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Greetings from BestFlashDrives.com.  This post if for anyone who has ever struggled with keeping organized between their work computer and their home computer, or their desktop pc and laptop pc, or between any 2 or more computers! If you're like me, you know how aggrevating this can be.

 Well thanks to a great little program called Carry It Easy Plus, I have almost, almost, got this problem solved. 

This program belongs to a category of software called synchronization software.  It runs on a USB flash drive, copying and compressing whatever files on your computer that you select.  Then when you unplug the USB drive from one computer and plug it into another, it will copy down all of the files from your other computer.  And the beauty of it is, every time you make a change in a file on one computer, after you run the sync program with the other computer via the USB drive, presto, you're up-to-date!   You can keep all of your office files synced on both machines (or multiple machines for that matter), your bookmarks in your browser, and even your email (if you're lucky..I'll get to that in a minute).

I tried and tested many different sync programs, some free and some for sale, and Carry It Easy Plus,  from a little company in Romania (yup, no kidding) called Cososys was by far the best. (And no, I'm not receiving any kick-backs or other compensation from them, I swear.)   You can download the software right off their website, and simply install it on a USB drive.  I recommend using at least an 8GB drive, and preferably 16GB if you have one - just to make sure you have enough room for all of your data, as the first sync you run does take awhile, and it would be a major bummer if after you waited all that time for it to finish, you get an error at the very end saying "disk full".  Yup, that happened to me..

Anyway, their sync software makes it very very easy, and it can even sync email in Outlook, which if you're like me, is the most important thing.  However, one big caveat here - if you have one machine running Windows Vista and one running XP, and thus are running different versions of Outlook, forget it, you will not be able to sync your Outlook. 

Thanks to Microsoft's evil ways, the Outlook that runs on Vista is not backwards-compatible with any previous version of Outlook - great job Microsoft!  So just keep that in mind when trying to sync email, I learned this the hard way.  I will devote another blog post to how much I hate Microsoft and am switching to Linux or Apple, but as I said, that's a whole other blog post.  

To end on a positive note though, and wrap up this rather long post, give this sync software a try, support the economy of Romania, and you'll be happier for it!   (Or if you find something better please let us know!)