[PLUG] Computer/Tablet/Phone Coordination

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Thu Mar 13 08:35:33 UTC 2014


On Mar 12, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Mike Cherba <mcherba at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had mixed Android devices and Xubuntu/Scientific Linux/Fedora
> machines.  For synchronization of certain things I just use the google
> ecosystem as others have suggested.  Contacts, email, etc.  I run chrome on
> both of my android devices and occasionally my desktop to share bookmarks
> and such.  For other files, I actually just use dropbox.

Spideroak is free for a couple of gigs.

>  I've tried
> various other solutions including manually synching up the android devices
> to my desktop via USB, but this seems to be the most flexible.
>                       -Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chaz Sliger <chaz at bctonline.com> wrote:
>>> I have Ubuntu running on a desktop system
>>> I'm thinking about getting a Tablet to use as a mobile computer and also
>>> my old phone in dying so I thought I would upgrade to a smartphone.
>>> The phone I've been thinking about getting is the Samsung Galaxy 4.
>>> Perhaps coordination would be easier if I got a Samsung tablet as well?
>>> Or is synchronizing inherently easy because all the devices are linux
>>> based?
>>> 
>> 
>> As Ronald says, syncing the apps between two Android devices is easy
>> enough if you attach the same Google account to both of them.
>> 
>> As for syncing app data, that depends on each app.
>> 
>> For data in general, like photos, documents, etc I use an app called
>> FolderSync
>> 
>> 
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full
>> 
>> It does a nice job of syncing stuff back to my Debian server for
>> safekeeping or syncing stuff from my Desktop to my phone etc. I use
>> sftp, but it has lots of other transfer modes.
>> 
>> Bill
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