July 17, 2008

Mesh the cloud and your desk

I don’t suspect that I’m a “typical” computer user with my daily working with four different computers and constant travel but most of my readers I’m sure have at least a home and office computer. I’m also pretty sure that at some point you’ve “left that important file on the other computer” and have no easy way of getting it short of calling someone to get them to e-mail it to you. Great if your office is open and the file is small, but getting a file at 7am when you’re presenting at 8, and it’s a 10MB PPT file and you’re basically screwed.

I’ve played with many different services to synchronize devices in the past my most of them are cumbersome at best, hardly functional at worst. However, yesterday I was given access to the “tech preview” of Windows Live Mesh and all I can saw is “where have you been all my life.” (Supposedly this is open to everyone in the US but I’ve heard reports that so many people tried to access it yesterday that they’ve since closed it to new users again. So, your ability to register may vary.)

So, let me take you on a tour of Live Mesh and explain to you what it does and (basically) how it works.

First you head over to http://www.mesh.com/ and select the Sign in button. (I recommend you do this in IE as opposed to Firefox. I’ll explain why later.)

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