Get into the Mesh
If you’ve been hiding under some kind of rock, stone or generally heavy object you may have missed the tech preview of Live Mesh from Microsoft. A “Cloud” based system which allows you to add many devices to your mesh, synchronizing data between anything that needs your data.
A really neat feature is that a PC (and soon Mac) device in your mash can be remote controlled from any machine with a browser and Internet connection.
I’m using it to sync critical code data from several developer machines so that I can work on the code from anywhere. The sync is the best I’ve seen so far in terms of backing up files. Microsoft give you a generous 5 gigs for free. Hopefully when this goes live we’ll be able to buy some more space.
Files are all transferred using SSL so should be secure (“should”) :) – anyway, nobody can view your mesh unless you give them access to specific folders which is a nice feature for sharing docs with work colleagues.
Here is a web view of a mesh Desktop:
You can get into the preview by going to http://www.mesh.com/ – invites are going out pretty quickly at the moment. I waited about a day.
