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Put Your USB Drive To Work: 5 Strategies For Going Mobile: Page 2 of 22

  • How to run a standalone operating system from a USB drive.
  • How to maintain a standalone (and secure) password repository
  • How to synchronize data between two or more computers
  • How to encrypt your data so that it's safe to carry it around with you.

The vast majority of the material described here is for Windows -- the PortableApps suite, for instance, is a Windows-only item at this point. Some individual programs do exist in Linux incarnations, though -- TrueCrypt, for instance, and KeePass has been unofficially translated into Linux and MacOS editions (as well as a U3 device edition). Check the respective Web sites of each application for what versions are available, as they may change over time.