Sat 13 Oct 2007
Today I was a guest on Digital Nation Radio with Tim Taylor (WFLA 540 am at 2:00 pm EDT) and talked about the different portable computing options available now. There are some really cool things you can do with your iPod or USB flash drive these days!
My interest in this began about a year ago when Russ Licht gave me a secured (encrypted) USB flash drive that he configured with a suite of programs that ran from the flash drive. At the time he called this the Mobile Office Project, but later the name changed to MCX (Mobile ConneXion). Last month I delivered a batch of “MCX drives” to our volunteers in Central Asia.
Sound interesting?
Here is how you can make your own portable computing device.
October 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Last week I downloaded a GTD software, Accomplice, that gave me the option of downloading it to my thumb drive.
Have you started a thread about this on eMinistry?
October 14th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Nice article! I forwarded the information to several “uber-geek” friends to consider both for their offices and for their volunteer efforts at their churches. Imagine helping out an under-resourced single mom (stereotypical example, sorry…)by handing her a flash drive fully loaded and thus equipping her to use the library PCs in style.
I also imagine equipping road warriors with them so that (Lord forbid) if their laptop gets stolen (A) no sensitive data was on it and (B) they can go to where ever (local office, Internet cafe, etc.) and carry on. But the sensitive data not being lost, that’s the biggie. The company that I used to work at used “SafeBoot” on all of our laptops because of the need to protect sensitive data. I would have preferred your solution!
October 16th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Sus,
Accomplice looks like a promising option, and they have a version for U3. Cool.
http://www.accomplice.com/download.html