Sync addressbook & iCal between 2 macs without .mac?

Greetings,
Probably a question that has been asked several times but I couldn't find a real good answer to my problem. Myself along with many others have now decided to use macs instead of windows machines. I just ordered my second mac (iMac) and I would like to be able to have them "sort of" similar by using the same addressbook and iCal if I use one or the other.
I have lloked through all help files and it seems I can do this with .mac but I have my own domain so why would I want to spend the extra money for another account?
This is probably the wrong forum here but wouldn't iCal be a no brainer being able to be synced between all your home computers? I have read a little bit but I guess I can subscribe or hos my iCal on my domain and then hav it automatically sync?
Ideas?

You can accomplish this a number of different ways.
1. Network the two computers and use backup/sync software to synchronize the desired data folders for Address Book and iCal. Both are located in your /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder.
2. If you cannot network the computers then get an external Firewire drive and periodically copy the data folders to the drive from the computer most recently changed and transfer them to the other computer.
3. Subscribe to one of the many free or lower cost online data storage services and upload your changed data folders so they may be downloaded to the other computer. Such services that are Mac oriented may even provide software to help in the process.
4. Write an Applescript that periodically checks to see if one of the data folders has changed and then copies the changed folder to the other computer across a network (requires the computers be networked.)
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