Windows only (for now): Freeware application Syncplicity instantaneously syncs and backs up files in monitored folders on your Windows computer. Currently in a free beta period (they aren’t specific about pricing post-beta), Syncplicity offers unlimited storage, web access, and a real-time sync between your computers. Several tools like Syncplicity are on the horizon, like the subscription-based SugarSync and the still closed-beta Dropbox (both of which are Windows and Mac), but if you’re looking for a similar solution that you can use for free right now, this might be a winner. Syncplicity is freeware, Windows only (until Q3 of ’08). Thanks Karl! Syncplicity
Mac OS X only: Shareware application Syncopation keeps your music, podcasts, and video in sync between up to five iTunes libraries. The app finds music that’s in one library but not others, then transfers files between computers until everything matches. Syncopation is smart, too: it automatically replicates changes to a track’s metadata in one library across your others. You can even set up block lists that keep, for example, your thrash metal out of your significant other’s library. Syncopation is $25 for the full version, but you can download a demo version that works with two computers for 30 days—so if you just want to run one quick sync between two libraries, it’s an excellent free solution. Either way, the Mac OS X-only Syncopation is a great tool, though it’d be great to see a completely freeware alternative. Syncopation [via TUAW]
