Dropbox (and similar cloud services) are awesome, but they don't give you that much control, security, or privacy over your files. If you want to take control into your own hands without losing the ...

If you do not trust online storage drives for file syncing across your devices or are frustrated with storage limits, there is another player in town. BitTorrent has released a new alpha version of ...

Open SyncThing on both of your devices, then click Add Remote Device. Click the Device IDdrop-down and choose another device ...

There are numerous ways to automatically back up files from your Android device, but they usually rely on the cloud. If you want to handle everything in-house, DAEMON Sync might be exactly what you ...

I now treat my different computers as a single unit. By syncing key folders across my workstation and laptop, I can stop ...

Mobile hotspot features allow you to share your smartphone's internet connection with other devices, such as tablets or ...

Dropbox may make it easy to sync files between devices, but if you’d like to skip the middle man, DAEMON Sync lets you do the same thing solely over local Wi-Fi. The DAEMON server runs on each ...

Some of you may have heard about the built-in backup application in Mac OS, called the Time Machine. Mac users like to believe it’s the perfect backup solution. This opinion might be too optimistic, ...

There are endless ways to share files between devices. Some of them are complex, ftp and Network File System (NFS). Some, such as Apple Bonjour and Windows Homegroup, work with only a few operating ...

Keeping the files on multiple machines synchronized seems to be a recurring problem for many computer users. Until I discovered Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu ...

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