Techno Granny Show, Microsoft Live Mesh

This show was taped live on February 16, 2009 and can be heard archived at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986

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Live Mesh (www.mesh.com) is a recent technology that users can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Through ease of accessibility, files may be retrieved from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.
In the current environment, e-mail is the greatest communicator between the user and their documents. With Live Mesh, computer synchronization is the next wave as devices need a basic internet connection. Another great benefit from this technology, is that devices across many different companies (i.e. Apple) are not left out of the meshing sequence.
The current beta version can be found on the Web site. The full version is due out sometime in 2009.
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Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need—and the programs that open them—often don’t. Live Mesh changes all that.
With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.
Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it.
Live Mesh is as easy as sync , share , and access
Live Mesh Turns Car into Mobile Computing Platform
Using Azure Services Platform, a Microsoft “motoring guy” links his Porsche to GPS, music, Internet and more
Live Mesh itself is part of what Microsoft calls Live Services, one of the building blocks of Microsoft’s new Azure Services Platform, unveiled in November at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. The Azure Services Platform is a “cloud” platform hosted at Microsoft data centers. It’s designed to give developers and others the ability to easily develop and scale up applications that, among other benefits, can run on a wide variety of devices.
At PDC, Live Mesh served as a prime example of what Microsoft’s approach to cloud computing – called software-plus-services – can offer. Live Mesh and Live Services offer the pipeline through which information flows to devices, friends, and coworkers.
Live Desktop
Your Windows PC on the web—complete with 5 GB of free storage space—where you can see all your synchronized folders in one place. It lives on the web, which means that even if you‘re not at one of your computers, you can still access and work with your folders from any computer that‘s connected to the Internet.
Mesh bar
Appears whenever you open a folder in your mesh, helping you manage your files and the members you invite to share them. Use the mesh bar to:
• Invite or manage members
• See who has access to the folder
• See news related to the folder
• Post messages to the folder
• Chat with members using Windows Live Messenger*
• Change synchronization settings for the folder



Mac*
Add a Mac to your mesh. Sync and share folders between your PC and your Mac. Or your friend’s Mac. Or between two Macs. Live Mesh gives you cross-platform functionality, so you can maximize your mesh.
Mobile*
Take your mesh with you wherever you go. From any mobile phone with web access, go to mesh.com to work with your synchronized folders, upload photos to share with others, read news about your mesh, and more.
Microsoft’s new Live Services and Live Mesh tools can do much more than link automobiles to a music collection, of course. As part of the Azure Services Platform, they’re the digital plumbing software developers can use to link any number of digital data sources, notebooks and phones and other pieces of hardware, and the people that need that data every day. The MeshMobile is the one of what could be thousands of new applications based on Live Mesh and Live Services.
Get started
Find your way around quickly with these brief how-to guides:

• What you need
• Create your mesh
• Sync folders
• Share folders
• Use your Live Desktop
• Connect to a remote computer
• Use a mobile phone
Synchronizing life
now on Mac & mobile!
Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need--and the programs that open them--often don't. Live Mesh changes all that.
Sync. Stop emailing yourself. Get files across your devices by synchronizing them instead.

Add each device to your mesh by installing Live Mesh software, and then choose folders to sync. You can sync a folder with one or two of your devices or all of them.

Share. Live Mesh makes it easy to share your stuff. Invite others to share a Live Mesh folder and keep it in sync on everyone's devices as files are added or updated.

Want to know what's happening in folders you're sharing--such as when members are invited or a file is changed? Live Mesh News notifies you every step of the way.

Access. When you sign up for Live Mesh, you automatically get your own personal Live Desktop—your Windows PC on the web—complete with 5 GB of free storage. Synchronize files to your Live Desktop, and you’ll be able to access them using almost any web browser, no matter where you are.
And who says you can’t be in two different places at once? With Live Mesh, you can connect remotely from one computer to another, so you can access files, programs, and settings as if you were sitting in front of that remote computer.