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Fast File Transfer, Sync between: Android, iOS, Windows, OSX

June 23, 2013June 23, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

Sharing and syncing files between android and PC is easy with millions of apps out in Play Store. But most of these Syncing and File transfer utilities have too many clicks involved. From the developer of AIDE, comes a new app called Scatter: P2p file sharing and syncing between Android devices and Windows PC. Scatter is an all-in-one solution for sharing clipboard content and files between a PC and an Android device. Its not jsut about file transfers, you can sync files between two or more Android, windows devices. Scatter…

Sync Data, Music, Contacts between iPhone iOS, Android, Desktop PC

March 25, 2011March 25, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

Individually, Android and iPhone iOS 5 can be synced with Cloud over wifi easily and you would seldom need to backup data to DEsktop PC. But if you want to keep data synced over all your devices: Android, Android Tablet, iOS iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and pre-iOS5 devices, SimpleDrop is for you. This app allows you to send and receive data (music, videos, photos, files and contacts) to/from desktop. It lets you sync data between your desktop system and Android devices, stream media from one device to another and even sync data,…

Sync, Integrate Google Docs with PC, MS Office

March 12, 2011March 12, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Do you use Google Docs and Microsoft Office on different computers all the time? Do you wish to sync all your Online/Offline docs? You can often get caught up with offline-online documents, ending up wasting time trying to get them right. You wish there was a GDrive like solution that syncs all your Windows, Mac computers. Here are some quick solutions for you to keep all your docs in sync. 1. Google Cloud Connect This is Google’s Official Microsoft Office plugin that lets you save your Office documents to your…

Get Google Cloud Music Sync on Android Gingerbread

March 7, 2011April 6, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Remember the Cloud music sync for Android demoed at Google I/O 2010 by Vic Gundotra? The same music sync capabilities have now been hacked into Gingerbread phones. Using the Honeycomb music player alongside the newer Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread (you can use CyanogenMod 7 Nightlies or ANY other ROM, including official). How to Enable Cloud Music Sync on Android Phone Remove the stock Music app from your android phone/device. (Use adb command: “adb remove com.google.android.music”) Replace the app with one from Honeycomb: Honeycomb music app apk. Update: Download New Android Music…

Sync Chrome, Firefox Tabs / Sessions across Computers, Android

January 25, 2011January 25, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Synchronize Chrome Tabs, Session across Multiple Computers, an end to all problems. We all happen to use multiple computers and hop all the time. Even if you don’t, its not hard to lose track of last session when there are 30+ tabs, and you are about to open more. Google Chrome provides ability to sync bookmarks, form autofills, extensions, themes, preferences, out of the box but there’s no support for saving Tabs from current session. Its time for your to save your Chrome Tabs, Session and sync to the cloud…

Backup Android Phone Apps, Settings

June 6, 2010June 6, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

One of the good things of the iPhone was its complete data backup. But coz the sync is limited to USB, its clunky and not very dynamic in nature. Android 2.2 (froyo) seems to have a solution OTA to backup and sync most of the stuff, if not all. Android Froyo backups and restores complete list of apps plus their respective data, but, with a twist. This data backup to the cloud is left on to the mercy of app developer. App developer has to write the app in such…

Sync iPhone Wirelessly with iTunes

May 15, 2010May 15, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Just as with under-clocking, Apple had crippled Wireless iPhone, iPod Touch Sync to save on battery life. No wonder, it was part of the plan, but, speed restrictions plus battery concerns were enough for them to step backwards. Don’t worry, the 3rd part app called WiFi Sync will give you Wireless Sync for iPhone with iTunes on Mac, Windows (soon), just by jailbreaking your iPhone. The app is available in Cydia store at $9.99 and does everything without a glitch. Of course the sync is way slower than the USB connection,…

Sync iPhone Bookmarks with Firefox, Chrome

May 1, 2010May 1, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Firefox 3.5 is now World’s most popular browser, but Apple forgot to integrate Bookmark sync with Firefox, Chrome. All you get is the Sync option for Safari/Internet Explorer. Behold, there’s a solution that will make it possible to automatically sync iPhone Bookmarks with Firefox and Chrome [and vice-versa] i.e. Sync Firefox, Chrome Bookmarks with iPhone, in a blink of the eye. Step 1. For Firefox, Download and Install Xmarks Addon from here and for Chrome from here. Step 2. Configure the plugin by signing-up for an account (if you are…

Sync iPhone in Linux [Ubuntu]

February 13, 2010February 13, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

iTunes lets you sync everything for iPhone on Windows and Mac. But Apple never talks about Linux/Ubuntu. Here’s a quick tutorial to enable you to sync iPod Touch, iPhone 2g, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS having latest firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3 with your Linux box. Just a brief on how this works: (Optional, you can ignore this if you are no geek) This guide is How to Sync (both jailbroken & non-jailbroken) iPhone, iPod Touch on Ubuntu, and similar packages when installed on other Linux Flavors, works flawlessly. Let’s get started: Step 1.…

Sync Firefox Addons, Settings

January 29, 2010February 1, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

I happen to use four instances of Firefox- One each on my personal laptop, office laptop, remote desktop and solaris desktop and find it very tedious to have all the same stuff synced across the browsers. When Xmarks came, it solved part of the problem by syncing Firefox and Chrome bookmarks. But I was still looking for a solution that could sync my settings, addons. Mozilla Weave partly solved bunch of it by providing settings sync. But wait a minute, addons? Then I came across another addon, which became the solution…

Intel’s UMPC and Networking Concept. Awesome!

May 7, 2009May 7, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Its not far from the day when your Ultra mobile PC (UMPC) would have the processing power to gear up the UI that suits the smoothness of silk. There will be enough of room to sync the mobile devices with your regular home devices with a flick of the hand. And when you are outdoors, sharing multimedia with your friends would be slick. Imagained a DJ party without speakers? and DJs? Play your music and every1 dances to the same tunes, collaborate and make life of outsiders easier. Possibilities are…