Comments on: Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/ Freelance Advice and Freelance Jobs Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:17:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tiny USB Office - Blog Archive - Four Island http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-30904 Tiny USB Office - Blog Archive - Four Island Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:49:49 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-30904 [...] You Blog. A link on this article led me to Freelanch Switch, where I found a great article about how to get the most out of your memory stick. On this article, I found a link to a wonderful mini-suite called Tiny USB Office. Tiny USB Office [...] [...] You Blog. A link on this article led me to Freelanch Switch, where I found a great article about how to get the most out of your memory stick. On this article, I found a link to a wonderful mini-suite called Tiny USB Office. Tiny USB Office [...]

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]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Clearing the Cache - The How & Where Edition « http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-26967 WebWorkerDaily » Archive Clearing the Cache - The How & Where Edition « Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:04:05 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-26967 [...] Switch tells us how to Get the Most out of our ubiquitous thumb [...] [...] Switch tells us how to Get the Most out of our ubiquitous thumb [...]

]]> By: Strumenti essenziali da installare sulla chiave USB | FotografieDigitali http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-23898 Strumenti essenziali da installare sulla chiave USB | FotografieDigitali Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:25:43 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-23898 [...] [via Freelance Switch] [...] [...] [via Freelance Switch] [...]

]]> By: Weekly Link Post 46 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-23634 Weekly Link Post 46 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:50:34 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-23634 [...] Found a great article on FreelanceSwitch that lists some Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive. [...] [...] Found a great article on FreelanceSwitch that lists some Killer Tools to Get The Most Out of Your USB Thumb Drive. [...]

]]> By: Laurie http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-23534 Laurie Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:18:35 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-23534 What a wonderful and helpful article - thanks so much!! What a wonderful and helpful article – thanks so much!!

]]> By: Mark http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/#comment-23507 Mark Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:44:14 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/?p=1005#comment-23507 Great article, but I prefer my trusty laptop, and my smartphone for e-mail on the go. For everything else, I just use a VPN and Dynamic DNS so I can always access my home network whenever and where ever I am. I can access all my documents and my invoicing application remotely, and also print to my home printer remotely. I find that VPNing into my home network is so much more convenient than using web apps or flashdrives, since just about every PC has a PPTP VPN client, and Remote Desktop, even XP Home Edition; so don't really need to carry around anything. Remote Desktop or VNC Viewer solves pretty much all of the problems in the article as far as portable apps go, and when done inside a VPN tunnel, the encryption risks are also solved. One problem with my solution is that when you only have one router as the backbone of your productivity, if it fails, you are SCREWED. Great article, but I prefer my trusty laptop, and my smartphone for e-mail on the go. For everything else, I just use a VPN and Dynamic DNS so I can always access my home network whenever and where ever I am. I can access all my documents and my invoicing application remotely, and also print to my home printer remotely.

I find that VPNing into my home network is so much more convenient than using web apps or flashdrives, since just about every PC has a PPTP VPN client, and Remote Desktop, even XP Home Edition; so don’t really need to carry around anything.

Remote Desktop or VNC Viewer solves pretty much all of the problems in the article as far as portable apps go, and when done inside a VPN tunnel, the encryption risks are also solved.

One problem with my solution is that when you only have one router as the backbone of your productivity, if it fails, you are SCREWED.

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