Few days back, my brother mailed me asking a solution to one of his problems. He wanted to know it there’s any way he can work on the documents and files in his Google Docs accounts – meaning spreadsheets, presentations etc – offline on different computers and have them synced with Google Docs, just like [...]
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Are you looking for a way to sync your local documents to Google Docs in real time? Well, if all you want is a tool that will automatically track any changes you make in your documents and reflect the same on the clouds then we have just the right thing for you. KumoSync is a [...]
We use our browsers across many devices these days…from a desktop computer to a PDA. Carrying our bookmarks and other browser data across all these devices saves us from duplicating our data and effort. That’s why if you are a Firefox fan, you will appreciate the default Firefox Sync tool that helps you backup and [...]
The first time I set eyes on Microsoft Outlook was at my cousin’s suggestion. He’d loved how it aggregated all his mail into one central location, and how he could write mail when he was offline and have it send out right when he got internet access. I had set up my Outlook profile back [...]
Dropbox is one of the most common names that comes to our mind whenever we hear the word cloud storage. No doubt Dropbox is stable and reliable and beyond doubt, one of the most widely used cloud storage services with a large user community but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other good alternatives around. [...]
It’s said about life and sports that if you do the basics right, everything will fall into place. The same think can be said about the simple job of backing up your files, folders, and vital data. The simplest jobs should be done with the simplest of tools. Bvckup – a free, real time Windows [...]
Hardware failure and system crashes are not uncommon events. One night you are working on your computer without any problem and next morning when you wake up your computer fails to boot. Suddenly you realize you are in a big mess as the last backup you made was about a week old and all your [...]
With so many thoughts and ideas, people scramble to put them to paper so they aren’t forgotten. Some prefer the good ol’ Moleskine notebook, but it can be awfully inconvenient when it gets lost or if you’ve left it at home. Instead, a lot of people are looking to the cloud for keeping their notes [...]
If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch then you could use this app called Wi-Fi Sync that lets you sync the device wirelessly with iTunes on your computer. So no need to connect it again and again to get those new playlists and podcasts. Check out the following guide to see how it [...]
Instapaper is an online application that has allowed a ton of users to save their articles and read them later. With a simple click of the mouse, the article is saved into an Instapaper account, which each user can visit to read their saved articles. Furthermore, Instapaper has an option for text-only reading and archiving [...]
When your work and data is spread across multiple devices (like laptop, cellphones, iPad etc), it is important to keep the files synchronized so that you aren’t dependent on one device. There’s no dearth of file sync tools. Some of them, like Syncback and Dropbox we’ve already covered. Like synchronizing with external devices is important, [...]
TitanPad is a nice, real time, online document editing and collaboration tool that helps you quickly collaborate on text documents with your team. You can import text file, HTML, Word, or RTF file formats. Also, you can download the document as HTML, Plain text, bookmark file, Microsoft Word and in more formats. To use this [...]
Sometime back, we discussed Dropbox, an ultimate tool for backing up files and keeping data in sync. After installing this application on your PC, you get “My Dropbox” folder in which you can put any files or folders, and it will get backed up and synchronized automatically. Suppose you want to backup different folders at [...]
Backing up files and keeping data in sync is important, especially since now we don’t stick to a single device for our computing needs. We have mentioned file backup and sync using Syncback, Windows backup and restore method, and apps like Back4sure for your data backup and sync needs. But today, we’ll talk about a [...]
In part 1 of this post, we discussed how to sync files and folders on Windows using Syncback’s free version. In this post, we’ll talk about using it to backup, sync and restore data. The steps are more or less the same. Check them out. How To Backup Data Using Syncback Download and install Syncback. [...]
Using a sync backup software to sync files and folders with an external drive or an online storage location is essential if you’ve got important data on your PC and don’t want to lose it in unfortunate circumstances like a hard drive crash. Syncback is a feature-rich freeware for Windows that helps you backup and [...]
If you have made the switch to Chrome and don’t use any other browser then you might as well make use of its inbuilt bookmarks sync feature. The bookmarks sync feature in Google Chrome backs up your browser bookmarks to your Google account and syncs them when you are on Chrome on a different computer. [...]
Sometime back, we told you about Notapipe, a tool for online document collaboration in real-time. It had some nice features like changes appeared in real-time, online chat, syntax highlighting etc. But this tool came with some limitations like user registration, limited to two users etc. Today we will talk about a similar tool known as [...]
Himanshu wrote about using Xmarks to sync bookmarks across different browsers and how to set it up. Honestly, I had never used the service before. Not that I didn’t know about it, but, I was too lazy to try it out. But, after the post was published that day, I decided to give it a [...]
