Comments on: What’s on your Desktop? http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/ Developer.Speaker.Blogger Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Chirag Patel http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-1736 Chirag Patel Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:19:27 +0000 http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/#comment-1736 Dan, Yes you can share folders with friends, family or your team members. I've used Live Sync (FolderShare) for about a year now and absolutely love it. My personal machine is a mac and Live Sync works on both mac's and pc's. The other thing I love about live sync, is that I can actually access files that from any of my active machines from anywhere via a web interface. Also check out startup manager, it's a Coding4Fun app that I found over the summer. It lets you control what applications startup and what order they start, also allows you at add a delay so your most important applications start up first and then the ones you don't need right away. I have mine set to start snagit as the last item and only when the the cpu is idle since I really don't need this app as soon as I start my machine. If you have quite a few items in your startup folder like I do, then this tool is a must have. http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2008/03/17/8290797.aspx ~Chirag Dan,

Yes you can share folders with friends, family or your team members. I’ve used Live Sync (FolderShare) for about a year now and absolutely love it. My personal machine is a mac and Live Sync works on both mac’s and pc’s. The other thing I love about live sync, is that I can actually access files that from any of my active machines from anywhere via a web interface.

Also check out startup manager, it’s a Coding4Fun app that I found over the summer. It lets you control what applications startup and what order they start, also allows you at add a delay so your most important applications start up first and then the ones you don’t need right away. I have mine set to start snagit as the last item and only when the the cpu is idle since I really don’t need this app as soon as I start my machine. If you have quite a few items in your startup folder like I do, then this tool is a must have.

http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2008/03/17/8290797.aspx

~Chirag

]]> By: Dan Rigsby http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Dan Rigsby Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:57:08 +0000 http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/#comment-1579 I am not as familiar with LIve Sync, but can you share folders with others? I share some folders with family or team members. I am not as familiar with LIve Sync, but can you share folders with others? I share some folders with family or team members.

]]> By: Shane Milton http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-1578 Shane Milton Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:14:16 +0000 http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/14/whats-on-your-desktop/#comment-1578 One thing that I notice is that so many people use Live Mesh and so very few people use Live Sync (formerly Live FolderShare). I personally use Live Sync and not Mesh for the following reasons: 1) Synchronized Folders exists in a nearly identical fashion (the #1 reason to use either) 2) It seems to be lighter weight (i.e. faster/more stable, in theory) 3) It is my understanding that the storage space for all shared files is more-or-less a peer-to-peer type of system where Live Mesh stores some on some unknown cloud server. This may be important or at least preferable to some. (To be fair, this could also be a drawback for some too because, what if all of your PCs are down that are sharing the content - then there is nowhere to pull the files from. But I keep about 6ish PCs in various locations sync'd so this isn't much of a concern for me.) 4) Many other features that are nearly identical to Live Mesh. So I'm curious - what has compelled you to use Live Mesh over Live Sync? My understanding are that there are three major features that I could very realistically see people wanting in Mesh that aren't there in Sync: 1) Synchronized Desktop (not sure of the true feature name) 2) Cloud storage that isn't dependent on my personal machines 3) History/Chat/Messaging/various other little metadata-type features -Shane One thing that I notice is that so many people use Live Mesh and so very few people use Live Sync (formerly Live FolderShare). I personally use Live Sync and not Mesh for the following reasons:
1) Synchronized Folders exists in a nearly identical fashion (the #1 reason to use either)
2) It seems to be lighter weight (i.e. faster/more stable, in theory)
3) It is my understanding that the storage space for all shared files is more-or-less a peer-to-peer type of system where Live Mesh stores some on some unknown cloud server. This may be important or at least preferable to some. (To be fair, this could also be a drawback for some too because, what if all of your PCs are down that are sharing the content – then there is nowhere to pull the files from. But I keep about 6ish PCs in various locations sync’d so this isn’t much of a concern for me.)
4) Many other features that are nearly identical to Live Mesh.

So I’m curious – what has compelled you to use Live Mesh over Live Sync? My understanding are that there are three major features that I could very realistically see people wanting in Mesh that aren’t there in Sync:
1) Synchronized Desktop (not sure of the true feature name)
2) Cloud storage that isn’t dependent on my personal machines
3) History/Chat/Messaging/various other little metadata-type features

-Shane

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