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iPhone synching isn't tied to one computer



Apple's new iPhone is wonderful and all, but what if the information you want to sync with it is caught between worlds? Perhaps your contacts are on your Windows PC at work, your music is at home on a Mac and your photography is stored on a friend's notebook. Fear not, power-synching-user, for Gearlog has discovered that the latest iPhone-friendly version of iTunes has you covered: while music, movies and podcasts need to come from one single library, you can actually set your iPhone to sync with a photo library on a different machine, and contact and calendar info from yet another machine, regardless of Mac and PC boundaries. Simply make sure each machine is running at least iTunes 7.3 and you're ready to start toggling checkboxes to build the perfect synching system between multiple computers.

Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Web services, Social Software, Beta

Plaxo 3.0 opens public beta



Well that didn't take long; apparently Plaxo was planning to launch their public beta a bit sooner than we thought. Whereby 'sooner' we mean 'right now'; the company has just opened the Plaxo 3.0 doors to a public beta for one and all to sign up. Still offering most services as free, Plaxo is inarguably positioning themselves as the incontestable leader of synchronizing not only your own contacts and calendars, but also the information your contacts change in their own address books.

If you aren't up for trying out the 3.0 beta, perhaps a demo video and brief review from the omni-present Robert Scoble will give you enough information to help you lean towards one side of the fence or the other. Scoble has some of the same great things to say about Plaxo as we did, though he's running into some sluggish and flaky synching quirks (hence the all-too-disclaimer-ing beta badge). Nevertheless, it's clear that Plaxo has a great thing going, so stay tuned for a more in-depth look soon.

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