RSS 
So with a laptop again I'm really keen to find ways of not duplicating data entry and getting weirdness between my computers, so all kinds of synchronization catch my attention. Here's two I've jsut gotten working and love and make my life better:
Google Browser Sync: It lets you sync data from your browser (Firefox) to Google's server and the to other copies of Firefox you're using. I'm only using it to manage my bookmarks but it's wonderful to now have one set of bookmarks across my desktop and laptop.
Tomboy note syncing: Tomboy is awesome. It is my brain dump. I store tons of stuff in there but till now it has been a bit limited because the information in it doesn't follow me around so I can't count on it to be with me when I'm out or at home. Now I can. Since I have a nice reliable server, I just set it up to use sshfs (thanks to fuse) and both my copies of Tomboy (laptop and desktop) sync to a shared dump on my server. On Ubuntu it was super easy and everything was configured to work already, I just had to enable the sshfs sync plugin. On Gentoo, I had to add FUSE support to my kernel, install sshfs-fuse, and then add a fuse group and modify /etc/udev/rules.d/99-fuse.rules to look like
KERNEL=="fuse", NAME="%k", MODE="0666", OWNER="root", GROUP="fuse"
and then add myself to the fuse group. Once that was all done, Tomboy on Gentoo was syncing too and now my notes will follow me around where ever I am. This is truly amazing and takes Tomboy from a neat app, to an incredibly useful app.
I'm feeling the synchronizational love tonight!
