Windows Live Mesh Rocks

I’ve been using Windows Live Mesh now for a while and I must admit I love it. I now no longer have to bother about keeping files on my various machines up to date. I just have a couple of Live Mesh synchronised folders and I lob all the important stuff into there.

Live Mesh gives you on-line storage that is synchronised to the hard disk of one or more computers. Each computer runs the Live Mesh software which makes sure that whenever you change a file on one of the machines the copies on the other devices are automatically updated next time they connect to the network. It even provides a log of your activity, so you can track back what you have been up to.

Now, when I take my portable along to a lecture I don’t have to worry about putting the latest presentations onto it because I know they are already there. If I forgot the machine completely I could even use a web browser to pull the files off the Live Mesh online storage.

You get 5Gbytes of storage for free, and that is more than enough for a year’s worth of lecture notes and other teaching stuff. In fact, the service is so good that I’d pay to have more than that. If there was an annual subscription like I could put all my important stuff out there and I’d be happy to pay for that.

For students I can’t think why you wouldn’t use it. It would mean that you never lost your notes or programs, even if someone made off with your precious laptop.

Find out more at:

https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx

Comments

[Oliver Drew]

I've been using a mixture of DropBox and SVN (on a home server) to keep hold of my PhD related files and code. Online storage and synching are great tools to utilise...didn't know about Mesh though - thanks for that Rob!!

[Ben]

After Microsoft and T-Mobile just lost all the data from the SideKick cloud I don't recommend anybody entrust their data with them, seems like they did a SAN upgrade without making any kind of backups, the upgrade failed and they seemingly have lost everything.

http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/personal-information-lost for more information on this fiasco.