http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php Weblog for Sync2It.com en 2012-02-17T04:22:04 admin@sync2it.com hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=185&c=1 2010-06-30T11:54:23 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News Finally! I've updated the Windows client software to support Firefox 3.x and Opera 10.x. I'm working on Chrome support now and hopefully will have it available in a couple of weeks. Although this version of the client appears to be very stable and it's the version that ...
Here is a link: http://www.sync2it.com/download/beta.php

Any feedback that you can provide would be appreciated.

Thanks.
- Jack]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=184&c=1 2010-06-16T12:14:32 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) Bug Reports Problem: Yellow or Grey arrows on the system tray icon with the status of "Server unavailable". No synchronization occurring. History: This problem apparently was caused by changing the DNS entries for Sync2It.com while performing routine network maintenance. The exact mechanism that introduced the bug is ...
History: This problem apparently was caused by changing the DNS entries for Sync2It.com while performing routine network maintenance. The exact mechanism that introduced the bug is unknown at this time but an extra "w" was stored in the URL of the registry entry that Sync2It uses to communicate with the server. You can verify this bug by right-clicking on the Sync2It icon in your system tray and selecting "Tools->Find Duplicate Links". A browser window will contain the incorrect URL in the address bar and no web page will be loaded. (Note the 4 w's in the address)

How to fix the problem:

Step 1: From the 'Start' button, select 'Run' and type regedit.
Step 2: Navigate to this registry folder: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sync2It\BookmarkSync
Step 3: Verify that the settings for 'Root' and 'Server' are correctly set to http://www.sync2it.com and not http://wwww.sync2it.com (Note that there are 4 w’s).

You can now right-click on the client icon in your system tray and select 'Synchronize Now' and you should be back in sync.

]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=182&c=1 2010-06-14T13:51:33 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News I changed the IP address block that the Sync2it.com and BookmarkSync.com servers use. If you are having trouble connecting to the server, please verify that when you ping sync2it.com it resolves to 72.19.185.47 and bookmarksync.com resolves to 72.19.185.44, if this is not the case, your DNS host may not ...
If you are still having trouble connecting, please let me know at 'admin at sync2it.com' and I'll continue working on the issue for you.]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=181&c=1 2010-01-13T09:26:53 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) General I found that a primary index file was degrading over the past three days. I noticed it yesterday morning and started rebuilding the database, a process that takes about 20 hours now as we have about 20 million user bookmarks stored and the database is about 15 gigabytes in ...
I've you've had any lost bookmarks, please visit http://www.sync2it.com/bms/undelete.php to restore any deleted bookmarks.

The current client also tries to keep a running copy of your bookmark backups in this folder. C:\Program Files\BookmarkSync\Backups.

Lastly, you can right-click on the SyncIT icon in your system tray and select "Tools->Backup Bookmarks" to store a copy of your bookmarks offline. If you don't have a current copy of your bookmarks in a safe location, you may wish to do that now.

Thanks for using Sync2It!

- Jack



]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=180&c=1 2009-12-01T06:52:18 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News I'm beginning development of the 3.0 client today with expectations of supporting Firefox 3.x and Google Chrome. Updates will be posted here regularly as well as to Twitter and Facebook. 6/24/2010 - Update - I've got Firefox version 3.6.4 sucessfully synchronizing with the new client! I've got a few things ...
6/24/2010 - Update - I've got Firefox version 3.6.4 sucessfully synchronizing with the new client! I've got a few things to tidy up but hopefully next week I can release a beta version.]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=179&c=1 2009-07-10T06:37:58 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News 7/13/09 - Maintenance Complete. BookmarkSync.com is running on it's own dedicated server. Sync2It.com to follow next week. I've got a few issues to tend to with BookmarkSync over the next week. Update: 1:56 PM MDT - I'm posting more frequent updates on twitter. Please visit those pages ...
Update: 1:56 PM MDT - I'm posting more frequent updates on twitter. Please visit those pages for up to date progress information.

http://twitter.com/bookmarksync
&
http://twitter.com/syncit

I will be moving both the Sync2It.com and BookmarkSync.com primary databases to a new server today and tomorrow. This will require the disabling of any new accounts and cessation of bookmark synchronization while the databases are moved and their integrity checked.

Beginning at 9:00 AM this morning, I will be putting both sites in maintenance mode. Then I will be running integrity checks on the databases. I expect this process to last through the evening Friday and be completed tomorrow. Barring any difficulties, you should again be able to synchronize on the newer and faster server by tomorrow afternoon.]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=178&c=1 2009-06-06T09:46:25 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) General The server rack has been moved to its new location and the servers are up and running! It'll take about 30 minutes to get everyone sync'd again and until then, server loads will be a bit high. Thanks for your patience. - Jack
- Jack]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=177&c=1 2009-06-05T13:48:58 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News On Saturday, June 6th, 2009 Sync2It and BookmarkSync will be offline for a hardware transfer to new facilities. I am physically moving the servers to new facilities which will enable me to take care of some sorely needed upgrades to the current client software. I anticipate that the sites will ...
I anticipate that the sites will be down from 8:00AM until 12:00PM but depending on the ease the move, we may be back up sooner than that.

Thank you for your patience. Regular updates will be posted on the Twitter accounts.

http://twitter.com/bookmarksync
http://twitter.com/syncit]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=176&c=1 2009-04-06T06:52:20 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) News The Sync2It server apache service stopped about 4:30am yesterday and failed to restart automatically. Thinking my cell phone's battery was low, my wife turned it off so our sleep wouldn't be bothered. However, the beeps she was hearing was our off-site monitoring service sending alerts to my cell ...
I apologize for the downtime and have trained my staff (wife) thoroughly.

BookmarkSync failed over to the backup server correctly so this website would have been available during the outage.]]> http://www.sync2it.com/b2/index.php?p=175&c=1 2009-02-02T16:05:42 Jack (mailto:admin@sync2It.com) General I am moving both BookmarkSync.com and Sync2It.com to their own dedicated servers. This will bring my server count to 5 required to operate the BookmarkSync network. BookmarkSync.com will be first to be transferred and it should be transparent to most users. I am intending on doing the transfer ...
I am intending on doing the transfer next Saturday (February 7th), at about 10am. While the transfer itself should be transparent, there will be a few hours where your client will not transfer links to the server though it will continue to operate normally. After I move the current database tables to the new server, there will be about 3 hours required to re-index the tables after which all should return to normal.

This new server will be the primary server for BookmarkSync.com and I will operate the current server as a backup server through an automatic DNS failover mechanism to minimize future downtime.

I will be moving Sync2It.com to a new server later this month.

You can get real-time updates via twitter for either SyncIT or BookmarkSync by following either of these users:

http://twitter.com/bookmarksync
http://twitter.com/syncit]]>