General Discussion

I've had a Lexar 128 MB Jump Drive Sport for about two years now, but I never got much use out of it until I found this site. Now I'm finding that 128 MB just ins't enough for my apps and all my files.

While browsing eBay, I noticed that there are several "no name" brands of thumb drives being sold for next to nothing. Has anyone ever used a no-name brand? Are they all the same, or is it worth paying more for a brand name?

Another nice app. Check it out
http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php

Is a secure delete utility really necessary for a flsh drive? I understand that the nature of flash drive is using solid state RAM as a storage medium and using on or off. I also know that on magnetic media there is always a trace left behind of anything because of the way the technology works.

Is it posible to have a portable codec pack? like xvid, divx, real, quicktime.
If you bring your movie-dvd to somebody's home, or want to see some short movies on net, that's a problem without correct codec.

Would anyone be able to tell me why I might want to use AbiWord in place of Open Office Writer? I already have open office installed on my thunbdrive and do not have any storage space issues.

Hi, I'm getting my first USB drive and will be running firefox and thunderbird from it while traveling this summer. I am still trying to get my head around using apps from a USB drive though. Is it possible to run any program from a jump drive? Or only apps that are specially programmed? In any case, is there a good FAQ anywhere that I might have missed?

What I am really curious about is a program I use called Wikipad. I know there are wikis like tiddlywiki I could use instead that would probably work on the portable firefox app. Is there a reason I couldn't use this Wikipad program off of a USB drive? Thanks, just a little confused.

Is it possible to make one of the desktop searches such as Google or Yahoo portable?

What would defragmentation do to a portable drive? I want PFF to be faster, but I don't want to risk hurting the USB drive.

Check this portable file manager out. I haven't tried yet. Just let you know.
http://www.xyplorer.com/

Below is what posted on the download page.

The installation of XYplorer totals to about 1.7 MB. No further files are added anywhere to your system, and nothing will be put into the registry but uninstall information. Also, running the program does not change your system or registry. XYplorer can be completely removed by running the included uninstaller, or by simply deleting the install directory.

On the latest GeekBrief TV episode (#27), PortableApps is quickly mentioned. They talk about an external harddrive and "heading over to PortableApps" and putting Thunderbird and Firefox on it. They bring it up about three quarters of the way through.

I thought it was pretty interesting. You can download the episode here.