How do you sync?

I use DropBox.

Cons are you have to keep the files you want to sync in the program folder, but I've read the current beta version allows you to sync the folders you want.

They offer a 2 GB account for free, 50 and 100 GB plans and no unlimited data plan. If you want to give it a try, follow this link and you and I will get 250 MB more.

You could also give ChronoSync a try.

Bye

 

I wouldn't suggest trying to use your iPhone as the "key" between your devices. Use iTunes Home Sharing if you insist on having your music on both devices. For me. It's enough that my music is on my phone. Why would it then need to be on my laptop? If I have my laptop I have my phone. Thus, why use up limited storage space on something I will now have two copies of (three technically)?

I'll be using a combination of MobileMe, Dropbox and Strongspace.com for various syncing. If the stuff I've been hearing about Strongspace is true Dropbox may only be for items that also need to be on my iPad. Which is a much smaller subset of data.

Either way, I feel you need to work out the first paragraph of my response first... Why would you want three copies of your music? Just doesn't make sense to me.

 

I'm also in a similar situation - have a home theatre Mini, MBP, and iPhone. I use the theatre as main music source when at home, but if I am on the road/at friends I use the 20GB of music on my MBP, finally I use the much smaller selection on the phone for running.

For me the phone doesn't hold enough for general use e.g., picking a rare track to listen to or doing a decent Genius mix.

At the moment I sync the phone to my MBP, but am having to maintain two unsynced itunes libraries on the other machines.

Is there a sync option with Home Sharing or some other way to sync itunes libraries on different machines?

 

To keep my documents synced up I usually use a mixture of Dropbox and Google Documents. Dropbox I use for files that I want to be able to bring up on any computer I use, and to keep things I work on the most often constantly updated. Google Documents I normally use to keep documents I plan to share with other people, or that I want to be able to see at a moments notice.
I also have Google sync with my calendars through iCal, my mail through Mail and my contacts through address book. It takes some messing around with, but it has been very useful when I need to be able to get a friend's number or address or something from a friends computer or phone.

 

I feel your pain, the whole computing world seems to be in an awkward limbo between cloud and local computing and i haven't yet found a full on solution. I thought i'd add my piece though

A possible solution for your docs seeing as it sounds like you might be using iWorks is to consider iwork.com. its in beta and not quite all that it could be yet but if you use it to create your .doc copies of all your iwork documents, it means you only have the noe local iWork copy of the document and not what could be a messy option of loads of different format versions of the same document on your computer. I hope iwork.com matures into a more effortless apple-like solution which would be a cross between local document editing combined effortlessly with online. Along the same lines you could just transition fully to cloud office solutions like google docs and the like and have it all purely edited and stored online.

i wanted to use local iDisk the way it sounds like you do but I found a problem, it doesn't work well with time machine. Time machine backs up versions of the local iDisk as a whole, not versions of the individual files so when i deleted part of a document saved on my iDisk, and wanted to retrieve an old copy of the document a week later it was almost impossible. I think i had to restore a copy of the whole iDisk and fish out the file i needed. Someone please tell me this has changed in snow lepoard because this would have been such a good solution for me.

Also im not sure you fully understood a previous suggestion of using iTunes home sharing. I believe it was suggested that you use home sharing when at home to transfer (sync) all your music etc. between your computers instead of using your phone as a transfer medium. Your hardly gonna be in San Antonio and your imac suddenly thinks to itself "stonegammage might like this album so i think i'll download it for him so he can sync with me" lol. I think I also found some itunes folder syncing scripts a year or two ago that you could set to automatically sync the folders containing your music, maybe they have been updated to take advantage of "home sharing" ??? worth a google.

Hope some of this helps you. Hopefully someone else might chime in and help us both even more. Good luck

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CfT01JOiJs

this should help, just skip to 5:10

iPad sounds like a good idea for you. Yes you can transfer directly from idisk to the iPad iDisk app. You can test it out on your iPhone before you commit to buying an iPad, its the same app. Other apps that are similar but do slightly different things include air sharing and ZumoCast. iDisk app should be more than enough for what you need but thought i'd let you know about some others too

 

I use ChronoSync, DropBox and MobileMe.

With ChronoSync I can sync any folder bi directional or just off load content when I'm done.

It also syncs iPhoto great!

 

Getting Existing Mail Msgs from Apple Mail to MM

So I'm finally ready to convert from using Apple Mail to MobileMe mail so I don't have to double file/delete emails on my computer and my iPhone. I have Comcast which is POP but I will have Comcast forward emails to MM and just ignore the Comcast inbox. My question is: I have lots of mail folders and years and years worth of old emails on my computer that I would like to have for reference on MM so I don't have to be looking in two places... is there a way to do that?

This is my first post, too... thanks !