A few years ago I purchased a G3 Powerbook laptop. The laptop is all black and has a white apple on its back that lights up. Make no mistake, I purchased this laptop because it was the same one Carrie had on “Sex In The City” and Felicity and Noel had on Felicity. A laptop of the stars, I purchased it a few years after its popularity on eBay for maybe $300 with the thought I could use it for writing while I was away from my desktop, and I would look fantastic doing it.
The computer is pretty old and I quickly realized lacked one very important piece: a disk drive. I can write all day long on that laptop but with no floppy drive, and no CD-R I have absolutely no way to get the information off of my computer. The computer does have a very old wi-fi card, and when I moved into my new apartment I discovered I could pick up the wi-fi signal from my neighbors apartment which solved the problem for the past year. Then this week my neighbor, and my wi-fi moved.
I write television show re-caps every night, which requires me to type in front of my television, and then have access to the internet to upload the recaps onto the site. With no internet, and no disk drive I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to pull this one off. Then it came to be USB Flash Drive.
If you want to transfer files from one computer to another then a USB Flash drive is an excellent choice. I went and purchased a small 32MB one for around $12. When you plug the flash drive into your computer you can use it just like you would another hard drive on your computer. I wrote my recap, saved it to the USB drive, then simply took the drive into my office and plugged it into my desktop. Voila! Instant access to the recap I wrote in my living room a few minutes earlier. USB Flash drives are great for transferring files from work to home, friends homes and anywhere else you may want to save something but can’t or don’t want to send it over the internet.
My new $12 flash drive has a keychain attachment which makes it easy to carry it with me where ever I go for easy file transfers on the fly.