Category Archives: USB

Portable apps

Posted on Friday, 3rd July, 2009 | Leave a comment

Since the world is getting mobile and hardware is available everywhere, but we try to have similar UI at work, home, and elsewhere, we have the portable apps come over to rescue us. Below is a compiled list of the apps available

from portableapps.com

xampp apache, mysql, php, phpmyadmin all in one

notepad++

nv web editor
kompozer

gimp image editing

cornice image viewing

firefox

amsn messengers
miranda
pidgin

winwget downloader
filezilla
fireftp
winscp

thunderbird email client

putty telnet and ssh client

audacity audio editing
bonkenc

dvdstyler cd dvd burning
infrarecorder

coolplayer media players
mplayer
vlc

virtualdub video editors

openoffice office suite

sumatra odf reader

speedcrunch calc

gnucash accounting tool

pdftk pdf maker

mac.on.stick mac OS classic 7 portable

clamwin antivirus

commandprompt customizable command prompt

javaportable

jkdefrag disk defragmentation tool

lightscreen screenshot tool

windirstat disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool

winmerge file comparison and merging

keepass password manager

toucan backup tool

from http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/

abiword
foxit pdf reader
sunbird
gdisk
gaim
miranda IM
adium
newspeak IRC client
skype

xnview
inkscape
irfanview

opera
utorrent
trayurl

7zip
restoration file recovery tool
yamipod ipod manager
SIW system diagnosis
cpuz cpu diagnosis

portable windows xp http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-pocket,1113.html

more at

http://www.portablefreeware.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_software

virtua win http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1377

virtual desktop creator

http://www.pendriveapps.com/

http://johnhaller.com/jh/

http://portableapps4uusbstick.blogspot.com/

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Miniature USB drive

Posted on Thursday, 23rd April, 2009 | Leave a comment


Some casual surfing landed me up on EagleTec’s website which has a miniature flash drive so small you would think it is only the cap of the drive.

And the size is 4gigs. Perfect raw material for a spy, hehe. And here is a list of the specs:

- USB 2.0 High speed data transfer
- Compatiable with USB1.1 & 2.0
- Speed：Read: 15MB/sec ; Write: 6MB/ sec
- Password protection (Optional download by user)
- Support Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OSX (10.2 or above)
- Dimension: 19.4 x 15.4 x 6mm
- Weight: Approx. 2.5g
- 10 years Warranty
- Patent design register：USA：US6148354, Taiwan：1288315

a bit costly, but I think its worth it. I wonder whether it supports linux, guess it should. Adding to my wishlists. And waiting till they support USB 3 ;)

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Posted in computers, linux, nano, storage, USB

USB 3.0 is on the edge.

Posted on Saturday, 7th February, 2009 | Leave a comment

With the official launch [read industry deployment] of USB 3.0 slated to be in 2010, I guess its very nascent to talk of it now. So we will be very brief.

The speed rise is expected to be 10 fold, from 480 MBps in usb 2.0 to 5 GBps in USB 3.0. But as usual, that’s the theoretical wire speed. Any ways I suppose the rise in practical transfers would be 8-10x. The hosts for USB 3.0 are xHci, unlike ohci and ehci of usb 2.0 The good part is that it is backwards compatible as far as cabling and device to port compatability is concerned. Which means USB 2.0 devices will work on USB 3.0 hosts and vice versa, in either case it would run at speed of USB 2.0.

Windows support for USB 3.0 is supposed to be initiated from Windows 7 onwards, and for linux as usual, a kernel upgrade in times to come will hit the nail on the head.

Now here starts my imagination : what devices can we expect on USB 3.0?
High speed portable storage devices [could probably beat eSata which runs at 3.2 GBps] , hi resolution HD vid cameras etc…

For detailed information you can see this

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Posted in computers, linux, USB, USB 3, windows