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I do most of my designwork at home and bring it with me next morning and load it onto my work computers some seven miles away. Down through the years I have used every imaginable removable device for this purpose, floppies, cd's etc. This weekend however I bought a 512 meg flash drive and I'm thrilled with its ease of use, speed and size for portability. I am one of the last to discover these gadgets or are any of you using them for similar uses. Curious to knoe your feelings
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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I'm pretty happy with my remote access via PCanywhere because I can not only send my completed work ahead of me to the office, but when working at home, I often think up other work I could move forward on, & need to go get the files from the office machine. Based on how much I feel like working when I finally drag myself out of the shop, If I had to plan ahead what I will work on, I would not bring any work home.
Those drives sound great though & I expect I will have to have one someday. I have a few Sony Vaio desktop computers & thought I'd get some memory stix, since I have the drives already, but they are too expensive, & not nearly as compatible (with other computers) as the USB flash drives.
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i just got a USB key flash drive, 256 K man its nice, FAST too. I use FTP to do most of my work but this key makes it easy to tote around to other computers too. nice
-------------------- Leaper of Tall buildings.. If you find my posts divisive or otherwise snarky please ignore them. If you do not know how then PM me about it and I will demonstrate. Posts: 5273 | From: Im a nowhere man | Registered: Jul 2001
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Where's Pat when you need him? He's developed this revolutionary pinhole-pounce idea. Who knows, If he and OP were to get together on this, they might come up with punch-card technology?
It could happen!
-------------------- Arthur Vanson Bucks Signs Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England arthur@buckssigns.co.uk -------------------- Posts: 805 | From: Chesham, Bucks, England | Registered: Mar 2002
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I use a Lexar JumpDrive Trio. It is a USB device simular to a thumb drive but excepts SD cards and Sony Memory Sticks. It is also great as I use a Pocket PC that uses a SD card, and hope to get a camera that also uses the SD card.
-------------------- Raymond Quick Ye Thicker Than Thou Sign and Repair Shoppe Olympic College, 1600 Chester Ave Bremerton, WA 98337 rquick@oc.ctc.edu Posts: 50 | From: Bremerton Washington | Registered: Jan 2002
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I just bought a SanDisk jump drive. Very cool. I can pop it into my Mac, then take the files to my PC. My Mac doesn't have a CD burner in it. I prefer burning CD's on the PC anyway because those jpg, eps, tiff, & AI files can be read on a MAc or a PC when I burn the CD on a PC.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5396 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Have had a 256 mb flash stick for about 3 or 4 months....awesome. It's like the size of a lipstick case (not that I use lipstick ) and you can save your files to it, stuff it in your pocket and take it anywhere.
Zip drives are history! Not everybody has a zip drive...but every computer has USB! Plus...no moving parts!
Enjoy it from day 1.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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i have the Creative Labs MUVO 128mb. it's a flash drive, mp3 player with display screen, and a recorder (records *.wav files). the size is close to a BiC lighter.
i also try to keep a few blank CDs in the truck in case i need to save something larger.
-------------------- Scott Pagan Admark Graphic Systems Admark Motorsports Graphics 9700 Metromont Ind Blvd Charlotte, NC 28269 www.admarkgraphics.com Posts: 325 | From: Charlotte, NC | Registered: Nov 2001
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) and you can save your files to it, stuff it in your pocket and take it anywhere.
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