What the fruux?
We got a couple of mails from people asking us, what exactly fruux is about. I guess our marketing sucks 
What is fruux about?
- syncing data (currently addressbooks) between multiple macs devices
What about the future?
- sync even more data (calendars, bookmarks, preferences)
- iPhone syncing
- adding social-syncing
- more details in our roadmap
Any demo video?
- Thanks to Joshua from MacGasm there is a nice screencast covering fruux. It’s availiable at blip.tv.
(The video shows an older version of fruux. If you watched the video and wonder what went wrong at about 1:20 - Address Book.app and the Apple SyncServices only update a record, if it is not currently opened. Joshua worked around by closing Address Book.app and syncing again. Just clicking on another contact and then back on the “demo contact” would have worked, too. The sync actually went fine, Address Book.app just didn’t update itself with the new data, because the changed contact was currently opened. In “real live” you probably won’t even recognize this behaviour of Address Book.app and Apples SyncServices, because you won’t sit on both machines, have the same contact opened and wait for the change to appear)
FAQ
- Is my data safe?
- fruux uses industry standard SSL encryption (like your bank does for your homebanking) and we will never ever give a third party access to your data!
- Should I backup my addressbook before I start using fruux?
- You should even backup your addressbook when your are not using fruux! fruux is betasoftware. We store a quadrillion (not exactly) contacts and so far nothing went wrong, but there might always be some edge case (for example if you use any other third party sync app) where bad things could happen. So please backup your addressbook (Launch Address Book.app -> File -> Export -> Save Address Book Archive).
- fruux is free, may I support you?
- Why not. You could donate via Paypal, or just shop at Amazon.com or Amazon.de. It’s also possible to list your website/company on our supporters page. We might also blog about your company and how nice your donation was.
- Help spreading the word. Blog about fruux, produce screencasts, upload screenshots (if your article/video/… is nice, we’ll probably link it here), tell your friends, show others that you use fruux at iusethis.com, if you are a Facebook user please “fan” our fruux @ facebook page, follow us on Twitter (it’s low volume, usually we just use it for important stuff) and so on.
More questions?
Try fruux?
- It’s availiable as a free download
Tags: demo, faq, fruux, screencast, video
September 26th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Is there a version that I can use for PowerPC Tiger OSX 10.4.11? I have a few old Mac’s that I want to keep in sync with my new iMac
September 27th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Hi Scott. Currently we unfortunately don’t have the man-power to add a Tiger version, sorry. How old are these -old Macs- ? What about upgrading them to Leopard?
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
This is great that you all are doing this. We really need the bar on syncing raised. MobileMe is such a joke.
To take Social Syncing to the next level. One thing which is really needed is to be able to sync different Address Book Groups (ABG) with different people. For example, share your ’soccer club’ ABG with members of that club only. One may not want to share your entire Address Book with everyone
This would be a killer app!
October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
What’s the idea behind the name? And don’t you think it raises the wrong associations? Maybe it’s only me, but that sounds like some kiddy stuff. Fruity bubblegum or so…
October 11th, 2008 at 8:49 am
The bookmarks syncing does nothing unfortunately. But everything else works great!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hallo!
I just tried out to use Fruux V0.8 on a Ma OSX 10.5.5 (with all updates). The problem I have is that the verification mail don´t arrive. So I cannot use Fruux till now. I also tried it with an second mail account with the same effect. Both email accounts work normal. What should I do? Greetings, Herbert