I've been using Live Mesh for about 3 months now in various forms of Beta, and its worthy of a mention. If you work in various locations on various machines, they could be Apple or Microsoft OS's, also blackberry's and smartphone's. The "MESH" cloud enabled you to store documents and files in the ether, choosing which folders to sync up with which machine. You simply sign up (with your live ID) and install a client.

Also is the facility to remote control any of your machines from any of the other machines in your "MESH". The nice use of the RC client is you can choose if you want the remote desktop scaled to your local size, or switch to 1:1. Also cut-n-paste is supported, and no amount of desktop resizing seems to put if off.

This cheered me up this morning.

Not for speakers in an open plan office. Headphones.

I’ve written as web service that will thumbnail any website…

You can access through a webpage here, and the service here.

If you request I can do a tutorial on this…

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973&displaylang=en

New ones for me:-

F12 (jump to definition)
Ctrl+Shift+V (cycle through clip board)
Ctrl when showing IntelliSense options (makes IntelliSense transparent)

We’re all very cautious of others using our computers, maybe downloading some application from an unknown source. But we should also be weary of *some hardware.

You remember when you install a virgin fresh install of Windows XP or Vista, and you get hit with a ton of updates??? I thought Microsoft users always got it the worst, with between 60-80 updates to bring it bang up to date..

Well Linux users have it worse…

243 updates

Nice….

Is now downloaded, installed and being used productively.
So far I’ve installed:-

• VS 2008 + sp1
• SQL 2005 + sp3
• Open office (waiting for Office 2011)
• Team studio client

All working without issue, interesting point to note, no drivers were required, it all just worked.

What I like:

• Multi-screen hotkeys
• Taskbar
• Startup and shutdown speed

What I don’t like:

• Some execution prompts (I’ll dig a bit further into these)