30 May, 2008 Neil Cocker1 Comment on Another fine Mesh!
I think I'm in love with Microsoft's Live Mesh. It's made things a lot more easy for me.
So, this morning I was working in my office. I made some changes to a document in Open Office (not Word, sorry Microsoft!) and when I saved them Live Mesh sent the changes over the internet to my account in the "cloud", which were then very quickly downloaded (in the background) when I logged on via my laptop in my local cafe. Meaning I didn't have to do any file transferring before I went out to work remotely. It was done quietly, quickly and silently in the background.
– All the files are stored locally, on the machine you're working on, as well as online so you only ever download any updates to files. The files open instantly and normally. You don't have to wait for them to download.
– This is basically like having a local network where you can access a folder from any computer on that network. But it's done over the internet.
– You can invite other people with Live Mesh to have access to particular folders. So collaborative, remote working is a breeze.
– It's done really, really well. Once I'd uploaded all the files I needed to be available from anywhere (and then downloaded them to the other machines too), I was pretty much ready to go. It's been a dream for me because I work from a couple of different machines and often find myself in a cafe, realising that the document I need is sat on my machine at home.
*It needs to be noted that I'm making assumptions about much of this stuff. I really have no idea how it works technically!
Thanks for the tip-off Neil. I am also an Open Office fan, and had no idea Live Mesh would work on non-Microsoft files.
Now whether it works (properly) on Macs is another kettle o' fish!
And what I am really looking for is something that will easily sync my iTunes libraries on my laptop, desktop & network drive. Any tips for that?