Live Mesh

I just been checking out the new MS Live Mesh at www.mesh.com and this looks like a winner. It is capable of syncing PC to PC, Mac to Mac, Mac to PC, PC to Mobile device, Mac to Mobile device and so on. It also has some stuff for checking you desktop quickly through remote desktop which is cool. They giving everyone 5 gigs of storage but I am sure that will increase. It is good to see that MS is playing friendly with Mac on this and could be a big blow to Mobile Me since it is free. Anyhow it has been fun seeing all the cool stuff that MS has been releasing.

 

I believe this type of product is the next generation of online applications, as an all-in-one solution for this universal access At this point, the syncing and related features are still fairly limited across the board but this has great potential. I hope it does not switch over to severe monthly payments :/. Dropbox is a good alternative, but not as feature packed. Mozy is a good backup only, just an FYI. Good find killer!

 

Nice find, @Killer! Good information...

Say no to *monthly payments*

Cin

 

Only problem with mesh is that the remote desktop feature is slooooooooooooooow. I mean really slow, almost to the point of uselessness.

 

I've been using Mesh and Syncplicity together on several machines...I like both, however Mesh isn't as stable as Syncplicity for so far. Mesh has an issue on XP as well, where it'll cause a folder being synced to constantly start to shrink without warning. Then, you still can't pick out individual folders to sync within a folder unlike Syncplicity... Finally, in Windows 7 Mesh has a bug where its "drop down menu thingy" from the taskbar will cause a graphical error where it doesn't go away like its supposed to when its not active... I've also haven't been able to the Mesh Remote Desktop feature to work on any computer either...

 

I am sure a lot of this will get ironed out in the future. It is still beta so you cant expect perfection yet but it is another great online service that will make thing nice in the future.

 

Live Mesh FTW! I've been using it for a while, love the remote desktop feature (come's in handy for helping out family members from college) I also use it to keep critical notes and such backed up to the web desktop.

Some downsides i've noticed after using Live Mesh for a bit:

1. Remote Desktop requires the installation of an ActiveX control on the machine you want to use to remote into your own.-This is a dealbreaker for me and (I suspect) many people who wanted to be able to access their home machine from a library, internet kiosk, etc. where user permissions are very restricted. They really need to create a java based version of the remote desktop app like LogMeIn, and/or create a Firefox extension (again like LogMeIn) that one could put in a portable version of Firefox.

2. As Theros123 said, there's a bug in Windows 7 w/ Live Mesh-this is little to me, It'll get updated/fixed pretty soon, me thinks.

Beside's those two gripes, I must say, Microsoft has a winner on their hands!

 

Really, it seems pretty zippy to me.

 

Hmmm, did they finally fix the issue where it would always connect through microsofts servers even if your on the same lan?

 

Hmm, that I don't know, I have connected remotely to a pretty underpowered machine (256 MB RAM, P3 533 Mhz, Windows XP Home) from within the same LAN and it seemed okay...

Perhaps my expectations were dulled down so much from my face to face experiences with that machine that any semblance of "good" performance would impress me.

 

So I have been using this on my W7 machine for some time now and it has worked flawless for me. I would have a hard time living without it. I am always going places and it has saved my butt when I really needed some info. The way it syncs all my data with other machines has been a life saver also.

 

Same, they fixed the graphical error now. And also, I think I figured out the window scrolling issue on XP is due to GPU drivers not Live Mesh.

 

I've been meaning to give this a try for some time. Maybe I'll get it set up this weekend.