New way to Distribute Software...

Disclaimer: I got these for free to try out, although I'll be giving away both things at the Gnomedex conference in June. The iPod player I got before I set my policy of not accepting free stuff. The U3 drive I got because I didn't have time to sit through Nathan's demo and wanted to try it out. When I received them I made no promises to them about the coverage I would give them, or even IF there would be coverage coming. If I ever have a conflict of interest, I will disclose that to my readers. +++++ U3, shows me a new kind of USB Thumb Drive. He had one loaded up, gave it to me, and said "try this out." I'm playing with it now. It's a 1GB flash memory drive that plugs into my USB port. But it isn't a normal memory key. When you plug it in it automatically adds a new menu in the system tray. That pulls up a ton of software that Nathan put on my key for me. Turns out it fools my PC into thinking it's a CD-ROM drive that auto starts. This is a radical way to distribute test software. Why? Cause I unplug my key and any software I run disappears along with it (and any traces, including any temp files I've downloaded - I got the Maxthon browser on the key, for instance. As soon as I unplug it everything goes away, even registry entries). Whoa. Maryam has an iPod Nano, so back when I was at CES, when I saw Gnomedex. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer