"What a boring day! I wish I had my PC with me!"
This is not unusual for someone who spends most of their boring days dodging snipers, racing against time, shooting down choppers and diving to the depths of the ocean in search of treasure.
One never knows how glued they are to the things that they do regularly till they decide to take a break. Like what happened with me, I decided to take a holiday away from my city for a couple of days.
Day 1 - Refreshingly Relaxed.
It was a welcome holiday till I realized that I left my PC back home. I spent the day looking at the ocean. That was totally relaxing. Took in the sights and scenes.
End of Day 1- Relaxed. A Different experience.
Day 2- Almost relaxed.
I woke up to the sound of the waves. Took a deep breathe, had a long walk by the beach, heavy breakfast and decided to take look at my mails. (How long can you stay away from the tools that rule). Asked the receptionist for a PC, logged and there they were a few mails that were high priority (obviously!). But, hey where were the attachments!?! More trouble - made a few futile calls to reach the people who could help me, only to hear that it's some configuration issue. Well, so much for working on a holiday. Good in a way. I get to actually relax. (if not for the high priority mails that was chewing on my brain).
End Of Day 2 - Tried to relax. Wish I had my PC with me. A bit of racing and dashing around would have eased my nerves.
Day 3- Yawn!!! What now?
I had stared at the ocean long enough. Drenched myself enough in the refreshing, salty waves. Looked at all the places there was to see and eaten at all the famous restaurants. Shopped till I dropped, literally. All I wanted was to get back some action in my life.
End of Day 3 - Realization. I am a hard core indoors person. All I need is my PC and a few action packed games. That is what I mean by a relaxing holiday.
Day 4- How I wish you were here (PC!)
All said and done, I was really missing my work, my mails and my racing games. That's when I began wishing that I had got that Flash drive. There was no way I was going to drag my PC along wherever I go but the best I could have done would have been getting myself a Flash Drive.
End of Day 4- Back on my flight home. First stop at the Airport terminal and out comes my credit card. Shop online for a cool flash drive.
Inseparable - my work, games and me.
Solution- a simple, small, handy flashy fun drive loaded with my favorite applications.
Now, that's the moral of the story :-)
Check out this list of my favorite portable games that can run from my I-Flapp flash drive:
Racer
GeneRally
Doom
Quake
Uno(!!!)
Mario brothers.
Will be adding more, as and when I test them.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
What are USB Flash Drives?
USB Flash drives are storage devices that function as a portable hard drive. They make use of flash memory and have an integrated USB interface. These devices are small, portable and can carry large amounts of data that can be re-used and rewritten.
Flash drives, although there are mainly claims to ownership, were first available in the market in 2000. In recent years, the capacity of flash drives has increased from 1 GB to 16 GB.
The important features of flash drives are:
• it stores data in flash memory (can be erased and rewritten)
• it is easy to carry around
• it makes use of usb drive (built-in in all computers)
• it does not need additional drivers to read/write (plug & play)
• it is getting smaller in size, larger in storage capacity
These features make them ideal for transporting personal/official data that a user may want to utilize at different locations. Scenarios where these devices are put to maximum usage are among students, business people and designers. If there is a need to access any data at a different location, one would normally mail it to themselves or use storage devices to transport the data. With the introduction of these tiny flash drives, one would not even notice the effort of carrying the data around.
With the rise in the different kinds of flash drives being sold in the market, innovation has become the key. With microprocessors getting smaller in size, flash drives are getting smaller and their storage capacity is increasing. It is surprising how such a small device can store such large amounts of data.
Check out SanDisk,I-Flapp, Trek, Lexar, Imation. Application software is integrated in these devices to ensure that they are not mere storage devices but actually external memory devices that can be used on any PC. It ensures that your data appears exactly as it would on your computer. It can store your mails in Outlook and the moment you plug the flash drive into the host's USB drive, the host system uses the data in flash drive and shows you your mail exactly the way it was configured on your PC. These portable apps are created by various companies like I-Flapp, which also ensures that none of your data is left on the host PC.And if you are working on a Greek PC, this app still shows your data & programs in English.
There are a lot of portable applications that can be downloaded and used on your flash drive. Applications such as MS office , including word, excel, etc and portable apps like Adobe Photoshop, games, editors, browsers, music players, antivirus software, instant messaging programs, ftp client , file sharing applications can be stored with ease.
When it comes to storing and using your data, it is not a hard choice to make; a Flash Drive gives you the best portability and utility.
However, there is NO escape from choosing which flash drive suits your style!!!
Flash drives, although there are mainly claims to ownership, were first available in the market in 2000. In recent years, the capacity of flash drives has increased from 1 GB to 16 GB.
The important features of flash drives are:
• it stores data in flash memory (can be erased and rewritten)
• it is easy to carry around
• it makes use of usb drive (built-in in all computers)
• it does not need additional drivers to read/write (plug & play)
• it is getting smaller in size, larger in storage capacity
These features make them ideal for transporting personal/official data that a user may want to utilize at different locations. Scenarios where these devices are put to maximum usage are among students, business people and designers. If there is a need to access any data at a different location, one would normally mail it to themselves or use storage devices to transport the data. With the introduction of these tiny flash drives, one would not even notice the effort of carrying the data around.
With the rise in the different kinds of flash drives being sold in the market, innovation has become the key. With microprocessors getting smaller in size, flash drives are getting smaller and their storage capacity is increasing. It is surprising how such a small device can store such large amounts of data.
Check out SanDisk,I-Flapp, Trek, Lexar, Imation. Application software is integrated in these devices to ensure that they are not mere storage devices but actually external memory devices that can be used on any PC. It ensures that your data appears exactly as it would on your computer. It can store your mails in Outlook and the moment you plug the flash drive into the host's USB drive, the host system uses the data in flash drive and shows you your mail exactly the way it was configured on your PC. These portable apps are created by various companies like I-Flapp, which also ensures that none of your data is left on the host PC.And if you are working on a Greek PC, this app still shows your data & programs in English.
There are a lot of portable applications that can be downloaded and used on your flash drive. Applications such as MS office , including word, excel, etc and portable apps like Adobe Photoshop, games, editors, browsers, music players, antivirus software, instant messaging programs, ftp client , file sharing applications can be stored with ease.
When it comes to storing and using your data, it is not a hard choice to make; a Flash Drive gives you the best portability and utility.
However, there is NO escape from choosing which flash drive suits your style!!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
