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A Live Mesh Moment

  • Artikkeli

While I was out in the bush near Krueger national park in South Africa recently I found a great use for Live Mesh...  After a full day of seeing some excellent big game I had a ton of photos to show for my effort.

Later that night, back in the lodge, I was briefly able to get on the spotty, very low bandwidth wireless network to work for me.  So I shared my pictures using live mesh and immediately shared getting a cloud hosted backup of my precious photos.   As they were uploading I was thinking about how much I wanted to share this experience with my wife and kids who where half a world away and fast asleep. 

I thought it would be fun to make the kitchen laptop display my latest pictures.  So I "connected" to my wife's machine and effectively got a terminal server session from 10,000+ miles away. image

It was exactly like I was sitting at the keyboard of our kitchen laptop.  Even over the very bad network, I was quickly able to change her screen saver to point to the new live mesh folder with my great pictures. 

When they got up that morning, my five year old son was the first to notice pictures of giraffes and lions on the kitchen laptop!  The magic of shared experiences through live mesh!

Throughout the trip whenever I was able to get a little network connectivity a few more pictures would get uploaded and by the time I got the MS office in Johannesburg my family had a full copy of my adventures.

Thanks Mesh.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2008
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/07/a-live-mesh-moment/

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    July 15, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2008
    You've gotta love kruger.  Did you see any lions?  I spent 2 weeks in kruger and didn't see any.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2008
    Brad, Are you sure that was your wife's PC?  I found lions, tigers and bears on my PC today... Kidding, that's a great Mesh scenario!  Thanks for sharing.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2008
    I've been using Mesh for a while. I really like the remote desktop function. It simply works. I have a question: the Mesh software that's running on your wife's computer, it's running under your own account? My wife subscribed to Mesh, but I did not find any way to allow someone else to share your remote desktop. I suspect it's something that would be quite useful. For example, I could install Mesh on my mom's computer to help her remotely when she has questions. I wouldn't dare installing Mesh on her computer using my account, which I also use for more important stuff! Also, for sharing folders. I'm quite technical, but I've had trouble with the following scenario. If I have an existing folder with existing files I want to share. If I activate this folder on another computer, it rarely syncs. I've had luck when adding files to a Mesh folder, but not while sharing an existing folder. Any thoughts? Finally, I can't wait for the Calendar/Contacts syncing + the developer's SDK!

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    Great use!!! I use Mesh to share my VS settings: http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2008/06/30/sync-your-visual-studio-settings-with-live-mesh.aspx

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    [Post directly inspired by Brad Abrams ] Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    [Post directly inspired by Brad Abrams ] Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your

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    December 02, 2008
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