Weekend and USB Memory sticks

[giza]

Since my head issues cleared up on Friday night, I ended up having a pretty good weekend. I did lots of laundry, paid my bills for the month, and entertained omnibahumut on Saturday evening with episodes of House M.D. and the first season of Drawn Together. I am not sure if he has fully recovered from the latter, though. ;-)

And the weather here. It. Kicked. Ass. It was about 30 with a light wind and quite sunny.


Now, on the subject of USB memory sticks, I'm thinking of getting one. It'd make it easy for me to carry files around without having to burn a CD every time I want to do so. Since I have never bought a memory stick before, does anyone have any suggestions? Specifically stuff along the lines of:

• Companies to buy from/avoid?
  
• Any "gotchas" regarding the technology that I should be aware of?
  
• Any "sweet spots" regarding the price/capacity curve?
  

I haven't decided on a size. I think anywhere between 256 Megs and a Gig should suit my needs. Pointers to FAQs are also welcome. Thanks!

Comments

Re: USB Thingies

[giza.livejournal.com]

I don't follow you about windows not being maximized. Can you elaborate?

You can use Safari if you don't like FireFox. By default, it does not do tabbing.

Re: USB Thingies

[awolf.livejournal.com]

My understanding is when you maximize a Mac window, it fills *most* of the screen, leaving spaces around the edges where, if you accidentally click, you might switch to a background window. I prefer a maximized window to claim the entire desktop so I'm not distracted by background stuff. I like some of the graphical window switching they do, though.

I'll probably go all FireFox eventually, I'm just reluctant to change yet. :) It's currently my default but I still usually use IE, and the bookmarks in one don't update in the other unless I import, which seems silly that they can't use the same system folders. Probably MS' fault.

Trickster

Re: USB Thingies

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Well, the "problem" with bookmarks is IE uses a folder with lots of little "url" files, whereas Firefox (Mozilla and Netscape) use a single HTML (xml?) file called "Bookmarks.html". Even if they were in the same system folder, neither would make sense for the other (well, you can open the bookmarks.html file in IE, and it lists all the bookmarks, but not add them to your favorites directly).
A solution is storing your favorites/bookmarks elsewhere. I use "Bookmarks synchronizer", a Firefox plugin that uploads my bookmarks to a webdav (it can do FTP too) server for me to keep them in sync between computers and OS'es
That plugin doesn't exist for IE, but I read in a forum there's a plugin for IE that does the same and /is/ compatible with Bookmarks synchronizer.

Re: USB Thingies

[giza.livejournal.com]

> My understanding is when you maximize a Mac window, it fills *most* of the screen,

That may be application-specific, but I just tried it with Terminal in OS/X 10.4 (Tiger), and it takes up the entire screen like you'd expect.

> which seems silly that they can't use the same system folders.

I'd like to point out (which you probably already know :-) that the world does not revolve around Microsoft. FireFox exists for at least two other architectures, namely OS/X and Linux. So it needs to use a bookmarking scheme that will also work on those platforms. And that is one of the beauties of FireFox. I've used it on all 3 platforms, and it's basically the same experience.

I've also transferred bookmark files between all 3 platforms without incident. (through a module (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=14&application=firefox) that uploads your bookmark file to an FTP server and can be used to retrieve it on different machines. It's pretty hot)