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Laptop Essential Apps?

I just bought me a Refurb iBook G4 from Apple for collegiate stuff. Are there any apps you folks can recommend? Perhaps something to keep my desktop (a mini G4) and lappy in sync, document-wise? I am all ears.

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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If you are willing to go geeky

I have used RsyncX and unison. Note: unison the unix-based command line based application, not the usenet reader of the same name.

unison works excellent and if you know what you are doing, you can automate it really easily. I used to use this back in my system administrator days to sync 3+ machines with my code.

For the slightly less geeky, look at RsyncX. It still has some voodoo to it, but is more mac-like.

I have also heard of people buying OS X Server and syncing home directories that way, but I am unfamiliar with it. (Mostly because it costs money and I am a cheap-ass)

 
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