Microsoft's Free Sync Service By DAVID POGUE March 11, 2010
Last week, I wrote about an underpublicized gem in Microsoft's Windows Live suite of free online and offline services and programs: SkyDrive. It's a free, 25-gigabyte virtual hard drive on the Internet, accessible from any computer. My readers gently pointed out that I managed to miss an equally spectacular feature: Windows Live Sync. It's another very good, very free Windows Live service, for Mac and Windows, that everyone should know about. The problem: you have a work machine and a home machine. Or a desktop PC and a laptop that's frequently out of the house. Or a family. Or a small business. In any case, you find yourself having to copy certain important files back and forth after each trip: when you return home with your laptop, when you get to the office after doing work at home over the weekend, and so on. The solution: Windows Live Sync. You designate one folder on Computer A, and another folder on Computer B. Then Sync keeps them synced with each other, magically, over the Internet, with no effort on your part. Add, change, or delete a file on your laptop; you'll find it added, changed, or deleted on your desktop. Edit some chapters or spreadsheets on your Mac at home; you'll find them edited the same way at work. There are plenty of services like this online-SugarSync, for example-but they're not free. I'd venture that they're not even as simple. Here's how to set it up. Suppose, in this example, that you have a PC at work and a Mac at home. Suppose, furthermore, that you've already signed up for a free Windows Live account (www.live.com). ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/technology/personaltech/11pogue-email.html _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
