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[26 Jun 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

The explosion of mobile devices has gone a really long way to freeing computer users from their desks, and letting them roam in the open, while still engaging and collaborating in many of the same ways they do in more traditional computer environments. Yet there are other ways as well by which you can take your work with you, while leaving your desktop computer or laptop at home. Portable apps are one such example.
This video covers portable apps, including what they are, how you install them, and …

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[17 May 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

Here’s a really interesting idea courtesy of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet (“How to … install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive“).  In the post he outlines the process of how you would go about preparing a USB flash drive to run Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
What this means is you’d have the ability to carry a portable operating system with you wherever you went.  All you’d need to use it is a physical computer to plug in to that would recognise the USB Flash drive and whose BIOS supported booting by …