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To break the scary trend of politically charged posts , I’m going to tell you all about my newest USB drive. That’s right. Get into it, people!

I got a 4Gb Cruzer Micro, and the first thing I did after plugging it in, was uninstall U3. No, thanks, I don’t want something installing into my computer for my portable device. And it’s also ugly. And I didn’t want it, I just wanted 4Gbs of storage in my keychain!
Luckily, I was able to uninstall U3 without a problem, but after reading a bit, I guess some people have had trouble in the past. They have a page here to download an uninstaller, which to me says "oh hi, most people are not going to know how to uninstall this bloatware, and out of those, most of them are going to be to lazy to research how to do it, muahahha ".

At any rate, I happily had a device that was nothing but a dumping ground for all my secret documents. I was a happy customer now.

But then, I started wondering. Why would anyone even use U3? I came to find out that it would be useful to have some portable applications that you carry around on your keychain. Like your browser, with all of your bookmarks… And maybe even a password manager, so that you don’t have to remember all your different passwords for myspace, facebook, twitter and Oprah’s fan club site.

So, in search for an alternative, I ran into PortableApps and PStart. I ended up trying PortableApps first, and I haven’t had any problems at all, so I didn’t even make it to the other alternative. Now, I have Firefox, FileZilla, 7-zip, Miranda, Notepad++ and PuTTY, anywhere I go.

And one of these bookmarks that go with me now, is for FreeRice.com. It’s a good time killer for about 10 minutes, which serves multiple functions: entertainment, improvement of my engrish :eng101: by making me learn new and crazy words, and it helps feed the hungry of the world, by donating 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program for each word you get right. Go check it out!

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