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Entire USB Drive Sync Program

Submitted by tmm0f5 on May 1, 2006 - 12:44am

Hey All,

I finally got my WD 6gb Pocket Drive and absolutely love it. I love having an actual Email Client everywhere I go, rather than relying on webmail everywhere. The PFF is awesome.

However I am looking for a simple way to back up my USB drive on a near daily basis. Currently I've been simply copying the entire drive to one of my hard drives as a folder USB Backup each day, but the number of clicks, etc. is number.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also on a side note, I'm having problems with PFF and Profile Sync such that I setup PFF the way I want (bookmarks and all) but want it to sync with my newly installed Mozilla FF. But nothing happens after it says it updated. Any thoughts?

Is there this kind fo desktop program?

Submitted by cch on April 30, 2006 - 6:14am

I'm looking for a desktop program with some features, can anyone give me some suggestions?

Features:
1. Create a virtual desktop with wallpaper from flash drive.
2. Customizable favorite folders and shortcuts on desktop, including both relative and absolute path. Softwares like ms office which most people have can be run from the local computer.
3. Switch the local desktop and your desktop.
4. Customizable workarea. You can set some space for showing widgets, and maximized windows won't cover this space. DesktopCoral(http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/desktopcoral/index.html) does this, but only does this, too.

Prefered Flash Drive for Portable Apps

Submitted by wsm23 on April 28, 2006 - 1:47pm

I am looking to get a new flash drive. I am looking at least 1GB, but I am open to suggestions.

I am looking for:

1. Reliability
2. Speed
3. Portable App Friendliness (not U3)
4. Capacity
5. Value/Price

I currently own a Lexar 128mb Jumpdrive, and a Geeksquad 512mb U3 (came free with the new laptop I bought 3 months ago)

I am not thrilled with U3 because of the amnount of space it seems to take up on the drive. The U3 system and the profiles it creates take up far too much space.

Any suggestions?

Possible Forum Changes, Opinions Sought

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 27, 2006 - 2:18pm

Ok, it looks like Drupal 4.7 should be released soon. I've been waiting for it to do some of the changes to the site I'd been planning. I know we've discussed the whole threaded vs unthreaded thing in the forums. Unthreaded is more standard, and makes it easier to see what's new. Threaded makes it easy to see what's a reply to what. Both have advantages. Both have disadvantages. Some sites us unthreaded (most bulletin board and forum sites). Some use threaded (Slashdot and other slashcode-based sites, kuro5hin, etc).

I was actually thinking of splitting the difference... a la Digg... in terms of the way comments (aka responses to forum topics) are displayed. So, each of the top-level comments would be a reply to the original post... but each reply to those would just be an unthreaded list.

7-z portable?

Submitted by cch on April 26, 2006 - 12:32am

Well, I read many threads, but I didn't find anything with 7-z's portability.
Just want to know if it's portable, and where I can get a portable one if there is. Smile

By the way, can anyone tell me how to create a zip with 7-z?
The official site said it supports to pack a zip, but I still don't know how to do it after checking the whole program.

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