Tutorial: Keeping your devices upto date using Live Mesh

[Taimur Asad]

I have written a couple of scenario based tutorials to guide you all on how to synchronize your browsers favorites and RSS feeds across multiple devices so that they are always upto date :).

So to start with, I have written a couple of tutorials on two different scenarios which guides you to synchronize your favorites and RSS feeds across multiple devices so that you can access them where ever and when ever you want always up to date. The tutorial below uses IE in Windows Vista as the example device, you can apply this to pretty much every device and browser out there.

Scenario #1: Synchronizing your browser favorites:

Step 1: On your deviceA, go to your ?Favorites? folder usually in C:\Users\[username]\Favorites, right click on it and click on ?Add folder to your Live Mesh?.

Step 2: In synchronization settings, select the devices to which you want to synchronize your favorites with.

Your deviceA is now set up to sync your favorites. It will take a while(depending on your Internet connection) for deviceA to upload all your favorites to Live Desktop.

Step 3: Now on deviceB, go to C:\Users\[username]\Live Mesh Folders\. Here you will see a blue colored(faded) shortcut for your favorites folder. Double click on it and set the location(usually C:\Users\[username]\Live Mesh Folders\) of your favorites folder on the deviceB to synchronize with all the favorites from your deviceA and Live Desktop.

That?s it. You have successfully synchronized your browser favorites from deviceA to Live Desktop to deviceB.

Step 4: Similarly, you can repeat step 3 to synchronize your favorites with [...]

view the complete tutorial illustrated with images here

Edited July 17, 2008 by Taimur Asad