{"id":419,"date":"2005-04-25T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/ShareYourWebFavoritesWithAllYourMachines.aspx"},"modified":"2005-04-25T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T20:39:42","slug":"share-your-web-favorites-with-all-your-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/share-your-web-favorites-with-all-your-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your web favorites with all your machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A while back <A href=\"http:\/\/www.shahine.com\/omar\/FavoritesSynchronizationSoftware.aspx\">Omar turned me on to<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/favoritesync.com\">FavoriteSync<\/A> as a great tool to keep your IE favorites in synch across multiple machines.&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.shahine.com\/omar\/GrooveVirtualOffice.aspx\">Omar has since moved on to Groove<\/A> but I still much prefer this light, simple tool to the heavy-handed beast that is Groove (Groove is designed to be much more than a synchronization tool, it\u2019s a Share Point-like platform with a large feature set and a start up time to match). <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Setup is fairly simple, download the installer and run.&nbsp; In order to store your favorites on the <A href=\"http:\/\/favoritesync.com\">FavoriteSync<\/A> server you will need to sign up for an account, but filling out the form and waiting for the confirmation e-mail is about as complex as it gets.&nbsp; Using the default configuration <A href=\"http:\/\/favoritesync.com\">FavoriteSync<\/A> stores your favorites on their web site but if you want to be more geeky (or more secretive) you can publish your favorites to your own ftp site.&nbsp; Other advanced options include the ability to ignore certain folders (e.g. to keep work-only stuff off your home computer\u2026 or more importantly, vice versa), publish an XSL style sheet (useful if you have your own ftp\/web site and want web-based favorites) and the ability to create multiple backup copies of your favorites.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Once installed the synchronization is automatic.&nbsp; Anytime you start IE or you change your favorites <A href=\"http:\/\/favoritesync.com\">FavoriteSync<\/A> will merge an updated copy with the copy of your favorites stored on the server (either yours or theirs).&nbsp; Your other computers will automatically pick up the changes when you next use them.&nbsp; Changes are merged if you change your favorites on multiple machines and the options allow you to tweak the sync behavior if you desire.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>With a work laptop, work desktop and a home desktop it\u2019s great to have my IE favorites finally roam to all my computers.&nbsp; The software is simple and effective, I recommend it to Windows IE users with more than one PC.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Software: FavoriteSync<BR>Web Site: <A href=\"http:\/\/favoritesync.com\">http:\/\/favoritesync.com<\/A><BR>Platform: Windows\/IE (FireFox version in beta)<BR>Cost: Free\/Donate Ware<BR>Ease of setup: 4 of 5<BR>Ease of use: 5 of 5<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Omar turned me on to FavoriteSync as a great tool to keep your IE favorites in synch across multiple machines.&nbsp; Omar has since moved on to Groove but I still much prefer this light, simple tool to the heavy-handed beast that is Groove (Groove is designed to be much more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usefulsoftware","category-useful","tag-useful-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}