27 July 2008 408 views No Comment Print This Post  Email This Post

Lately, I faced a problem that probably a lot of academics who use several computers have.

How to synchronize all my working files between my computers?

I have a MacBook Pro at work and an iMac at home. To share my files between the two computers, I used my iDisk of the Apple MobileMe service (formerly known as .Mac). This solution worked ok, even though I had several problems with the synchronization between the local and remote iDisk.

As I recently got a Tablet PC (HP Compaq 2710p) running Windows XP, I wanted to find a good way to sync three machines. I could continue to use my iDisk. However, it wasn’t convenient to mount the iDisk drive on Windows XP.

After some browsing on the very good Lifehacker website, I found and tested a service called SugarSync. I was amazed by its simplicity and reliability. Since they offer a 45-days trial, I started to use the service. It gave me entire satisfaction for my needs (sync, backup, web and iphone access). I decided to pay the little amount of $24.99/per year (for 10GB of storage). Usually, I try to use free online service. However, I did not find any tools with the same quality as SugarSync at that point of time.

Furthermore, both famous technology columnists David Pogue (New York Times) and Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) reviewed SugarSync and also found it to be a great synchronization service.

Here below is the video of the review of Mossberg. It will give you more details of about SugarSync if you want to use it.