Choosing between Live Mesh / Live Sync / Live Drive for synchronising files between PCs

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Iain Magee

We’ve been using Microsoft Groove for a couple of years now to synchronise a shared company folder between our geographically distributed users. It hasn’t been touched since it was set up two or three years ago and I’ve been wanting to revisit and look at alternatives for a while.  Groove is overkill for us and [...]

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It’s all about thin clients on a grand scale

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Iain Magee

We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years [...]

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Software As A Service / The Cloud!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Iain Magee

I’ve resisted this for a long time, preferring the traditional self-hosted, outright purchase model and have been a very reluctant convert! But over the last few months I’ve been starting to use more applications that operate on a SAAS basis.

Evernote
Remember The Milk
SourceAnywhere Hosted
Net Intelligence
Google Apps

Why?

These applications are VERY good at what they do – they [...]

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