General - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:23 - 0 Comments

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.