Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps. A guide to iLife '05, .Mac, and more.

For most of us, browsing the Internet is more than entertainment. It's a news, research, teaching, training, communication, and shopping tool that we can't get along without. One of the most useful techniques of our online activities is the ability to bookmark web sites, allowing us at any time to instantly jump back to a page of information that we needas long as we're sitting at our own computer at home or at the office. Or if we happen to have our laptop with us.

If you have a .Mac membership, you can use iSync to sync your Safari bookmarks to the .Mac synchronization server and have total access to all of your valuable links no matter where in the world you are, and no matter what computer you're using.

Knowing this is possible, you may want to start bookmarking web pages now in anticipation of future trips. You can bookmark restaurants, activities, or maps well in advance of your trip. Later, from an Internet cafe or from a laptop in your hotel room, pull up your .Mac bookmarks and finalize your plans. If you're on business, you can access your business-related bookmarks from an office down the hall, from a client's computer, or from another country.

The following pages explain how to sync your Safari bookmarks and access them with your .Mac account.