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One Man’s Weekly Links - October 19, 2007

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Your Computer on a USB Key

USB DriveSince the advent of the USB thumb drive, there has been a growing trend that one should be able to take all of one’s own applications with them in their pocket and just plug into any available PC to use your programs.

Since USB memory devices have recently become cheap, fast and big many developers are stepping up the work on portable applications in order to bring that dream to fruition.

Portable AppsThe best site currently archiving these portable applications is… you guessed it, PortableApps.com.
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Pandora Internet RadioIt isn’t often that you’ll hear me calling something “world changing”, but I think this could be one of those times. TIME Magazine rated Pandora.com one of the 50 coolest Web sites, and I was a bit surprised because I’m pretty familiar with all of the good ones, but this one swept me off my feet!

Pandora.com is, for lack of a better description, your own personal streaming Internet radio station. You’ve got two different options. Just visit the site and type in an artist’s name and hear some music, or create a Login and you can save your favorites and access them from any computer, anywhere! Either way you can teach the service which songs you like or don’t like.
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