The USB Key / flash drive / memory stick / happy stick (tm Jules) is just about de rigueur for all computer users now. They have taken over from floppy disks for file storage because of their size, speed and memory space.
My first flash drive held a staggering eight megabytes of stuff. What am I saying. It still does. It’s around here somewhere!
These days I use a couple of Data Travellers from Kingston (64MB and 256MB) for everyday storage. The 64MB is a backup of my most important work files and the great thing is that I can swap it between my Pc and my Mac and have the data available in a flash (bad pun). I also use a couple of Kingston SD cards (512MB and 1Gb) and a small USB card reader to move files between my computers and my iPaq.
We gave USB keys to every teacher in our ICT cluster. It seemed like a good way for them to transport and store important files and data.
I’m noticing a bit of chatter around the net about must have programmes for your USB key. It’s possible to run a complete Office setup and a browser and PIM from a key. There is plenty of information about that here.
I blogged about this back in June – so from my dead blog – here are the links:
Portable Firefox
Portable Thunderbird
Portable Sunbird
Portable Nvu
Portable Open Office
This could be a useful way for some people to use decent software where ever they are.
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