Sawed off USB key

Saturday 19 April 2008 @ 10:24 pm

WTF? Here’s a cool project I found that uses one of those slimline USB keys and a USB cable to make a cool and unique USB drive that you hopefully won’t lose.

USB drive

There’s no real point to doing this other than to kill some time customizing your computer gear. It certainly look unique. Here’s the link with the full set of instructions.

Tags: drive, key, USB



Portable Apps

Thursday 22 March 2007 @ 12:58 pm

With the advent of USB/pen drives, more and more people are using these devices for personal file and media storage - because it’s portable.

But there is more than you can use your USB drive for.

How many times have you used someone’s computer and found they don’t use the same applications as you do?

Here’s a solution - portable apps. A collection of cut down versions of popular programs that can be stored on your USB drive.

Check out this site: http://portableapps.com/

File sizes for the suite:

  • Base: 0.7MB (download), 1MB (installed)
  • Lite: 30.4MB (download), ~105MB (installed)
  • Standard: 89.5MB (download), ~260MB (installed)
Tags: apps, drive, pen, portable, USB