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Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

22 Sep

google sync comic

And now, mobile integration with your google apps is complete.  Google announced today that their ActivSync Exchange setup for the iphone, ipod touch and Windows Mobile devices will now handle gmail synchronization.

Blackberry users still have great BES integration if your domain uses Google Apps, if not you are stuck with the BIS integration with gmail which has problems off and on.

Lastly, Android users have always had good gmail integration.

Really, if you are a heavy google apps user (read Gcalendar and Gmail) your choices as to which mobile platform to use has just expanded dramatically if you need push email.

Via: Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support.

 
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Dropbox review

10 Sep

Dropbox - file sync, sharing and backup

Dropbox is a file sync and sharing tool.  I’ve been using it for the last 7 months and it’s saved my rear end a few times already.

How it works is you install the client and it creates a directory in your Documents folder (for Windows, the location is different for OSX and Linux) which is synchronized to the dropbox servers.  You can then install the client on another computer and anything in your “dropbox” that has been synchronized will be downloaded.  Any changes you make on either machine will be synchronized with each other as well as the dropbox server.  You can access your files by installing the client or logging into the dropbox server via browser and downloading files from the website.

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