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• Flashy: New mimobots Bring Some Friends of the Happy Tree Variety

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Flashy, Happy Tree Friends, Mimobots, Pcs, Peripherals, Storage, Thumb Drives, Usb Flash Drives

  they're just regular USB drives, but I dig the whole mimobot concept anyway because I have a soft spot for overpriced art toys. While the guts haven't changed since the last update (1, 2, or 4GB sizes, for $50, $70 and $110, respectively), mimoco just dropped 15 new designs. The kickers are probably the Happy Tree Friends series, which is

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• Mimoco reveals Halo Mimobot flash drives

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Gaming, Halo, Halo 3, Halo3, Microsoft, Mimobot, Mimoco, Thumb Drives, Thumbdrives, Usb Drives, Usbdrives, Video Games, Videogames, Xbox 360, Xbox360

  reveals Halo Mimobot flash drives Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Get It Done on the Go with Floppy Office [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: November 15, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Email, Featured Windows Download, Office, Portable Applications, Spreadsheets, Thumb Drives, Word Processors

  Windows only: Thumb drive application packages like the Portable Apps Suite are great for taking your full-featured programs wherever you go, but those with smaller drives or working on slower computers might feel overwhelmed. Enter Floppy Office, a package smaller than 2 MB that contains a rich text editor, POP/IMAP email client, PDF creator,

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• TwinMOS USB Drive Keeps You Amused With Mirrors and Flashing Lights [Flash Drives]

  Published: November 16, 2007, 7:15 pm

  Tags: Flash Drives, Led, Memory, Mirror, Storage, Thumb Drives, Twinmos, Usb

  If you are the type that is captivated by small shiny objects, flashing lights and your own reflection, you will love this TwinMOS USB Drive with its mirrored surface and 6 colorful LED indicators. It also features a 4GB capacity, a sliding USB connector and cross-platform support. No pricing or availability information has been announced. [Aving

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• Sony Ericsson Phone Concept With Thumb Drives

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Technology News, General, Images, Mobile News, Daily Update, Phone, Sony Ericsson, Thumb Drives

  YankoDesign shows us the new Sony Ericsson phones concept that features a full-sized USB port, allowing users to plug in 8GB+ thumb drives for extra storage. (more…) Gadgets, General, Images, Mobile News, Phone, Sony Ericsson, Technology News, Thumb Drives

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• Track Your USB Devices with iHound [Theft]

  Published: November 27, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Cameras, Mp3 Players, Portable, Portable Applications, Theft, Thumb Drives, Usb Drive

  Windows only: USB thumb drives, memory cards and MP3 players are easy to take with you—and easy to misplace. Portable application iHound aims to make it easy to locate your items and report their theft if they've fallen into the wrong hands. The program places a small "MyPasswords" file that looks like a text document in a device's root

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• Give the Gift of Free Software [Gift Giving]

  Published: November 29, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Flash Drive, Gift Giving, Holidays, Thumb Drives

  Just grab a cheap USB thumb drive (you can find a 1GB drive for as little as 10 bucks these days), head somewhere like PortableApps, and grab some free portable software. Alternately, if you really wanted to go above and beyond, you could build a full PC on a stick. Not only might it make the perfect gift for a friend in need of some

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• M++CARD Combines a Business Card With USB Storage [Memory]

  Published: December 11, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Business Cards, Concept, Design, Flash, Flash Drives, M Card, Memory, Thumb Drives, Usb

  your information on a thumb drive doesn't count). At the very least, this concept piece from designer Abhinav Dapke offers something approaching a solution. Basically a flap on the rear of the card can be used to attach different memory sizes, and a pair of slits can be used for the USB adapter. To be honest, it doesn't amount to much

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• The Buffalo TurboUSB Smokes All That Dare to Cross Its Path...Or So They Say [Flash Drives]

  Published: December 12, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Buffalo, Flash Drives, Shd U32gs, Thumb Drives, Turbousb, Usb

  The new TurboUSB from Buffalo is being hyped as the fastest flash drive on the market by a whopping 20% margin. That kind of speed would certainly be useful if you are planning on transferring data approaching its 32GB storage capacity. Unfortunately, claims like that don't amount to anything more than big talk and Buffalo exec chest-bumping until

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• Do You Thumb Drive On-the-Go? [Reader Poll]

  Published: February 26, 2008, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Reader Poll, Thumb Drives, Usb Drive

  you need on your USB thumb drive. We've covered most of the post's suggestions before, whether we were showing you how to carry your life on a thumb drive or rounding up the top 10 thumb drive tricks, so with the wealth of options out there for taking that thumb drive to it's limits, I'm wondering: Gawker Media polls require Javascript;

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• Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive [Linux On A Stick]

  Published: May 16, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Feature, Fedora, Linux, Linux On A Stick, Open Sourcery, Operating Systems, Portable Applications, Thumb Drive, Thumb Drives, Top, Usb Drive, Windows

  desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched, and any files you create or settings you tweak remain in place the next time you boot up. After the jump, let's create a fully-functional desktop-to-go using a simple

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• Run the Ultimate Boot CD from Your Thumb Drive [How To]

  Published: May 15, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: How To, System Recovery, Thumb Drives, Utilities

  tool, directly to your thumb drive so you can carry your emergency recovery toolbox in your pocket. We mentioned Ultimate Boot CD's thumb drive-ability when we highlighted UBCD as one of the top 10 free system recovery tools, but Pen Drive Linux steps through the process and includes links to all the files you'll need to download to set it

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• Desk Drive Creates Desktop Shortcuts to Your Removable Media [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: May 25, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Cds, Downloads, Dvds, Featured Windows Download, Shortcuts, Thumb Drives, Usb Drives, Windows

  a new CD, DVD, or thumb drive—then automatically creates a desktop shortcut pointing to your newly mounted media. Disabling autoplay is safer and less annoying than leaving it enabled, but that means you have to open up My Computer every time you plug in a thumb drive or insert a new disc. Desk Drive gives you quick and easy

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• Run Xbox Media Center from a USB Drive [XBox Media Center]

  Published: June 6, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Feature, Gizmodo, Media Center, Media Server, Open Sourcery, Thumb Drive, Thumb Drives, Top, Usb Drive, Xbmc

  you can't lose. Larger drives, like an iPod or external hard drive, will give you more space to store your goods, but LiveXBMC can also save to any USB drive while it's running. PC that boots from USB—It doesn't much matter what OS it's running, but you can create the live USB stick from Windows or Linux. Decent video card,

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• Thumbscrew Makes Your USB Drive Read-Only [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: June 10, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Data, Downloads, Portable Applications, Thumb Drives, Usb Drives, Windows

  shortly after you plug your thumb drive into the infected machine—in the midst of your repair—your thumb drive is affected as well. Freeware portable application Thumbscrew protects your thumb drive from being written to so that your data remains safe no matter where it's plugged in. Even if you don't need it for PC repair purposes,

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