One of the problems that I have with my computers is keeping the settings the same across all of them. I have my desktop, laptop, and work computer and would like to keep things like my bookmarks the same across all of them.
I have been using del.icio.us to keep all my bookmarks and the firefox live bookmark feature to access them on each computer. While is is better than nothing, it leaves much to be desired.
I just ran into a tool from Google that should make the whole process much better. It's called Google Browser Sync and it seems to solve many of the issues.
This is a firefox plugin that you install on each of your computers and it uses your google account to keep certain things synchronized between each of your computers.
At this time they support
- bookmarks - This is the main thing I wanted
- history - Some people might find this useful
- cookies - For all the bad rap that cookies get, this is a great feature for web sites that recognize you like Amazon
- tabs - This is really cool. I could have tabs open on my home desktop, take my laptop to a internet cafe and open firefox to the same exact web site I was working on at home.
- saved passwords - This one really scares me, Do we really trust google so blindly? Sure, don't be evil, but...
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I'll have to try this out. I started using delicious as well, and have found Google's Reader for RSS feeds to be very awesome.