Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

LifeHacker ^ | 10 July 2010 | Kevin Purdy

[ShadowAce]

I've also managed to save a script I've found on the net that will allow you to put several live distros on a single disc/USB drive and boot up to a menu so you can select which one to boot up.

Pretty cool

[ShadowAce]

[sauropod]

home

[CORedneck]

Have to file later....

One thing is there are "drives" that interface between IDE/SATA ports and a SD Chip that goes into cameras. I have picked up a simple 4 GB chip and used it with OpenBSD operating system. Boots up very fast !

[shorty_harris]

Since I discovered Dropbox, I find I don’t need a thumbdrive much anymore...

[texas booster]

A great post to go into my Favs.

Thanks!

[ctdonath2]

PortableApps rocks. I’m drifting all my PC stuff onto a USB memory. Between that, DropBox (folder that auto-mirrors contents to anywhere it’s installed including iPad), and my iPad, that leaves my notebook at home as just a media/iTunes host.

[LonePalm]

Ping for later.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Non-Sequitur]

Bump

[xone]

bttt

[Pontiac]

Later

[juggernaut]

Bump

[dfwright]

Very cool. Marking for later

[HangnJudge]

BTTT

[MrEdd]

You and I are polar opposits.

I keep my machines other than the one I freep from isolated from the internet as much as possible.

I absolutely never rely on the internet for long term storage.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Very cool....Thanks.

[grb]

ping for later

[conservativehusker]

save for later

[kevkrom]

I absolutely never rely on the internet for long term storage.

The beauty of Dropbox is that you don't have to. Yes, there's a copy stored on their servers, but it's best utility is to synchronize files between multiple computers. I have three computers running Dropbox, and (unless they're disconnected from the network), I can add/modify files on one of the machines and see the changes on the other ones.

The network storage is, to me, simply a side effect.

One thing I haven't tried yet, but is a feature, is sharing a folder within my Dropbox folder with other (specified) users for a collaborative project.

[Codeflier]

For Later.