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Nokia and Microsoft become friends and share office!


14 Aug

A couple of days ago the Microsoft Press department announced the following:

Today, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop and Nokia’s Executive Vice President for Devices Kai Öistämö announced the agreement, outlining a shared vision for the future of mobile productivity. This is the first time that either company has embarked on an alliance of this scope and nature.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices.

This is definately a good thing for Nokia symbian devices, as an E71 user I have noticed that Documents to Go doesn’t quite cut the mustard for me, not as much as Office on my former Win Mo device did. Also this agreement presents the opportunity for futher collaboration and development of Nokia smartphones into the world of Microsoft, something that will give them a real shot at snatching business customers away from Blackberry.

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Allway Sync… A perfect sync??


11 Apr

No, I am not going to apologise again, I had a few computer issues over the past few days (namely a virus my AV and firewall failed to stop)

Allway Sync is an item of software I have used for a number of years now and I thought it was about time I did a review. The program is totally free to personal users, however corporate or very heavy users need to buy a pro license from the website for a mere $19.95.

Allway Sync is free file and folder synchronization software for Windows.

Allway Sync uses innovative synchronization algorithms to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Allway Sync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy-to-use interface.

One synchronization software provides all these solutions

  • Sync data between your desktop PC and laptop (notebook).
  • Replicate and back-up data between your home and office computers.
  • Synchronize more than two directories.
  • Update and back-up files over a local network or the Internet.
  • Synchronize removable devices (USB key, flash drive, CDRW) with a local drive. Get both the performance of local drives and the mobility of removable drives. USB key lost or damaged? Your local drive always has an up-to-date copy. Hard drive crash? Your removable drive has the most current version of all your critical data.

www.allwaysync.com

I have used it in many of the situations above, my primary use however, is for both for pen drives, and hard drives, in fact it currently operates as a faux mirrored raid array between two disks to replicate data changes on one HD to another thus making sure that I am always protected. It had no problem at all doing the initial copy of 265GB between disks and now if anything changes on the primary disk then it is replicated to the secondary one. The setup for that took less than 5 mins and to be honest can be done in under 10 mouse clicks!

One element about it that I love is that you can set a job to sync upon detection of a USB drive being attached. So if you want to keep a directory synced with a pen drive all you have to do is plug it in and changed in both directions will be made since the last sync, easy!!

It’s never crashed, gone wrong or failed to do it’s job, as a result I would recommend it to ANYONE in both corporate or personal environments. It’s a fantastic bit of software.

 

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Disclaimer: I am neither employed by or sponsored by Usov Lab who make Allway Sync and no payment was received for doing this review.

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