine is off
for a few days, it isn't a problem. I've used multiple tools for
synchronization, and iDisk is my favorite in terms of reliability and
ease of use. With the other synchronization tools, I just stopped using
them after awhile, but iDisk keeps right on chugging away, every day.

on a separate note, if you've got a desktop and a laptop, and you set
them up side by side, you'll often find yourself trying to drag the
mouse cursor to the screen of the other machine. The program Synergy
actually makes that work: when your mouse cursor leaves the machine on
the left, it appears on the machine on the right, and the keyboard and
clipboard go with it. _It_ is free: <http://synergy2.sourceforge.net>
(It also works if you've got a mix of Windows boxes and Linux boxes.)
Synergy uses TCP/IP to send the data. I've always used ethernet, but it
should work using TCP/IP over firewire.

You undoubtedly know about "Transfer Disk mode" where you boot a
Macintosh while holding the "T" key down, and the machine behaves like
an external firewire disk. It is a shame that there does not exist a
"Super Transfer mode", where the disk of one machine appears as an
external firewire drive on a second machine and the screen of the first
machine appears as a second monitor on the first machine.

It probably doesn't make sense to make the speaker, microphone, and
ethernet connectivity of the first machine available to the second
machine (surround sound, ethernet bridge). Firewire or Ethernet are
probably too slow to take it to the next level: having the processor on
the first machine appear as a second processor on the second machine.

--
David Phillip Oster
.

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