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Friday, March 9, 2007
Flash drives with U3 smart technology let you bring some applications along with you where ever there is a USB port on a Windows machine; however, it won’t fully replicate your desktop. You need literally to just bring your hard drive with you to make that happen. Enter MojoPac. It in fact does just that in the form of any USB device such as your iPod. Since you can purchase an iPod with 80 GB of hard drive space, you could potentially bring your entire computer with you every where you go!
The folks at RingCube Technologies, Inc. have created an ingenious bit of software that installs on your iPod (or any other USB device) that then loads your desktop and your programs onto the host device. Not to worry, if you’re using this at work, as the hosts desktop can easily be brought up with a click of a button. Nothing changes on the host other than a new row of icons on the top of the screen. Clicking another button brings up your personal environment. Your programs, your desktop, your screen saver, your stuff. Anything that installs on Windows XP will install on MojoPac. Unlike U3, applications do not have to be specially brewed to work with MojoPac!
For $49.99 for a single license, this is really a great deal for the ability to bring your entire desktop with you. If you’re not fully convinced, then download the trial and see for yourself just how cool this really is.
March 12th, 2007 at 11:23
requests to the vendor (ringcube) for a mac version has basically been ignored …
they have had 6 months to get this going with zero results …
not a promising sign about the engineering skills!
which is extra bad for mac users because the ‘portable home directory’ concept was supposed to have been in the Tiger featrure set but was dropped by apple!
….. and it’s status in leopard is still MIA unless it is one of the ’secrets’ that steve jobs **promised** would make leopard sizzle (so far, there aint much to write ‘home’ about! as it were).
in the mac case there are special considerations for the use of an ipod as home directory … like Netboot, Rendezvous (zeroconfig), iSync, dotMac etc etc
but MOST GLARINGLY absent is the explanation of how the HEAT issue is addressed when an ipod is used as a mass storage device — when i use a 1G firewiire ipod as a /bootable/ device (for troubleshooting), theat baby is almost glowing red-hot! (yes, bootable is clearly different than a user directory).
it is so sad that mac users must surrender their hopes to (windows!) third-parties in order to get back all the fit & finish that apple used to be famous for but which it seems incapable of maintaining anymore! (recall: the loss usb bootability on ppc os/x; or the loss of of our sweet, sweet bootable RAM-discs as a side-effect of the otherwise slick change from old-world ROM ofw).
it would be really _USEFUL_ if web sites would EXPLICITLY incorporate mac status as part of their style guides / check list when otherwise recycling press releases as ‘news’ …. by this i mean haveing a (cusyomizeable) template that is automatically emailed back to every PR announcement so that all the MISSING details can be simply & quickly restored in the final blurb published on the web site … this suggestion goes betong just the mac issue!
September 6th, 2007 at 15:30
It would be nice if this software worked with Macs. But you have to give MojoPac their props! This is a cool virtualization software application!