Live Mesh for Mac receives service update

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Good news if you're a fan of Live Mesh, but are using Mac OS X: Microsoft has released a software update to the Mac version of Live Mesh, bringing new features and bug fixes.

Here's a list of the updates to Live Mesh, according to the Live Mesh blog:

Features

* New Media Viewer on the Live Desktop.
* Live Mesh News will now display the date (as well as time) for all news items, even older ones.

Fixes

* Improved the Live Desktop quota calculation.
* Optimized MOE CPU/memory use.
* Fixed Mac client startup errors that caused client to shut down shortly after launching.
* Mac passwords containing extended characters now work properly.
* Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop, in the notifier, and in the Mesh bar.
* News now correctly displays the year.

For those of you keeping track, the new version numbers are:

* Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3821.962
* Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.31

Keep your eye out for more Live Mesh releases as they are announced.

#1 ekw on 06 Mar 2009 - 08:37

still waiting on the drag and drop upload feature before i actually use it!!

#2 DawnUnder2002 on 06 Mar 2009 - 12:08

Why? You can just right-click on a file or folder and assign it to be uploaded to Live Mesh Desktop. I have been using Live Mesh for months now to keep my laptop and work desktop synched with the info I use daily, it is a great little app!

(1 reply) #3 +majortom1981 on 06 Mar 2009 - 12:25

Stupid question . I don't have a mac but i am curious. Does the live mesh for mac osx include the remote desktop feature like the windows version does?

#3.1 kirkdickinson on 06 Mar 2009 - 14:34

No. The remote desktop is supported through Active-X. I can't get it to work on my Mac or in the Firefox browser in Windows, only MSIE. The other stuff works from Firefox or Safari, but not the LiveDesktop.

(1 reply) #4 Rudy on 06 Mar 2009 - 20:35

what's the difference between this and Live sync

#4.1 9UnknownMen on 06 Mar 2009 - 20:58

Not much. Mesh is technically a cloud platform with the Sync app being part of it. Wile Live sync is part of the Win Live Essentials package. They love redundancies.

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