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PalmAddicts: Live Mesh for Windows Mobile .....
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog: Backup and Synchronize Google Docs with Office Documents
jkOnTheRun: FolderShare becomes Windows Live Sync. So what about Live Mesh?
Wired Top Stories: Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode
paidContent: Microsoft's Personal Reboot: Web-Centric, But Beyond "The Cloud"
Live Mesh for Windows Mobile .....
PalmAddicts —
... [From Hans] "Whooooo boy, today is a big day for Live Mesh. We are about to begin rolling have finished rolling out an update which brings our service and PC software to beta with significant new features, and includes the first technology previews of the Mac and Windows Mobile clients. " Thanks Hans and you can visit the Live Mesh Blog and make the jump to Live Mesh to sign up. ...
Backup and Synchronize Google Docs with Office Documents
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
Do you want to:
a. Download and create a backup of all Google Docs documents to a local folder on the hard drive?
b. Edit your Google Docs offline using Microsoft Word and then automatically sync changes when you are online.
c. Are you looking for an alternative to Docsyncer?
If you said yes to any of the above questions, what you really need is Syncplicity, a file backup and synchronization service on the lines of DropBox or Microsoft Live Mesh but with an additional feature – Syncplicity works with your Google Docs account. Let’s see how: ...
FolderShare becomes Windows Live Sync. So what about Live Mesh?
jkOnTheRun —
It's hard not to ask the question that many folks are already asking over on the Windows Live FolderShare Team blog. In reaction to an announcement that FolderShare is going away and getting replaced with Windows Live Sync, the obvious question is: why Live Sync and not Live Mesh? It's a fair puzzle to be perplexed over and it echoes the same sentiment we've had for a few years now: why have all of these overlapping tools in the Windows Live world?
I'm sure there are very good technical or platform reasons that these overlaps exist. Perhaps too much time, effort and money have been thrown at some ...
Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode
Wired Top Stories —
Microsoft's Personal Reboot: Web-Centric, But Beyond "The Cloud"
paidContent —
Steve Ballmer may be Microsoft's CEO, but Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is the more important "man behind the curtain." Tasked with filling Bill Gates' massive computing shoes since 2006, Ozzie's main focus has been helping to revamp MSFT's products and services so that they're relevant to the Web 2.0 generation—with the entrenched development team kicking and screaming the whole time. In a lengthy Wired profile, Ozzie lays out some of the steps MSFT has taken and continues to take in its quest to maintain supremacy both on- and offline:
—Shift from software, to "software plus services" : Selling ...
Live Mesh upgrades for Mac, Mobile and Desktop
jkOnTheRun —
... The Live Mesh client for Windows will also be getting an update, but that's not planned until next week. Altough there are several great cloud or web synchronization services out there, I highly recommend you give Live Mesh a look. Like some of my other faves, it supports cross-platform synchronization (Windows and Mac) which is key for many mobile users. I also like the Live Desktop feature which is a virtual desktop with all of your data that can be accessed from any computer over the web. ...
Soonr Brings Desktop Documents to Your iPhone [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
Soonr brings a nice application to the iPhone today which looks to be a real productivity booster. Check the video demonstration below or the press release (PDF) and you’ll see why I think that. The free application helps bridge the gap between your desktop and your iPhone thanks to the cloud. I expect we’ll see many more services like this in 2009 as 3G and WiFi hotspots continue expanding in terms of availability, not to mention decreased online storage costs.
Like the Dropbox web app on my iPhone, Soonr provides mobile access to your documents at home. The service synchronizes ...
Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Outside the Lines —
Last night I attended the Crunchies award ceremony, where Facebook took top honors as the best overall start-up (See the full list of Crunchies award winners). The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors.
The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook ...
Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Webware.com —
Last night I attended the Crunchies award ceremony, where Facebook took top honors as the best overall start-up (See the full list of Crunchies award winners). The awards are based on a popularity contest via votes cast through the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors.
The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook ...
Google Web Drive online storage service tipped in Picasa
SlashGear —
Google could be developing a new online storage system, if a screenshot from the new version of Picasa for Mac is to be believed. The image shows a new entry to the “Move to Collection” menu option, listing “Google Web Drive” among the usual array of folders and shortcuts.
Given Picasa users’ typically large photo libraries, and Google’s growing storage offering to GMail users, it seems entirely possible that the company is planning to launch an online backup service. Hacks and methods to use GMail as a storage system have been circulating almost since ...
7 Productivity Tips, Plus Tools for Freelancers and Web Workers
Mashable! —
Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com - a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter.
You know you can be better. We all can. It’s the reason productivity and personal development has made such a surge in recent years. The time of freelancers, writers, designers and other web workers has exploded, and the need for tools and methods to make them more productive has aligned naturally with that explosion.
Competition is higher than ever for these freelancers, so how do you begin to rise to the top? The ...
Microsoft announces mobile apps store, backup service
Macworld —
by Nancy Gohring , IDG News Service Microsoft will introduce an application store with its newest version of Windows Mobile software, it planned to announce at Mobile World Congress, where it also was to formally open a limited beta for its My Phone data backup offering. Windows Marketplace for Mobile will come with Windows Mobile 6.5, the newest version of the operating system, and will give users access to thousands of applications, said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager for Windows Mobile. Microsoft also introduced Windows Mobile 6.5 at MWC on Monday, saying the software should become available on phones early in ...
Windows Live Products Nominated For Webware 100 Awards
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... chat, play games, or swap photos with friends. Windows Live Hotmail, fast, easy, reliable e-mail, with storage that grows as you use it. Infrastructure & Storage (Vote!) Windows Live SkyDrive, with 25GB of free online file storage and sharing. Windows Live Sync, peer-to-peer file synching and sharing, plus remote access to multiple computers. Live Mesh (Beta) ties together your network of devices, synchronized folders, and cloud ...
5 Reasons You Should Get Over Hating Microsoft
Webmonkey —
... 2. You may not know it, but you can get 25 gigs for free on Windows Live. Microsoft’s SkyDrive gives you more than your free Gmail and Yahoo accounts combined. Even better, SkyDrive is built into the Windows 7 operating system, so it shows up in your shared drives just like if you had a hard drive on your local network. Users can upload and download files through their Windows Live accounts. However, with Windows Live Mesh, you can synchronize files on your Macs or Windows machines seamlessly. Soon enough, SkyDrive, Windows Live Mesh and another folder ...
The coming Windows 7 tsunami: OMG which version do I get?
The Inquisitr » Technology —
Just to clarify – this post is meant for all those windows users that are looking to upgrade to windows 7 when it finally hits the market. It isn’t meant for penguin lovers or apple tart fans so don’t bother with the snide comments because you are only showing how silly you are. Now – let’s move onto the ...
Microsoft launches vainglorious Wave site
The Microsoft Blog —
Microsoft Wave is now online to show off the "cool" software and hardware Microsoft develops. That includes Live Mesh , Photosynth , pptPlex , Songsmith , WorldWide Telescope , AutoCollage , DeepZoom , Tag , Surface , Xbox Project Natal and some Xbox games. [image] You know, the cool stuff. "Microsoft Wave is a cool new site from our UK team that is something we've long been without - a cool site that isn't trying to sell anything, simply showing the breadth of cool technology that Microsoft is involved in," wrote Steve Clayton, Microsoft's " ...
Regretful upgrade: Snow Leopard incompatibilities
ZDNet News - News Page One —
By Rafe Needleman CNET News Posted on ZDNet News : Sep 01, 2009 1:38:49 PM Apple's $29 operating-system upgrade, Snow Leopard, is for most users a straightforward and worthwhile upgrade. But some are regretting their haste in upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Little incompatibilities with existing apps are causing headaches and slowing down work flow. It's not the current versions of the big apps that don't work, of course. The latest version of Photoshop still runs. Even the current versions of the close-to-the-metal virtualization applications Parallels and VMware Fusion work in Snow Leopard. Apple's own apps--Mail, Calendar, ...
