I've been traveling more lately, and that means alternately using my desktop computer when I'm home, and my laptop when I'm not. For years, I simply copied my main work files from one computer to another, going back and forth as necessary... sometimes loosing data, usually not.
A couple months ago I started to get tired of the dance, but more imporantly, I got tired of the limitations having to plan and execute the updates put on me. For one example, I'm sitting in my living room while I'm writing this. Not such a big deal on the face of it, but normally I would have had to stay at my office to do this because that's where my files were... unless I had taken the time to synch up my laptop before taking it from the office.
I had (and still have, to some extent) several major applications and data structures that needed to be synchronized, and those are the ones I decided to address. Here's the list of applications I need to connect:
