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uSBuntu Live Creator makes portable Ubuntu installs a breeze
by Lee Mathews Jul 21st 2009 at 9:00AM
USB flash drives are great, because they're a lot more rugged and they can be reused again and again. They're also totally silent, something I can't say the same for the tiny blender of an optical drive inside my Toshiba laptop.
On to the good stuff! Blogger Kishan Bagaria shared an interesting utility called uSBuntu Live Creator which goes a step beyond apps like the Fedora LiveUSB Creator and UnetBootIn to provide a simple way to install Ubuntu in combination with portable VirtualBox.
The app also allows you create persistent storage on your flash drive. It's compatible with Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 as well as Linux Mint 6 Main and #! 8.10.02 Standard.
For a hassle-free way to cart around some of the most popular Linux distros in your pocket, this app is undeniably handy. It's a free download and runs on Windows.
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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techpops said 11:38AM on 7-21-2009
That's one brilliant little tool.
Godda love those Flash Drives, just wish choosing faster ones was easier. So many mediocre ones on the market and companies rarely list speeds.
I'd like to get my hands on the fastest 2gb Flash Drive that's easily available to me in the UK
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Ivan said 1:15PM on 7-21-2009
The drives that actually perform faster will post their speed specs because it is a good selling point. Usually if the speed is not posted, the drive will be slow. So if there isnt a posted speed, stay clear from them.