Most Android devices make it easy to move files between your phone or tablet and a computer. All you have to do is plug in a USB cable, enable the USB storage option, and start copying and pasting. But if you’re looking for something a bit more automatic, there’s Synx.

This open source app for Windows allows you to synchronize all of the photos, videos, and music in a directory with the click of a button. Just tell Synx where your media is stored, plug in your phone, and hit the big button.

Synx supports two-way sync, so if you download a new song or take a new photo with your phone, it will be copied to your PC hard drive. And if you add a new movie to your collection on your PC, it will be copied to your smartphone or tablet.

Unfortunately you still need to manually mount your Android device in order to use Synx. On most Android hardware you can do this by connecting your device to your PC with a USB cable, pulling down the notification bar, and choosing the option to enable USB mass storage.

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HP has launched a public beta of HP Play — a new application designed to let you synchronize your media between a PC or Mac and an HP TouchPad tablet or webOS phone.

The software is based on the open source Songbird media player and right now it only lets you sync your music over a USB cable. But eventually HP plans to add wireless sync capabilities so that you can manage media on your mobile device without physically plugging it into your computer every time you want to make a change.

You can use HP Play to import music from iTunes playlists or from other directories on your computer. You can also create playlists or rip your own CDs.

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SugarSync doesn’t seem to generate the same amount of buzz as DropBox amongst the cool kids, the service offers a very strong (and enterprise-friendly) synchronization and backup platform. The company has just outed a new enhancement which makes SugarSync an even better option for power users who like extra control measures: mobile device management.

In the SugarSync web interface, the devices section now lets you view all the files and folders which are currently synced to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Transferring files has gotten easier as well, as SugarSync’s desktop app now offers direct uploading to iOS devices — and support for Android and BlackBerry will be arriving in the near future.  When new files are uploaded to your cloud storage, SugarSync will send a push notification to your device to let you know that they’re available for syncing. For a look at how the new mobile device management features work, have a look at screencast embedded below.

The company has also updated its BlackBerry app recently to bring it up to date with the SugarSync apps for Android and iOS.

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Apple won’t fully roll out its new iCloud service until this fall, but the company is already allowing users to upload their music collections to iCloud. And this afternoon the company rolled out another piece of the puzzle. If you’re using multiple iOS devices you can now go into the “Store” section in the Settings menu to enable Automatic Downloads.

This allows you to automatically download music, apps, or books purchased from iTunes, the App Store, or iBooks on some or all of your devices. In other words, if you buy a book on your iPhone and enable Automatic Downloads, then the title will be downloaded to your iPad as well with no user intervention required.

A little bit of info about Automatic Downloads leaked this weekend… but at the time all we really had to go on was the name, which implied a feature that would let you download updated versions of apps you’d already purchased with no user intervention. That’s something Google Android users can already enable. But it looks like we’ll have ot keep waiting for that kind of automatic download on iOS, because all we’ve got for now is the ability to sync purchases across devices.

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The flurry of activity at BlackBerry World has been an encouraging sign for new (and potential) PlayBook owners, and we’re finally starting to see some nice tablet apps appearing in the BlackBerry App World. One I’ve recently installed is PlayText, a barebones editor which syncs with your Dropbox account.

Install and launch PlayText and you can enter your existing DropBox credentials or sign up for a new account. PlayText displays your existing notes when it fires up, and you can tap a title to display its contents on the right-hand side of your screen. You can also edit a note by tapping the right arrow icon or delete it via the trash can. To create a new note, simply poke the plus.

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Sure, there’s already a Dropbox app for Android devices, but it only tends to files located in its own local directory. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to upload any file or folder from your phone and have that happen automatically?

Of course it would, and the developer of ScheduledSync agrees — which is why exactly why he’s created the app.

Punch in your Dropbox credentials and choose which files and folders you want to upload, and ScheduledSync takes care of the rest. You can choose a start time and sync interval, and you’re also able to limit its activity to Wi-Fi connections only so you don’t accidentally chew up your mobile data allowance. It’s a great way to silently back up new photos you take or videos you capture on your Android device, especially since they’ll automatically be copied both to the Dropbox cloud and any connected computers which you have tied to the same account.

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Apple has released a minor update for iTunes that should improve synchronization with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. iTunes 10.2.2 fixes a problem that sometimes caused the software to become unresponsive when syncing an iPad. It also addresses an issue which caused photo synchronization to take longer than it should have.

The latest update also fixes a problem with video previews in the iTunes store and improves stability, performance, and security.

You can grab the latest update using Apple Software Update, or on Windows by opening iTunes and choosing “check for updates” in the Help area.

Password synchronization service LastPass offers and Android app which lets you login to web sites quickly on a mobile device as long as your username and password are stored on the LastPass server. In other words, you can create a Twitter account on your PC and the LastPass plugin for Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome will automatically save your login information to the web. Then you can open the LastPass browser on your phone and login to Twitter without entering your password all over again.

Up until recently the LastPass mobile app only worked when you used the built-in browser to open web pages. But the latest build of LastPass for Android has an experimental feature that lets you login to some third party apps.

Basically, LastPass 1.73.1 now includes a keyboard utility. When you open the Twitter app, Facebook app, or other supported app and hit the login button, you can bring up the LsstPass keyboard for Android and tap the LastPass icon to automatically login. If you have multiple Twitter accounts (or accounts with other services), you’ll see a list of accounts to choose from.

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