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Software
review
Created: March, 2000
Have you ever been in the middle of
explaining a concept to a prospective client and remembered
an example on a Web site that could help you win the account?
The address for the Web site, alas, was on your home computer
and not at hand. Carrying your bookmarks around on a floppy
disk is an option, but a better solution might be BookmarkSync.
Like other bookmark organizing utilities, BookmarkSync can make
such information available remotely. This means you can access
all your bookmarked Web addresses while away from your own computer.
BookmarkSync is the most popular program of its kind because
it is comprehensive.
Other such utilities offer an add-on or two, such as auto-update,
remote updating or the ability to merge bookmark collections
from different sources. BookmarkSync sports all these features
-- plus it's much smaller than many less functional utilities.
It’s also free. SyncIT.com's business strategy, aside from
selling its technology to other Web developers, is to use tools
such as BookmarkSync to develop online communities, where it
hopes to generate revenue with advertising and e-commerce.
You can opt to receive -- or not receive -- e-mail marketing
communications from SyncIT.com when you sign up. Its privacy
statement says your e-mail address will not be given to other
parties. BookmarkSync is divided into two segments: the downloadable
software which runs out of your Windows system tray and the
Web site that allows you to use your bookmarks from different
browsers and computers anywhere in the world.
The software ensures that all bookmarks are updated and synchronized
every time you add a bookmark in one directory. The site itself
behaves like a program operating within your browser, always
opening new links in a separate window. You can click back to
the BookmarkSync site to select further links. Links are sorted
and displayed in simple directory form as well as in Java tree
style.
The program can display dead links (ones not accessible by its
server) and gives you the option to delete them -- individually
or en-masse. It can do the same for duplicates. A useful new
feature allows you to add bookmarks to your home computer from
a foreign one that doesn’t have the BookmarkSync client.
Just go to the SyncIT.com’s Web site and drag the "Add
to SyncIT" link into the browser on the foreign computer.
It becomes an option on that computer’s bookmark menu and
will auto-add the new bookmark to your profile online. Next
time you fire up your home computer and go online, the changes
will be updated on it through the BookmarkSync server.
Need to swap Web information with colleagues? BookmarkSync allows
you specify whether you want to share your bookmarks with others
on the Web. Your bookmarks are private unless you choose to
publish them, however.
Although your bookmarks may be scrolled (not attributed to you
in any way) through the BookmarkSync ticker, any bookmarks you
never want to be seen by anyone else can be guarded. Just create
a separate folder for them and put a period in front of the
folder name. You could name it .privatebookmarks, for example.
BookmarkSync's main failing is there is no way to disable the
auto-save function. This would prevent files from being overwritten
or deleted inadvertently. The advertising model might also be
considered a drawback.
Some people might be willing to pay a reasonable fee for a version
free of advertising, but such a version is not offered. Merging
bookmark directories from different sources can also be problematic.
BookmarkSync doesn't know where you want your financial links
in relation to your movie listings, but this problem is common
to all such software.
There are other ways to make your bookmarks available remotely,
but BookmarkSync requires no maintenance once installed. It
goes above and beyond what similar products provide and is a
worthwhile and cost-effective small business tool that can increase
your productivity.
Reviewer's rating: 4.25 / 5
Comments: BookmarkSync has become the most popular program
of its kind and it's easy to see why. It contains features that
were previously available only by combining several other bookmark
utilities.
More info: http://syncit.com
Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95/98/2000/NT,
32MB RAM, 10MB free disk space, Internet access, Internet Explorer
3.0 or higher or Netscape 3.0 or higher
Price: Free
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