Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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This is so unreal I’m not even sure what to do.
So there is this app called FolderShare. It’s amazing. More on that later, cause that’s not what I’m excited about. FolderShare just added support for MSN Desktop Search. What does this mean?
Log on to FolderShare from any computer on the planet. Enter text in the search box, and watch as you get back results from anything that is indexed on your machine running MSN Desktop Search. Holy freaking cow! I need more cowbell!
I didn’t think this would be useful till I was looking for a serial number for BlogJet which I have on my laptop but not my home PC. So I went to FolderShare.com, entered “subject:BlogJet” and the result was right there. I could pull up the email, and copy the Key.
Mind you, this email was in my Hotmail account, which I download to my PC using MSN Outlook Connector, which then gets indexed by MSN Deskopt Search. That's a lot of MSN goodness.
Freaking awesome I tell you. How much is this feature worth alone? At least the price of a FolderShare subscription. I know I am going to use this a ton. I can’t stand having multiple computers and being stuck without access to information that’s on another computer.
Not to mention FolderShare is amazing. I’ve replaced Groove File Sync with FolderShare due to the performance issues of running Groove with thousands of files (it would take over my machine for a while and consume a lot of CPU at times).