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October 6, 2006

Simon Fodden

MojoPac

A company called MojoPac makes a program that will let you install practically any Windows application on a portable drive, such as your iPod or a USB flash drive or portable hard drive. You can then insert the drive into any computer running Windows XP and have your own applications and data available to you. When you're finished working, remove the drive and leave nothing on the host machine.

This has real possibilities for someone who travels and isn't always able to carry or connect a laptop, or someone who finds it more convenient to go from a home desktop machine to a work desktop machine using a tool that weighs essentially nothing, rather than a laptop. If there's a particular program that's needed to achieve results you want someone in the office to get, you can load up a flash drive with all the necessaries and give (or lend) it to them. A CD won't do that.

Take a look. If you come up with actual or potential uses that might interest Slawyers, let us know.

Simon Fodden is the founder of Slaw. He taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School for more than 30 years before he retired to focus on writing, publishing, and IT and law.
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  1. Simon C says:
    October 6, 2006 at 12:52 pm

    Subject of course to the terms of the software licence. Most permit non-simultaneous use on another machine.

  2. Evan VanDyk says:
    October 6, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    This can obviously be very useful for students, especially when libraries will sign out laptops to use at school (as is available at Osgoode). There is also a version of Firefox that gives you the same capability which I've already been using at school.

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