(Or, How to sync an iPhone with one computer and manually manage music and videos on another).

Sync In A Blink is a simple and easy to use application designed to synchronize your Google™ Gmail™ Contacts with the contacts on your Apple® iPhone™. All you need to get started is your Gmail account. No additional online services are required and none of your data is stored outside of your iPhone and Gmail account.

PodWorks is a Mac OS X application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your music and videos on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck! This is where PodWorks comes in: it allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher.

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer. CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive.

FlickrMetadataSynchr is a tool that allows you to synchronize metadata added to images stored on Flickr with the original versions of those images stored locally on your hard drive. If you don't have the original version on your hard drive, the application can download the missing pictures for you. The app can sync the metadata two-way on a picture-by-picture and metadata field-by-field basis.

Max OS X application to allow for easy and quick uploading of documents into Google Docs, or uploading of jpeg photos into Picasa Web Albums.

JetS3t is a free, open-source Java toolkit and application suite for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

"The OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension imports documents from Google Docs and Spreadsheets to OpenOffice.org and exports from OO.org to GDocs so you can work with your docs both online and off as you see fit."

These instructions show only how to sync the GPE software installable on the N800 with Evolution, a standard GNOME desktop PIM suite for Linux. The software used for sync, OpenSync, also supports other programs/protocols (such as Google Calendar and SyncM

Conduit is a synchronization solution for GNOME which allows the user to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, saved passwords. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines/sessions.