Tuesday, June 3, 2003 |
15:39 - That Syncing Feeling
http://www.apple.com/isync/
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iSync 1.1 is out. As early reports and rumors had indicated, among other improvements (including support for lots more phones, with neato model-specific icons and everything), it now synchronizes Safari bookmarks between Macs.
It works really well, too. They did a very good job with it. Namely, for example, you don't have to restart Safari for it to refresh its bookmarks after a sync, as one might expect from how applications of this type usually behave. Just select "Sync Now" from the menu bar icon, and watch your browser's bookmarks automatically update even as you use them.
I'm inclined to think that Safari bookmark syncing is a) a killer feature for Safari, and b) a killer feature for iSync. Has this kind of thing ever really existed before? The ability to keep the same set of bookmarks on all your computers, from your home desktop to your laptop to your machine at work? It has that feel of something whose time was desperate to arrive-- I have enough blog-related bookmarks that it's a serious pain trying to keep a usable common set of them on all my machines. Now I don't have to worry about it-- they're all there, no matter which machine I'm using. With iSync set to auto-sync every hour, the whole thing is a no-brainer; it's out of sight, out of mind, and-- how's that go again?-- it just works.
It doesn't sync your browsing history, though, which is probably a good thing. No need to worry about the trail of places you surf to at home being published to Apple or, worse, to your machine at work.
Nice job, Apple. Thank you.
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