Live Mesh: MacOS, Windows Mobile

Live Mesh Technical Preview has been extended to the Mac:

· To get access to the Mac client, sign in to www.mesh.com, click Add Device, and then click the “Limited Mac Tech Preview now available” link underneath the Install button. If we haven’t exceeded the limit for Mac clients, you’ll get a confirmation dialog, and then Mac will show up under the available list of devices when you choose Add Device from the ring. (MacOS X 10.5.1 or higher required)

At the same time, Microsoft has released a client for Windows Mobile 6.x:

To get access to the Windows Mobile 6.x client, click on one of the following links (US residents, UK residents). Sign in with your LiveID, and you’ll be redirected to the device ring where you’ll see a link to “Use Live Mesh for mobile devices.” Alternately, once you’ve signed in this way, the mobile client should be available for download by pointing your phone’s browser to http://m.mesh.com

I’ve been using the Mac client for some weeks now, and I am mightily impressed. Being able to take a photo on your Windows Mobile and have the resulting images “magically” appear in your devices is way cool.

Live Mesh

Nic Fillingham, Aussie in Seattle for on10.net, goes Hands on with Live Mesh

Jon Udell interviews Ray Ozzie.

(more videos on the team blog, here)

This has to be the technology of 2008. Live Mesh.

I’ve installed it on General Melchett (home), Captain Darling (work craptop) and little PrinceEdmund (EEE PC) – and the ability to share files “in the mesh” is just easy.

Right click on a folder, add to the mesh (I’ve done this with my Favourites folder)

Go to second machine, right click and add to the mesh – and Live Mesh recognises the similarities and allows you to synch the two directories.

Yes, Mac OS X client and Windows Mobile client are on their way, too.