 Welcome to Mobile Monday's here at Tech-Weekly. As more and more folks are starting to do the bulk of there computing either via laptop, handheld or by taking what they need with them loaded on their thumb drives. You are see less and less set one computer to a person. The application that I am going to talk about today is Foldershare. Up until last week I had not ever heard of this application. Nor did I know that this was something that is owned by Microsoft. Even though when you go to their webpage it says that this is a BETA version. It is a very solid application. Here how it works, instead of a complicated remote desktop application like PcAnywhere or even the easier to use Logmein. This program installs on any PC that you want to be able to access from any other PC on the Internet. For instance right now I have my PC at home installed with it and also my PC at work. What is nice about this program is that it is not only helpful for you, but say you have several family members that have a lot of pictures or even data files that you want to share with them. All you have to do is have everyone join in and decide whether they want to share their whole computer or only say a "Photo's file" in there my documents.  And what is really handy with this application is the "Syncing" function. You can for example have everyone in the family share one file named the same then set them all up to "Sync" regularly. That way every time anyone adds a photo to their file everyone will have it shortly there after. I have found the "Syncing" function especially handy in keeping my feeds all the same for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) between multiple computers. The Feed reader that comes with IE7 is nice but that was a real drawback in not being able to keep track of which feeds that you have already read from computer to computer. One final thing that I like about this application is that it is friendly with my companies Corporate Firewall. I was able to install and use this application even with the security on the Firewall cranked way down. Here is what the Microsoft Beta site mentions about this application: Sync Files • Sync your playlists • Share Outlook® folders • No more uploading and downloading to a server • Sync your Internet bookmarks • Find the presentation on your home computer • Never email large files again • Share home movies with friends • Sync your databases • Keep financial data in sync on multiple computers • Collaborate on documents with people thousands of miles away • Work as you work • Create your own peer to peer network • Share anything with anyone • Share your podcasts • Backup your files • Remotely download your files from any web browser • Synchronize RSS news • Secure file transfers • Send and receive large files • Play music from your home computer at your office • Securely share files with encrypted transfers • Sync Trillian between computers • Sync your Desktop • Sync My Documents • Share your digital photos • Collaborate with developers on code in real time • Instant "VPN" • Home office communication and collaboration Labels: Editorial, IE, Mobile Monday's
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