Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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For the longest time I wanted a program that would easily and seamlessly synchronize favorites across multiple machines. The fact that each machine has its own favorites store has made the feature rather useless to me, and I've started resorting to less then ideal means (like Outlook Notes) for storing important bookmarks.
I considered writing such a program myself (I also want one that synchronizes my Office User Dictionary across multiple machines) but just never got around to it. Well the other day I discovered FavoriteSync. This is simply a fantastic piece of free software. All you need is your email address and a password and it will replicate your favorites across any number of machines. You also have the option of storing your favorites on your own FTP rather than the Favorite Sync server.
This product really meets my expectations. It's completely transparent to me, and it works like magic. Like all good software.