Learn the best practices for using synchronization primitives in OS, such as mutexes, semaphores, condition variables, and monitors. Avoid deadlock, race conditions, and contention.

Several users continue to report issues with synchronizing devices and Macs through iSync and other synchronization applications after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.9.

"I had no problems using iSync beta to HotSync a Palm m505 (iCal and address book) until software update added OS 10.2.4 and iSync 1.0. Now the USB cradle is not recognized by system profiler and ...

MacUser iHub brings cloud-free synchronization to OS X and iOS MacUser By Marco Tabini, JUN 15, 2010 6:13 am PDT ...