iamakey
May 29th, 2009, 3:20pm by Mike
If you had a 4 GB USB flash drive with you at all times, what would you put on it? I just got one of these and it’s very cool, but I’m not sure what I should put on it. Some ideas I’ve had:
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A file with return info, so if someone finds my keys, they can return them to me. It took me about 2 seconds to realize that I can’t put my address on there, however, since, duh, this mystery person will have my keys, and the last thing I want to do is tell them were to use the keys! Likewise, I can’t put my name. So the file tells the key-finder to “Call Mike D” and gives my phone number. I guess I’d have to go meet them somewhere to get the keys, or have them drop the keys off in some specified place…
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Portable versions of apps. A while ago, these were a hot topic on the blogs — carrying portable versions of apps with you, with all the settings, so that you could plug a flash drive into any computer and be chatting with your friends, surfing the web, sending email, etc with your apps and your settings. Clearly this is less of a big deal now that (a) most everything is on the web; (b) my phone has surrogates for most of these apps; and (c) I have my laptop with me a pretty high proportion of the time when I’d want to be web surfing, IM’ing, or using Skype. So I don’t know that that’s too useful these days.
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Simple file transfer to other people and computers. This is likely what I’ll end up using it for (e.g., moving a presentation to another person’s work computer, since they won’t have Dropbox and we don’t have a wireless network at work)
Any other great ideas? Should I think about encrypting things on it? If so, what’s the easiest way to do that?