| This is not really a tutorial,
but hay it tells you stuff.
How to take your applications and information with you on
a USB key.
A few weeks ago I got me a 1 gig USB key. Its really cool,
I thought, but failed to find a single use for it. So after
looking around the web I came across a couple of app's and
games that have been tested by others to to run from a USB
key.
Over the last few days I have loaded up my key with the following
applications, tools and games:
Although many people who own USB keys don't use them for
anything more then storing a few pictures, the number of keys
on the market is growing daily. This is mainly because of
the fact that the USB key is set to replace the noble floppy
disc drive as the easiest and most common access to a none
windows environment. The CD/DVD drive has its brownie points,
but the delicate nature and space limitations of the media
make it impractical in many applications.
The USB key may also hold even greater asperations. It has
been put forward that the usb key may even replace DVD's as
the futuer media for distributing larger applications.
USB is an 'active' state media, where as floppies or CD/DVD's
are inactive media, Meaning CD's basicaly sit there and the
computer reads them like a book. Whereas a USB key, being
'active' recives a request from the pc for data. The key then
is able to choose weather to give the requested data or not.
This type of active media offers yet un-sold promises of
an even more secure (not to mention faster)media for software
houses to distribute there products.
Installing...
The programs are installed
PStart is a simple tray
tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable
applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you
can start anything run-able from USB key devices or removable
disks. Works well, but has a few minor bugs.
Firefox was my first chose
for a portable web browser, you can find a free download here
(fully functional) but many others can also be found. If you
care about your user profile and saving bookmarks, read the
info on the home page on how to set firefox up.
AbiWord is a free word
processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable
for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.
With the addition of the plug ins this app allows you to edit
MS word files as well.
1by1 1by1 is a small,
fast and handy player which is not only small: It provides
powerful tools to handle your file collection and listen to
your tracks. No frills but it works fine.
SIW is an utility that
displays detailed specs for motherboard, BIOS, CPU, devices,
memory, video, disk drives, ports, printers, operating system,
installed programs, processes, services, serial numbers (CD
keys), users, open files, system uptime, network, network
shares, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, memory, page
file usage and network traffic.
PuTTY is a free implementation
of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with
an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily
by Simon Tatham. The latest version is beta 0.58.
LBreakout2 offers you a
new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses
(goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses
(chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special
bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks
...). If you are still hungry for more after that you can
create your own levelsets with the integrated level editor.
FTP Server Lite Version
3.0 is a special version of an award winning FTP server, specially
created for beginners who do not need all the advanced features
of the professional version.
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