Microsoft has come up with a slick answer to Apple's MobileMe cloud service. It's called Live Mesh, and it's free. It syncs files in folders you designate on your Mac to your Windows PC, of course. And when you're away from your computers, you can access your files on Live Desktop in a browser. The Live Mesh software is for Intel Macs only, so if you have an older Mac, you too will need to run Live Desktop. Live Mesh doesn't have all the bells & whistles of MobileMe or its tight integration with Apple apps. But if you add Google's list of free Mac apps and services along with Live Mesh, you basically have a MobileMe equivalent for free.
Live Mesh for Mac is in beta, but you can sign up for a Live account to try it out. It comes with a generous 5GB of cloud storage, enough to sync lots and lots of stuff.
You may be surprised to find this type of sync software for Mac made by Microsoft, but did you know before Live Mesh, Microsoft has acquired FolderShare that does exactly that, sans the cloud?
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