November 12th, 2004
What to put on a USB Drive?
Small usb thumbdrives are ubiquitous these days and are very handy for transferring pictures between computers regardless of hardware, operating system etc. But what else are they good for? Here’s a couple ideas for other things to put on them, drawn from this Engadget discussion thread…
Portable Firefox web browser
Portable Thunderbird email client
Trillian email client (how to install on a portable drive)
A complete Linux distro (complete with some applications & bootable off Windows to fit on a 128MB drive)
Update 21/03/06: Wikipedia now has a good list of applications that can be run on a USB key here
