SyncMate for Mac – Review November 24, 2009
Posted by Chaim Gartenberg in : Computers, First Look/Reviews , trackback
Sync is a wonderful thing….
Recently, I was given the opportunity to try out a rather nice application called Syncmate for Mac, which, as the name implies – does Sync. From a Mac. But seriously, this program is incredibly useful – at least, to me, and I suspect most of you other teens out there, at least, those of you with Macs.
Syncmate has 2 flavors - the free edition and the expert edition. So, to start off, here’s the free edition: Contact and Calandar, as well as text message viewing. (More on that with Expert later on.) So…. what’s so good about Calendar/Contact syncing? Two words – Google Account. Syncmate allows syncing to your, and more importantly FROM to/from Google Calendar, from/to iCal or Entourage. This, for me at least, is a huge feature – anything I do on my Mac calendar in iCal is uploaded to Google, and vice versa. And since Google Calendar can go to my iTouch, I can keep that in the loop too. My Windows netbook – same deal. Everything on all my various calendars goes everywhere. Likewise for contacts – keeps everything in perfect sync. And that’s all free.
Moving on to expert mode, you have a boatload more stuff – mainly centered around Windows Mobile phones: Syncmate is basically the iTunes sync for WinMo phones on Mac – can sync iTunes, iPhoto, Bookmarks, Mail Accounts, etc. Also included for text messages is backing up, syncing, and even composing texts on your computer.
Also in Expert is folder syncing to Windows PCs, and flash drives – so whenever you connect both your PC and Mac to the internet, you automatically can sync your notes, making sure you have the latest copies everywhere. Or, when you plug in a flash drive, it’ll update it automatically with your new pictures. Also included is the useful ability for backing up your data to their web-based storage, of which they give you 50 MB (free) or 200 MB (expert)
So, that’s features. In terms of usability, Syncmate also was excellent – I was able to get it up and running about a minute after installing. You just launch it, and it’ll just ask what devices you’d like to set up. You enter in the info, it does the rest, syncing from both Address Book, iCal, and even Microsoft Office’s Entourage.
Overall, SyncMate is a nice useful product, that does what it claims simply and easily. And since the Free version, is well, free, I’d highly recommend you give it a whirl. If you need the extra functionality, or use WinMo frequently, you might want to take a look at a copy of Expert as well.
Syncmate received an excellent 4/5.
Comments»
Hello,
I have my google calendar sync with my iCal using calDav protocol. When I try to sync my iCal with my PDA using SyncMate I am not able to sync changes in the PDA back to the iCal (nor Google Calendar).
I think that the problem here is CalDav. What configuration are using you?
Thanks,
Juan