17 July 2007
Have two computers? Get FolderShare.

Filed under Technology

This appeared on LifeHacker (such an excellent resource) two weeks ago, but it’s worth mentioning here, if only because I just went through the process: If you have >1 Win/Mac computers, and run Firefox on each, you need to do this for yourself. I spent the better part of a day customizing my Firefox profile at work: the thought of tweaking it again for home made me gag. FolderShare took a little jiggling (you’ll need to open some ports on your NAT/Firewall and disable History, a regrettable loss), but now I’m using and syncing between work and home.

Unfortunately, FolderShare has some limitations that need to be resolved: I’m a bit of a desktop packrat at work, and I wanted to grab some files. Since the documents are free-floating on the Desktop, I can download local copies (individually, ugh) to my machine here, but I can’t since the entire Desktop folder for some reason. I suppose I could downThemAll, create a local folder, and sync my work machine with that before making some changes to the documents, but that seems kinda hardcore. I guess this just means that I’ll be cleaning up my Desktop tomorrow.

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 ::  Adam