I’ve been using Live Mesh a lot since it launched – generally for two things: simple file sharing between PC’s in my house and sharing a few folder on my PC with work colleagues. With a little more time on my hands recently I’ve starting looking at a few additional uses – notably keeping music and photos in sync around the house but even more useful, keeping my favourites in sync across my PC’s and my blog post drafts (I use Windows Live Writer) stored in the cloud and synced across my several PC’s – allowing me to edit and post them anywhere.
I ended up stumbling across the Live Mesh Scenarios Directory with these and some other great scenarios by gurus such as Chris from Liveside. Well worth a look.
Here's one I didn't see on the list - connecting to and using (remote desktop style) a work machine from home when the VPN is down. A desperate measure that I didn't think would work, but it did.
There is even a way to get it to install on a 64-bit Windows 2008 Server (my laptop OS)
http://www.ditii.com/2008/07/29/live-mesh-on-windows-server-2008-x64-and-windows-home-server/
Eagerly awaiting Windows Mobile support.
Gareth
Do you keep your Messenger history? You can keep your Messenger history in sync across machines as well! You don't realise how useful that is until you actually do it!!!
-Jamie
a) Def not a guru
b) Have you checked out Orb.com recently? I've been using this at work since mesh got blocked (presumably because of the remote access) and although its basic and the UI sucks, the ability to play media remotely is awesome. Can't wait until the dev SDK allows for scenarios like this.
Woo, got it working! Currently have my work laptop and home laptop meshed up!
Rich
cool - glad to hear you're up and running Rich!
chris - you're a guru to me :)
not played with Orb for a while so good reminer to go check it out!
cheers
nice on Jamie - hadn't thought of that!