Live Mesh – Synchronising Folders

Posted by Edward on 10 Nov 2008 in How To | 4 comments

I've been using Live Mesh for a while now, and in general I am very pleased with the way it works. However, there is one feature I have struggled with which is not entirely intuitive - and that is synchronising folders between two (or more) computers and retaining the same directory path to the files on all machines. This post provides a solution to this problem.

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Cloud Storage: On SugarSync, DropBox & Live Mesh

Posted by Edward on 12 Oct 2008 in Forward Thinking, How To | 15 comments

This article is a report on my recent experience with "going virtual" using the Cloud-based synchronisation tools SugarSync, DropBox and Live Mesh. Results are generally promising, although there were a few teething problems, and I have included pointers for you if you are experiencing similar issues.

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AJAX versus Flash

Posted by Edward on 1 Nov 2006 in Forward Thinking, How To | 0 comments

AJAX or Flash - Which is better? I have wondered for some time about why Flash never really caught on with its concept of Rich Media Applications. After all, it provided an application-like interface built around ActionScript (an OO JavaScript-esque language) with XML pipes long before AJAX became popular.

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