5 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
A USB drive is arguable one of the most essential tools for a business nomad, who needs to have all the important documents and papers in the form of soft copies. Today, those devices which were once used for being a self storage of documents play multiple roles. These include-
Running the systems.
Helping you to encrypt your work.
Recovering Windows.
There are ways to customize your USB to make it much more useful and ease to use, here five of them-
Your USB drive may be an old one but you can always make it look new and trendy. You can do this by customizing its icon and by making use of different software or Coverticon webapp. This gives your drive a distinctive and easily recognizable icon.
In the past, people have had problems with the privacy, tracking and security conditions when they were on a vacation but now, with technology advancement, you can avail of the above mentioned facilities by installing the DemocraKey Bundle. If you have this application, the following applications will be available too- encryption suite, email client, image editor, a browser and many more.
Keep a Linux OS system on your drive. These systems tend to be fast and can also be easily customized. They are also usually free.
The USB drive works as a very useful memory device in case your system does not have the sufficient space to store all the necessary applications and open source softwares like Chrome, Notepad++, Mozilla, etc.
You can synchronize the USB drive with your system and thus reduce your work load, making it easy for you to transfer files. For this, you must have tools like Microsoft’s SyncToy, SyncBac freeware or Dropbox.
USB drives are now commonly used mainly because they can easily be carried around and can be a good source of addition memory. These tips above are good ways to make them better and useful.