home | about | newsletters | contact | advertising | shop | radio | courses | widget | site map

Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On And Live The Digital Lifestyle

Is It Possible To Make $141,657.15 While Playing With Your PC?
» Learn More About PCMech Premium Program
Big Things Are About To Happen Here

Login: Password: Remember me

Take Apps With you on USB Drive

Posted Mar 14, 2005 by David Risley  

USB drives have gotten larger and cheaper, and hence they have become more and more popular. They are actually cool little devices. They are small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, but you can plug them into any USB port and have immediate access to the data contained therein. These little guys can be used to carry your important data or documents around with you, but they can also be used to carry entire programs if you want to. Want to be able to carry your entire buddy list with you and chat from any PC? Just load it and your favorite chat program into the USB drive. Want to bring your MPS playlist with you? Load it up onto the USB drive (of course you can quickly fill it up with a bunch of MP3 files so you might want a larger drive).

You will want to have a USB 2.0 interface on your PC to use these little drives. Although they will work on USB 1.1, the speed would be grueling in comparison.

For a list of USB drives, go to our price comparison

Got The Newsletter?

Exclusive PCMech Content. Sign up and receive our free report: 20 Tips For Becoming a Technology Power User.

NAME:
EMAIL:

PCMech Highly Recommends...

The Hacker's Nightmare is a full 500+ pages of valuable content. It has plenty of diagrams and illustrations and is broken down into small sections with easy step-by-step procedures. This is what I like about this book. It is powerful information that everybody needs, but it doesn't read like a boring computer manual. LEARN MORE

Best of PCMech