Sunday, September 24, 2006
U3 rocks
Okay, it's not a new musical group. It's U3. And it puts a great, useful technology at your fingertips. Uhmmm thumbtips. Uhmmmm thumbdrives. You see, U3 is an executable menu/program/storage concept for USB Flash "thumbdrives." And it works!!!
For general information, http://www.u3.com is your link. There is a world of good applications that can run from a U3-device. When you plug in the U3-enabled flash drive, two partitions are visible: a control, or U3 partition and another, the data/program partition. You use the U3 menu, PSTART, to add applications to the menu system. These install on the flash drive. Many applications are available, these so-called "portable applications." Firefox, OpenOffice, Putty, etc., are amoung the list.
When applications are run from a U3, they save configurations and data to the U3 flash drive, not the PC they run on. So they can go from PC to PC to PC, never leaving a "trail," or sensitive data anywhere. AND, yes, you CAN encrypt your data on the U3. And should.
I keep an addressbook/calendar on it (EssentialPIM), all of my client data that I might need on the road (simple data files, encrypted), usernames/passwords (encrypted), IP info, etc.
More soon...
For general information, http://www.u3.com is your link. There is a world of good applications that can run from a U3-device. When you plug in the U3-enabled flash drive, two partitions are visible: a control, or U3 partition and another, the data/program partition. You use the U3 menu, PSTART, to add applications to the menu system. These install on the flash drive. Many applications are available, these so-called "portable applications." Firefox, OpenOffice, Putty, etc., are amoung the list.
When applications are run from a U3, they save configurations and data to the U3 flash drive, not the PC they run on. So they can go from PC to PC to PC, never leaving a "trail," or sensitive data anywhere. AND, yes, you CAN encrypt your data on the U3. And should.
I keep an addressbook/calendar on it (EssentialPIM), all of my client data that I might need on the road (simple data files, encrypted), usernames/passwords (encrypted), IP info, etc.
More soon...
# posted by DrOpenVMS @ 9:48 AM 
