13 Sep 2006
Humans are creatures of routine. We like to have the same configuration between our home and work computers, including storing the same bookmarks, email, contacts and other information. When we browse the web using Firefox on our work computer, constantly adding new bookmarks, we want to access the same bookmarks when we get home. You could manually email the new bookmarks to your home email address. Alternatively, you could install a tool to automate the process.
Apple's .Mac service enables you to synchronise the same information across your Macs. You can share bookmarks, contacts and more. However, this service only applies to Macs. Google's Browser Sync for Firefox will enable you setup a Google account and use this to automatically synchronise your Firefox bookmarks across different computers, whatever the operating system. Definitely worth downloading.
There are tools to store and make your passwords portable. RoboForm2Go will store all your important data on an external USB drive which you can use between computers. Bookmark Base and SyncBookmarks will synchronise your bookmarks between browsers and computers.
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