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Life after Thumbdrives Part 2 - Microsoft's Live Mesh
Ricardo Trejo
Our own Nick Mahar posted a while ago about Dropbox.com and how he's been using it to do away with the thumbdrive lifestyle. It's been common place to move physical data along with you in a drive to either relocate or file share with friends, or just between your own devices. So having a site or serivce that allows you upload and synchronize your files makes it that less painful, and much more enjoyable to access those files.
I myself have been using Microsoft's Live Mesh for a good while now and I'm pretty pleased with the results. Like Dropbox it's free and easy to use, but the big selling point for me was the heaping 5GB's of storage to fiddle around with. With that space I made a couple of media folders; some music, some photos and videos; and then invited some of my friends via Mesh, and using their own Live accounts, gave them access to those folders. It's always been a pain to send invidual files over MSN or other services, so having a place where we can all go and pick and choose what we want has been the coolest thing to come out in a while.
All you need to use the service is go to Mesh.com, sign in with your Live account, and you're set to go
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