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Favorites Synchronization Software

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For the longest time I wanted a program that would easily and seamlessly synchronize favorites across multiple machines. The fact that each machine has its own favorites store has made the feature rather useless to me, and I've started resorting to less then ideal means (like Outlook Notes) for storing important bookmarks.

I considered writing such a program myself (I also want one that synchronizes my Office User Dictionary across multiple machines) but just never got around to it. Well the other day I discovered FavoriteSync. This is simply a fantastic piece of free software. All you need is your email address and a password and it will replicate your favorites across any number of machines. You also have the option of storing your favorites on your own FTP rather than the Favorite Sync server.

This product really meets my expectations. It's completely transparent to me, and it works like magic. Like all good software.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    I use TweakUI to move the Favorites directory on each machine into My Documents - that way it gets synchronized (along with all of my other documents) across all machines. Easier than installing another piece of synchronization software :)
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    I knew you were going to say that. Here is why your method doesn't work:

    1) If you are using IE while you are doing a sync, IE things the Favorites folder is gone and resets the path to your local document and settings folder
    2) you can't delete items offline without a million horrible dialogs
    3) you can't delete folders offline

    ;-).
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    Another alternate way is to use online favourite and bookmark tools. They basically store the favourites on the server, so you can access them from any machine with internet access (favourites don't make sense without internet access!). And you don't need to synchronize.
    A9 and the new yahoo toolbar provide this functionality.
    (I haven't used them though.)

    Manas Singh.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    I tried FavoriteSync about a week ago and liked it, but wasn't able to access the FTP server from my office computer. I found WebMarkers (www.neware-inc.com) which works very much the same but uses HTTP for everything (or at least it appears to).
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    And with lots of favorites comes the problem with finding a specific favorite.

    If you have Office 2003, take a look at my Office Research Service for finding favorites. It uses the Office 2003 Research Services to search for a word in the favorites text. Internet Explorer also has an "Explorer Bar" for research services (View | Explorer Bar | Research).

    See my weblog entry at the next url and download installer and source at the GotDotNet workspace.
    http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/victorv/archive/2004/09/13/25402.aspx
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    you can also use your yahoo account with the yahoo toolbar and have your bookmarks anywhere you go.

    it's not really sync'ing but it gets the job done.
  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2004
    Use OneNote for Favourites!

    You don't really need favourites, you need links automatically pasted with a paragraph of relevant context! :)
  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2004
    I use http://del.icio.us for the storage of bookmarks I want to access from anywhere.

    Benefits:

    1. web-based and free
    2. tagged categorization instead of hierarchical (helpful for things you want to file into multiple places)
    3. nifty browser bookmarklets and a usable REST API (I used this to create a plug in to be able to bookmark posts right from my RSS aggregator)

    Beats pull-down-menu favorites any day, imho.
  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2004
    If your various machines are even occasionally networked, FolderMatch will sync the contents of any 2 folder trees, including the Favorites folder tree.
    <www.foldermatch.com>

    Frank Denman
  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2004
    I use Novell Ifolder to synchronize Favourites and other files.
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    June 16, 2009
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