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Poker Chip USB drive giveaways are a big win at charity poker events

Order Poker Chip USB Drives for your next Charitable Event

Did you know that there are more than 60 million poker players in the United States, and more than 100 million worldwide? Poker tournaments have gone mainstream- they’re on television, and have a huge following. Charity poker is even bigger than traditional charity golf, billiards or tennis events.

Charity poker tournaments are such a fun and rewarding way to donate to a worthy cause. There are so many charitable foundations, organizations and poker rooms that need your support and helping out with a game of poker is a great way to help. They’re a great idea to build awareness for your brand and goodwill simultaneously.

When you plan your next event be sure to also order Poker Chip USB drives with your promotional information pre-loaded on them.   We can pre-load videos, audio, presentations, digital flyers, software, applications and nearly any digital data. Ordering them couldn’t be easier and we’re standing by to lend you a hand at  CreativeUSB.com.

Check out this upcoming Chairtable Poker Event

The Bicycle Casino is proud to support Fallen Heroes USA by hosting the February 19, 2012 ”For the Families” Celebrity Charity No Limit Hold’em Poker Tournament. Our Event Center doors will open at 1:30 p.m. and our popular 5-star lunch buffet will be served at 2:00 p.m., with the shuffle-up and deal at 3:00 p.m.  The tournament buy-in will be a $80.00 donation (plus a $20 entry fee) with $20.00 unlimited re-buys the first 90 minutes. In addition to individual entry, sponsored tables are also availabe for $600.00 and seat 10 people.

George Kozel, The Celebrity Poker Host, has rounded up the following celebrities who will be supporting the families of the fallen and be on hand to take pictures, sign autopraphs and mingle with their fans: David Arquette, Lou Diamond Phillips, Corey Feldman, Shannon Elizabeth,Samantha Phillips, Storage Wars’ Jarrod Schultz & Brandi Passante, Greg Evigan, Lorenzo Lamas, C. Thomas Howell, Tony Denison, Adrian Paul, Billy Burke, Carl Weathers, James Kyson, Omarosa,Rex Linn, Tom Malloy, Mimi Rogers, Benito Martinez, Brian Ronalds, Dean Ronalds, Bill Fabergakke, Martin Klebba, Lee Arenberg, Vince Lozano, and Joseph Reitman. In addition, Kozel promises that the following celebrity poker players will be showing off their skills: Men the Master, David Oppenheim, Jeff Madsen, and John Phan.

In the past, Fallen Heroes USA celebrity poker tournaments have been filled with a mixed bag of celebrities, poker enthusiasts, peace officers, fire fighters, and regular Joe’s who just want to give back to the families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our communities. The events have always been light-hearted and a great time has been enjoyed by all!

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A better USB survival tool

Some time ago Victorinox, the Swiss Army Knife people, in recognition that the USB flash drive is practically a survival tool, added a USB flash drive to their famous, portable multi-tool set. But that was then. Now it’s a new day for Victorinox as they launch an even better USB drive. Well actually, they launched drives at CES 2011. One of these is the Victorinox SSD which offers a terabyte of storage capacity, enough to hold 220 million pages of text or almost two years worth of uninterrupted music. The other product is the Victorinox Slim, a USB drive with faster read/write speeds and enough bells and whistles to keep data secure and portable. And in recognition of today’s world, the Victorinox SSD has separate housing for flight-friendly or regular use of its implement. The flight-friendly version is a knife-free body, all the better to get through airport security. We can’t wait to see what they’re planning next.

Many USB drives in one

Do you prefer to keep all of your files on a single large USB drive? Or are you the type to carry around several devices, each with its own set of relevant files. In the first case, losing the USB drive means a lot of data lost – though you should have also backed it up to the cloud or an external hard drive or somewhere else. In any case, the loss is not necessarily so great if you lose a USB drive with only a few files – unless of course, those were the most critical files. Well, you get the idea. But now brains are storming around with the idea that you could have one large USB drives that has several detachable parts, each one able to function as an individual USB drive. Got that? In any case, it is an intriguing concept where you’ll be able to detach parts of a USB drive as needed. But since it’s only a concept, you can’t really use it just yet. This is why you’ll probably want to partition your drives with software instead.

This USB drive is a computer

Computing with a USB type device is now easier than ever thanks to the latest merger of USB connectivity with dual-core computing along the lines of the Samsung Galaxy tablet. Who would have guessed? The recently released technology is called “Cotton Candy,” due to its incredible lightness of being. It has a USB connector on one end and an HDMI jack on the other. In between it’s a 1.2 GHz computer complete with a MicroSD slot. Developers of the USB device call it “any screen computing.” Any laptop, TV set or phone can essentially be turned into a computer terminal once the USB device is connected to it. And it can deliver 1080p video. The Cotton Candy runs on the Android operating system. FXI Technologies, the Norwegian company behind the device says with this device, it has turned computing upside down, delivering the power of a PC to any screen. Okay, so when you actually give this some thought, you realize it’s not really a USB drive in the traditional sense of the word, but hey, it’s still a pretty cool thing. And we like that.

The Bible on a USB drive

In the beginning the Word was probably written in stone or on scrolls or both until Gutenberg came along with moveable type and produced the Bible as the first printed book in 1455. Now the Bible is more portable than ever thanks to a coded version that can be loaded on to a USB flash drive. Download it for free and put it on your own USB drive or make a donation to the people who programmed the more than 20,000 lines of code and they will send you a preloaded USB drive with the Bible. Among the best features of the digital version of the Bible is the ability to quickly search for verses or topics of interest. Whether on a USB drive or on CD or other drives, you can also customize the display text among other things such as cross referencing and highlighting. Whether you’re interested in the preloaded USB Bible or downloading it onto your personalized USB drive, go to www.theword.net for more details.

Word processing on a USB drive

If you’re among the multitude of USB flash drive fans, you’re a fan of portability. Among the most useful portable apps out there in the apposphere is AbiWord Portable. This portable version of the open source AbiWord word processing software is ready travel the world in your pocket on a USB drive. Place it on a USB flash drive or other portable media and you’ll be able to use it on any computer without leaving digital footprints behind. Fans of AbiWord compare it favorably to other widely used brands of word processing software. It has grammar and spell checker along with mail merge and an assortment of handy formatting options. From bullets to lists to tables, images and endnotes, you never need to feel deprived of a professional looking document while using AbiWord Portable. And for you polyglots and hyper-polyglots, AbiWord is compatible with other languages – 30 language dictionaries and counting. But if you only use one language, you can remove the others and save space on your USB drive. As with all other portable apps, when you’re done processing your words, close down the application and wait for the signal to safely remove your USB drive.

A USB connection for iPad

For all who have ever wished for a USB connection to their iPad or other iDevice, there is good news. And no, there isn’t a new generation of these devices with a USB port. Although, that would certainly be nice. The best hope for connecting via USB to an iPad is the i-FlashDrive. The i-FlasDrive is actually a dongle with a USB connector on one side and an Apple connector on the other end. This device is thought to be the first two-way communication device for the iPhone or iPad. Of course you’ll need to download an app to do it, but it’s a free app. With the i-FlashDrive you can send and receive photos, music and other files. The USB flash drive storage capacity runs from 8GB up to 32GB but you’ll have to pay nearly $100 for the 8GB and it goes up from there. On the upside, if it’s options you’re after, now you have one. Well you can pre-order one.

Your life, your USB, urDrive

As consumer computing continues to evolve, the USB drive continues to evolve with it. News from Kingston Digital says they have new software for USB drives that makes portable computing that much easier. With it the USB drive more “interactive.” Before now, conventional wisdom may have suggested that the USB flash drive is a passive storage device, enabling users to carry files from one computer to the other with ease. Obviously, this can still be done. But now with urDrive the USB drive can be more active and engaged. It includes a built-in picture viewer and MP3 player. There’s also the built-in Web browser and Norton safety software. Listen to music, view photos, browse safely and boot-up from anywhere. Add to that access to games from EA and PopCap along with parental controls and what else could even begin to want? Well, there’s more. With this, you also get to store your bookmarks, browsing history and settings on the drive. Ah the places you could go.

A USB drive for your blood drive

They may be red all over, with packaging that looks like a blood donor bag, but no real blood was shed in the making of these USB drives. None other than the Red Cross has taken to being creative with USB flash drives. In an effort to educate college students on the need for and benefits of blood donation, the Red Cross is distributing the previously described USB drives, mainly on college campuses. The 2 GB promotional USB drives are preloaded with a promotional video about the path of blood from donor to recipient. It’s not a huge amount of storage in the big scheme of USB devices, but then again, the average college student paper is unlikely to be that large anyway. We envision the next iteration of this might be a syringe USB drive for drawing the blood. Possibilities.

The invisible USB device

On the one hand USB flash drives of all shapes, sizes and capacities continue to dominate the world of computing. Yes, we get that there’s the cloud but, quick, look around and there’s sure to be a USB drive in the vicinity. On the other hand, the popularity of these drives has led to ongoing concerns about USB security. There is much hacking going on, after all. And as we have noted before every action has an equal an opposite reaction, in which case, there is an equally fervent move to find more and better security for USB drives.  Now along comes the Unisys Stealth Solution for Secure Virtual Terminal (SSVT). Reports indicate that it is “a secure solution residing on a federal government-certified USB device to help ensure that a mobile user’s data is secure and readily available to those authorized to view it.” In short, this drive can go into stealth mod where it is invisible to unauthorized eyes. One would guess that unauthorized eyes everywhere are stealthily devising schemes to invade the stealthy USB device.