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Moving Dropbox

By default, Dropbox stores stuff somewhere under “My Documents” on XP or under “Documents” on Vista. I’ve never had a problem with that – until I started to use it on my Eee netbook. See, that has a tiny little 4GB solid state drive. Where possible, I like to move “transient” and cache data off

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FolderShare is Going Away

At some point in December, Microsoft’s FolderShare is going away. I used to use this a lot until they dropped Windows 2000 support. Now, instead of FolderShare, we’ll have Windows Live Sync instead (see details)

In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It’s

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Taking a Leave from Mesh

I’ve been dabbling with Microsoft’s Live Mesh since last April. Just last month I was debating between using Mesh or Dropbox for my online storage needs. It was close, but at the time I chose Mesh.

Today I decided that I’m ready to be done with Mesh for a while. I kept hoping to get

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Windows Live Mesh or DropBox?

I’ve been experimenting with both DropBox and Windows Live Mesh the last few weeks. Both have their strong points, both have weaknesses. I keep switching back and forth trying to decide which one to stick with.

That Syncing Feeling

What do I like about both? Both make it very simple to sync directories between machines. These aren’t

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Microsoft Mesh Beta: First Look

Last Monday the Mesh Team blog announced the “Technology Preview” for Windows Live Mesh.

What’s Mesh? Well think of it as a combination of FolderShare, Hamachi, Remote Desktop or LogMeIn and any number of web based desktops and storage systems (remember SkyDrive?). The post announcing it has an apt paragraph summing it up:

I don’t know

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