Filed under: Security, Utilities, Hardware
Have your lost USB drive ask for help
[Via Street Tech]
usb drive posts
[Via Street Tech]
Filed under: Internet, Open Source
Portable Gaim: Take your IM settings and contacts with you
Portable apps are
really taking off. Portable Gaim is a version of
the Gaim multi-protocol IM client that you can install onto a USB drive. That means you can take all of your contact,
settings, and logs for AIM, MSN, Yahoo! IM, ICQ, and Jabber and keep them with you whether're on your own computer, a
friend's, or one in an Internet cafe. Currently Portable Gaim is based on Gaim 1.5 for Windows, but maybe if we keep
our fingers crossed we'll get a cross-platform version sometime soon.Lexar to bundle Google apps on USB flash drives
InformationWeek
is reporting that Lexar and Google have made a deal that will ship Google's apps, including Picasa, Google Desktop, and
Google Toolbar, on Lexar's USB flash
drives. The Google apps will be included on Lexar's JumpDrive product line. The article goes on to describe Lexar's
product VP Steffen Hellmold's vision to put users' an entire operating environment on USB drives, stating, "The
vision at some point in the future is to have a complete operating system on the USB flash drive that would be bootable
from the device," Hellmold said. "You could bring your computing environment with you -- your operating
system, data and applications." Will people actually use apps bundled on flash drives, or just delete them to free
up space? Is this the wave of the future, or a strategy doomed to fail?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
