From Sociology to Portable Apps Software

Recently I stepped into the University to register for my Phd in Sociology. While I was around I noticed life had undergone a phenomenal change. In our times we carried books, today that seemed to have been replaced by laptops.

I tried making small conversation with a group of fellowship students. Strolling around the campus, I found a student doing Research in Sociology. I decided to sound off my direction of research. With his permission I borrowed his laptop and plugged in the App-D-enabled iPod to his USB port. This new acquaintance was quite disillusioned to see his laptop being taken over and his complete desktop change. Here I was using his system and accessing my files, IM lists browser preferences, across various types of software.

He was no more paying attention to me. He was preoccupied trying to comprehend how this whole thing was possible. By this time a few of his collegemates gathered around. It was quite evident this portable apps software had caught their interest. Being research students, they could be working from a friend’s room, a computer lab, or even a library and information collected can be in various formats. This confines them to the laptop.

Even before I realized, I was giving them a demo. I started with the storage capacity required and went on to how it can be installed into any USB storage device along with a variety of applications. I told them it can be plugged into any desktop or notebook computer with USB 2.0 port. I also had to be specific and mention that the Apps-D can run on an iPod, Video iPod, iPod Nano and iPod mini. Many of them were eager to know if they would be left behind since they do not have iPods. There was a sigh of relief when I informed them that a top-tier USB external hard drive and USB Flash drive would work. To get optimum Apps-D experience an USB 2.0 with a minimum storage of 128 MB is ideal. So it was clear that storage is totally dependant on the application and data installed. Another advantage I shared with them was Apps-D runs on Windows 2000/ XP home and Professional/2000 & 2003 server. In fact, it can work on Window Vista.

One smart Alec felt it was unsafe and assumed it would leave traces on the host computer. To prove him wrong, I closed the applications and unplugged my iPod and asked him to track my files. After a vigorous search he gave up - no trace of my work at all. Pompous as ever, I explained nothing remains on the host machine, nor does it cache private information in the host's browser history.

After exchanging a few numbers, thought that was a fairly decent amount of campaigning done for my favorite Apps-D device - i-flapp. Now I was contemplating a certain percentage from i-flapp for all the free publicity that I had created.