Really and truly, you gotta love Mark/Space. These guys just get it. From understanding how your Palm and Mac should work together, all the way over to making a Blackberry and Windows Mobile phone play nice with a Mac, Mark/Space scores big every time.
SyncTogether is no exception. Over the past month I have been looking at various titles to keep my Macs in perfect harmony. There are a lot of apps out there that offer this usability, since some of them are better than others, I wont name them here. But if you're running data from your Smartphone (in my case a Treo 755p) and two or more Macs, perfect synchronization can become a daunting task. Most of the time, I will remember to sync one machine and forget the others. Or enter a new contact on the laptop and forget to enter it on the Desktop, and then a week later it makes it to my Treo. When you have a lot of information floating on a daily basis, forgetting simple things like syncing number or a task is easy.
With a Mac, a good way to service this need is iDisk. But early last year I decided to not renew my membership because I didn't use it, and for what I used it for, I felt as though I was paying a hefty sum at $99 a year. This is what eventually lead me to my pursuit of the BEST application to keep my machines in Sync, a task previously handled by iDisk (very slowly I might add).
The apps that I tried first all fell into the categories of either being design for one function, I.E. iCal, or two or more conduits that I didn't really need. Then I remembered SyncTogether.
Here is the one thing that sticks out about SyncTogether. If you're using any other Mark/Space app (I use MissingSync) it not only keeps your Macs Sync'd up, it also keeps a few of those MissingSync conduits up to date on up to three Macs. Conduits such as "Call Logs, SMS Messages and Notes". This I liked right away.
The standard fare conduits include: Address Book contacts, iCal events and tasks, Notes and memos, Selective syncing of Address Book groups, iCal calendars, and notes categories, Apple Mail account settings, signatures, filters and smart mailboxes and Safari bookmarks. After my first Sync I knew I had found the solution I was looking for. SyncTogether quickly and seamlessly made all of my Macs one cohesive unit of info.
Setup was as easy as any other Mark/Space application. Select which Mac is going to be your primary, set the others to receive, give each a password and choose if you want SyncTogether to constantly sync whenever something new is entered, or if you want to do it manually. NOTE: Choose Manually on your first Sync. Then simply hit Sync and BAMM!! You're all hooked up.
SyncTogether has just been updated to work with Macs running Leopard. I have yet to put the new OS on my machine, but I can't see any reason why v1.0.2 wouldn't be just as good if not better than the previous 1.0.1 version that I am currently using.
Features at-a-glance
Mac-to-Mac synchronization for up to three users
Add additional users in groups of three
Selective sync keeps personal information private
Syncs contacts from Address Book
Syncs calendar events and tasks from iCal
Syncs Safari bookmarks
Supports other Sync Services-savvy apps, like Mark/Space Notebook, Bare Bones Yojimbo, Panic Transmit and others
Sync manually or automatically on a schedule
Bonjour networking supports local network sync
Supports IP and domain name addressing for advanced users
No annual subscription fee required!
Mac System Requirements:
PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, or Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.4.8 Tiger or later.
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or later.
Internet connection for product registration
Local Area Network (LAN) connection between shared Macs or for remote syncs the user must know the physical IP address of all the computers being synchronized and have Internet access.
Now for the rough part. For all my praise of this application I have to tell you, it's pricey. Clocking in at a hefty $49.95. But believe me, If I didn't think SyncTogther was worth your investment I wouldn't spend time reviewing and writing about it. When you consider that if you're using a Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm or iPhone, SyncTogether ability to use some of those conduits present in any of those MissingSync versions makes this a very, very good tool.
I highly recommend any multiple Mac user try this one out.
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