A Dozen Free Mac OSX Applications I Couldn’t Live Without -part 8

Live Mesh from Microsoft

Although not a big Microsoft supporter, I must admit that they do have a decent free online storage service or Online desktop as they call it.

This service -because it is more then just an application- provides you with an online desktop of 5GB and let’s you synchronize certain folders on your Mac with your online desktop.

You can choose if this should happen one-way or bidirectional. Live Mesh is currently in it’s beta phase and supports only Intel Macs running Leopard (OS X 10.5) or Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)

You have to download the Live Mesh agent which provides you information about which folders are being synched between Mac and Online Desktop and which Users have access to those folders.

You can access your files from any random computer with an internet connection, you can share these files or specific folders with other users.

I use it personally to backup my documents and professionally to share documents with colleagues.

The betaversion vcan be tried and downloaded here.

A Dozen Free Mac OSX Applications I Couldn’t Live Without -part 1

I will be posting the next few days some free Mac tools that I believe are truly amazing.. Wether it is in my professional or private Mac, these nifty applications will always be present on a Mac I am using.

The first one I want to introduce is:

 Cyberduck – Free FTP CLIENT



I am quite sure there have to be more then a dozen other free ftp-apps for Mac, but I am using this ftp client for several years now and frankly I can’t complain.

It’s basic and very simple easy-to-use interface makes connecting to ftp-sites a matter of seconds.

It has a very useful bookmark tab to store your favourite servers, but it also keeps a history of recently visited sites.

Also very useful is the ability of Cyberduck to store the passwords for visited sites in your osx Keychain.

If you are interested you can download Cyberduck at the developers site here.