Microsoft Live Mesh

You’d think MS wouldn’t have a place in a blog about useful freebies. They actually do put out a number of handy little things, Live Mesh is one of them. http://www.mesh.com

Live Mesh is part of Microsoft’s cloud initiative on the consumer side under the umbrella of the Live brand (cloudy stuff like office applications, e-mail, chat, web sites and so forth.) Mesh gives you a modest amount of cloud storage (5gb) and lets you setup folders to automatically sync to the online “desktop” Not exactly revolutionary.

The cool part (which also isn’t terribly revolutionary) is that you can have multiple machines synchronize not only to the cloud storage, but to each other (See screenie below).  Additionally, they’ve added support for the Mac OS.  So now I can pretty much have the same stuff on each of my computers with minimal effort (you do have to make sure you set the Mac version as a startup item, it’s not automatic like the Windows version.)

There are other services that offer this kind of thing, but this is free and works with all of my stuff.  They keep promising a mobile version as well.  I’ll be interested to see if it’s exlusively Windows Mobile, or if they relase an iPhone app.

Screenshot of the Live Mesh Desktop and my computers

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