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12 Cool Things To Do With Your Thumb Drive

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The PortableApps collection of open source programs runs from any USB drive and comes with its own launcher and organizer.

The PortableApps collection of open source programs runs from any USB drive and comes with its own launcher and organizer.  A portable Opera browser fits on a thumb drive and leaves nothing behind on the host computer when shut down.  Puppy Linux is small enough to fit on a thumb drive, big enough to encompass most all of your daily work.  TrueCrypt's traveler mode puts all the binaries needed to mount the encrypted volume directly on the drive.  The portable version of Winamp can be paired up with a repository of music files to make it playable anywhere there's a PC.  BootIt is finicky, but when it works properly, it will mount a flash drive as a fixed drive.  Daily Cup of Tech's flash-drive recovery files allow a   Rohos hooks into the Windows logon system to let you replace or augment passwords with a USB key. 


The PortableApps collection of open source programs runs from any USB drive and comes with its own launcher and organizer.