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Wednesday, Sep 24, 2008 3:35pm
First Look: Spanning Sync
Nearly everyone has important data stored on their computer, but with cloud computing becoming popular, many people now store data on websites that allow access to their information from multiple devices. The biggest problem occurs when you want to store and edit your data on both your computer and a website like Google. Since keeping multiple copies of data organized can be nearly impossible, you’ll be better off using a special synchronization program like Spanning Sync.

Unlike most apps that appear in the Applications folder or the Dock, this program buries itself in the System Preferences window and as a menulet on the menu bar. Clicking this menulet gives you one-click access to its settings, allowing you to define your Google account.

Once the program knows which account to synchronize, the second step is to define how to synchronize your data with Google. You can do it manually, which forces you to click on a Sync Now button, or according to an automatic schedule to do so, such as every 10 minutes or every hour.