Using different computers is nice since I still like a desktop system, yet a laptop is definitely handy. Add a home desktop system into the mix and that means I have three systems I try to keep in sync. My wife also has her own laptop, so she has two systems to sync. There is unfortunately no silver bullet which will take care of all the syncing needs, so I try to deal with the pain points as they come.

I’ve already discussed calendar syncing, and since all my email is accessed via IMAP there aren’t syncing issues (at least not for the messages themselves). I’m a MobileMe (nee .Mac) subscriber so many other things are taken care of for me, even though I only really sync Safari bookmarks and contacts. I use NetNewsWire which already syncs over iDisk, so I’m good there as long as I somehow force a sync before going somewhere else, but I can always use screen sharing to do that if I forget.

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