Most web workers are carting around at least one USB key – and no wonder. For the price of a couple of cups of coffee, you can store a whole pile of data in your pocket in a form that doesn’t get smushed or mangled the way floppy disks used to (if you’re one of us dinosaurs who still remembers floppies). But what do you use it for?
- In our Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit we suggested antivirus and scanning apps, security tools, credit card numbers, download URLs and registration keys.
- Various branded solutions like the MedicTag put medical records on a USB key, but there seems to be no reason why you couldn’t do that yourself if you wanted to.
- There are also many ways to make a bootable USB key so you can have your own operating environment at any computer with a USB port.
Or, of course, you could just cart files back and forth from one computer to another. But what do you use your USB key for? We’d love to hear about any innovative ideas you’ve come up with. Or have you moved on from USB storage entirely, storing files on your phone or in “the cloud”? Tell us about it!
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