05 Ways To Get Creative With Your Little USB Drive
USB Drives are cheap and easy to handle, meant to store data, keep hidden files, load videos, song…and much more but there are more important and interesting things you can do with your USB drives. Here are 5 different ways how you could change the way you think about USBs.
1. Installing a Windows App Suite might be of help:
How often do you delete apps because you are short on memory? Now stop doing this, as we have the alternative. If you’re short on space for Windows, or you just like to keep certain apps with you on a separate disk, your USB drive can function as a full-fledged launcher. PortableApps offers no-install-needed versions of Firefox, Chrome, Pidgin, GIMP, Notepad++, and many other favourite bits of open source software. There are other suites out there, some indict of playing fast and loose with licenses and software property, but PortableApps remnants the most reliable and up-to-date collection of free.
2. Helps to Keep Linux OS Handy anytime, anywhere:
Linux systems on a USB are fast, free, and very customizable, and this is proved. Major Thumb drive systems, like Puppy Linux and Ubuntu flavors are the most famous among readers. Keeping that in mind, the uSbuntu or Unetbootin tools on Windows are most suitable for making read-only systems and Universal USB Installer for making a persistent system of any Linux OS on any drive.
3. Use your Drive to Self-Destruct in Emergencies:
With an USB Safeguard, you can make it so that moreover your entire drive requires an encryption drive, or just select files do. In more unique fashion, USB Safeguard can be set to wipe your files entirely if someone tries to access them without your password too many times. So you might relax while depending for security on your cheap USB.
4. Save Your Windows from crashing:
If you have Ubuntu system on your thumb drive, you’ve already got everything you need to fix a Windows system that just isn’t working. From an Ubuntu thumb drive, you can scan and fix viruses, recover files, analyze and clean up disk space, fix partitions, and recover lost Windows passwords. What more you will wish for?
5. Feel lucky to use Chrome OS right now:
As you already know, Google’s fast and light netbook operating system, Chrome OS, isn’t due out until late fall. But thumb drive owners can jump into an open-source build of the code so far. As explained by Gina, you can run a custom build of Chrome OS from Hexxeh from your thumb drive and try out Chrome as it stands today.
Additional Tip: If you have multiple USB drives, then just for convenience to be recognizable at a glance, you can give it a custom icon. So just keep a .ico file on the drive, which helps you to recognize your drive just at an eye.
