Use Your Dongle Like You Mean It! Top 10 USB thumb drive tips!

Is that a gigabyte in your pocket? Ha ha! Lifehacker one of our absolutely FAVORITE (love to Gina, ^5's to Adam and the whole crew!) blogs of all time runs a Top 10 series and this time around it's Top 10 USB thumb drive tricks. Let me tell you what...if you have a USB thumb drive and you AREN'T using at least one of these great ideas...well you're a schmuck! (Maybe not but they are cool apps.) I won't repost the Top 10 here on Yamagoo...click on the link and go to Lifehacker and check them out. You can download everything you need to make any of these tricks work right from the posts.
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A Potheads Best Friend The "Doorganizer"

Are you fucking kidding me! This may very well be the best thing to happen to Yamagooers since the gravity bong! As we all know smoking herb can make you a little umm....short term memory challenged. So in the spirit of the simplest ideas are the best the folks at The Container Store introduce us to The Doorganizer©....

The Doorganizer© is a hanging reminder and organizer for the doorknob. Ideal for keys, eyeglasses, cell phones, palm-held devices, music players, even envelopes or newspapers fit into the strip at the back!

It looks pretty freekin sweet and at only $15 it could stop me from forgetting every damn thing I was supposed to take with me when I left!

This came to us from the brilliant minds and sharp eyes of Lifehacker - Thanks Gina!

Searching YouTube Videos

We watch alot of YouTube videos around here. Some are absolutely horrible and some are abso-fuckin-lutely horrible. Finding the video you are really looking for can be a real pain in the ass. Since every 12 year old schmuck in the universe has figured out that adding a bunch of porn-spam-tags to the description of his nose picking Vlog will earn him views (even if there's no real traffic there) it can be hard to search out content you'd really want to watch. Enter PodZinger, the site that enables keyword searches within audio and video podcasts, now lets you search inside YouTube videos as well. This came to us in the GReader from Lifehacker.....

Now besides simply searching on the metadata of the video files, you can search for terms that are actually mentioned inside the audio, allowing for a greater likelihood you will find relevant material.

I don't have any clue yet if the product really works but i can tell you this...if the gang at Lifehacker put it up it ain't too shabby. They rarely miss. So if you listen to lots of Podcasts, or you're just wondering if there are YouTube videos out there that mention you by name, give PodZinger a try and see what's out there.

Make MP3's from your Cassettes, PC on a Stick and more!

from Lifehacker one of DJ J's all-time favorite blogs!

I love the Lifehacker blog! It is always full of useful stuff and today is no different. There were two REALLY good posts today and I wanted to share the love.

MP3's from Cassettes

I get asked all the time if i can transfer tapes to cd. Some material, particularly recordings of live events, concerts, etc. is just not available in the digital format. Lifehacker, One of my favorite blogs in the universe has posted easy to follow instructions for transferring your tapes into the digital realm. This doesn't do anything to help clean the tapes up. They will still have the same crappy tape sound that they always did, but you can put your brothers garage band recording of "Stairway to Heaven" on your iPod. Rock on Bro...Rock on!

PC on a Stick

Both DJGreggieC and I carry virtual desktops around with us on flash drives. There are tons of reasons why you may want to do this but it can get to be "challenging" if you don't have top notch skills. Thats where MojoPac comes in. It goes way beyond just portable apps (like portable firefox), or virtual machines, it gives you, well a PC on a stick! Why would you want such a thing well ....

Your "PC on a stick" lets you do all sorts of things, like: * Listen to your music library, watch videos and download podcasts from any PC with iTunes installed on your MojoPac (along the lines of Adam's self-sustaining iPod, but using full-on iTunes.)

* Watch downloaded video like movies or TV shows with your media player of choice from any PC on your MojoPac.

* Play PC games like World of Warcraft, Everquest or Half-Life from any PC and take the game and its current state with you.

* Use expensive PC software you have limited licenses for, like Microsoft Office or Photoshop, from any computer.

* Surf with your preferred browser, store your passwords and other sensitive data separate from an untrusted host PC.

* Backup working copies of your essential software so that if your computer crashes or hard drive fails, you can plug your MojoPac into another PC and have a working environment ready to go."

Today during a trip to Best Buy I saw 1Gb Cruzer mini flash drives for $19.99! Think thats good check out the deal that Yamagoo readers get at TigerDirect...Transcend 1GB JetFlash V10 USB Flash Drive $17.99
Go to Lifehacker and read the rest here.