How do you browse across different devices?

tr3mor · 17 April 2012 at 3:25PM

This might sound like a daft question, but I'm after ideas for optimising my web-browsing across different devices.

I have a home computer, work computer, Android phone, iPad and Kindle. And I use all of these at various times to access the web, read blogs, facebook, etc.

I'm wondering what aggregating or other services that I can use across all these devices to give me a similar experience on all of the devices. This will mostly be used to access technology, politics, sports blogs/news.

So, what software do you use and how do you rate it?

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Notmyrealname · 17 April 2012 at 3:28PM

Quite simply you can't because the mobile devices use different browsers and have limitations such as with flash.

With the computers its quite easy. Install Google Chrome, create an account and sync all your bookmarks and extensions and it'll replicate that on every computer you have Chrome on if you sign into the same account.

Use IMAP for accessing email and folders and messages are synced on all devices using that.

tr3mor · 17 April 2012 at 4:57PM

I'm not bothered about browser bookmarks or email - I use gmail, which pretty much covers every device.

I'm more after something like iGoogle or Google reader that is a bit shinier and better supported across platforms.

peteb23 · 18 April 2012 at 9:56AM

How about Pulse? - http://www.pulse.me/

It syncs with Google reader as well if you already use that.

viv0147 · 18 April 2012 at 10:07AM

Take a look at (air playit) it works over WiFi or 3g with any smartphone Windows or Mac you can watch whatever movies you have on your computer or listen the music on your computer from anywhere and at the moment it's free there is a good tutorial on YouTube

almillar · 18 April 2012 at 12:13PM

Google Chrome (which you can now get on Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich) can be set up to keep your tabs in sync across your devices ie having 5 tabs open on your desktop, reading the same 5 tabs on the train on your phone or tablet, then read the same 5 tabs on your laptop in work. I've had good experience with this between an Android phone and tablet, but I've got a lot of tabs open on my computers (and use Firefox on them) and wouldn't want to clog my mobile devices up with them, and suck far too much data.