In a previous posting you learned about Portable Apps for you USB drives. You should also know about Geek Menu and it’s ability for you to custom brand a menu for your Creative USB drives. Sourceforge provides additional apps and a customizable menu.
Free Open-Source on the fly encryption.
Main Features:
VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.
Active Media Products is making headlines with its new Aviator-2 External USB 3.0 SSD. This drive operates transfers at 10x times to USB 2.0 – 4.8 Gbits per second. And also making them effortlessly portable, they are merely 3″ x 5″.
The Aviator-2 can be purchased as an empty case for $34.95, while the 64GB version will cost $259.95 and the 128GB will be priced at $449.95.
According to Jerry Thomson, vice president of sales at Active Media Products, “These products effectively render external USB 2.0 hard drives obsolete since for a few dollars more you can plug a 2.5-inch hard drive into the Aviator-2 case and get up to 200% faster performance. Or the Aviator-2 bundled with our Predator SSD inside will blow away any hard drive with speeds above 150MB/sec”. Aviator-2 SSDs are available now through Amazon. Active Media Products also offers Atomix USB 3.0 PCIe and Express Card adapters to easily upgrade any desktop or laptop to USB 3.0.
MAC OS X portable applications packaged so you can carry around on any portable device taking your preferences with you.
Set to launch Monday March 1st, 2010, the company predicts this will be
the most talked about product since the flash drive was invented.
Infinitec, the Dubai based start-up is set to unveil the the worlds first Infinite USB Memory Device on March 1st, 2010. The companies website states that this product will not only give you infinite Gigabytes of Storage, it will also also allow you to stream media to any USB equipped DVD player, PS3, XBOX 360, HIFI, or Home Theatre system.
Look for a big splash in less than 24 hours, in the meantime …
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Turn your USB Drive into a portable virtual computer. Portable Apps provides a variety of free applications that are sure to turn your Creative USB drive into a useful and powerful device.
Go here to download the apps for free. They include:
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) originally banned USB drives and other removable media devices in November 2008, after a worm infiltrated Army networks. A variation of the worm, W32.SillyFDC, was targeting thumb drives and other removable media and spreading through military networks. To stop the infection, all removable storage devices — including USB drives, … READ MORE >>>
1,000,000 Yen, €7400, $10,000. No matter how you slice it, this cube-shaped luxury USB flash drive is going to set you back a whole heap of money. The Japanese company SolidAlliance created the Mnemosyne 16GB USB Cube. It was crafted by Italian designers Toshi Satoji and Katsuya Masaki. If you’re into the craze of designer technology, this toy is definitely top of the line.
The cube is actually a puzzle; it needs to be opened up piece by piece to get to the key. The name “Mnemosyne” actually comes from Greek mythology and means goddess of memory. Most 16GB USB flash drives are priced from $30 to $80. This is a little out of the typical price range I’d say. You’d think it was made of gold or something. Nope, alluminum. So what’s all the hype about? Not too sure honestly.
