Rats on a synching ship

[pasithea]

I haven't had a computer crash in a while. I'm past due.

Before that happens, I should probably figure out some good way of synching certain directories between my notebook and tower.

Anyone have any good suggestions for the Mac? Here's basically all I want:

Synchronization
An easy way to say 'The directory is the same as this directory on the other machine. Copy newer versions of files from one to the other so that both have a copy'

Backup
And a way to say, 'Take all the new files from this directory on this computer and copy them to a backup directory on the other computer.'

Oh yeah. A way to synch address books between my desktop, notebook, and cell phone might also be nice. :)


In other news, voice-commands are addictive. Frequently when I am reading LJ, someone has linked to something with sound and I have to find iTunes and turn off its volume (since I listen to streams, this is often better than stopping the current stream as they have reconnect messages and a delay)

So now, I just say, 'Switch to iTunes' followed by 'Mute' or 'Unmute'. Turns the volume for the track to 0 and back again. :) Yay technology!

Comments

[3catsjackson.livejournal.com]

rsync is a robust and awesome way to do this anywhere remotely Unixy. There's also a GUI frontend for OSX, RsyncX, with a slightly wonky interface, but still workable, automatable, all that good stuff.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Any quick system-wide control method is addictive!

me, I control iTunes via Quicksilver - set up a couple of key bindings, maybe turn on some module or another first (I forget and QS is horribly documented), and then I have some ctrl-alt-apple shortcuts for pause/play, next/prev tunes, track info, etc. (I should maybe change them to fn+key, for easier onehand invocation when I'm distracted.)