USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drives Gaining Features and Popularity

according to this Boston.com article. While the floppy drive has been dead on the Mac for years, the flash drive may finally kill them off on PCs. Now, flash drives are gaining features other than just being a straight copy medium.

We think someone needs to write killer Mac software that automatically exports bookmarks, contacts and other settings so the flash drive can be plugged into any Mac anywhere and the Mac will be temporarily sync'ed with the flash drive owner's configurations--kind of "My Mac is your Mac." We know one can do this with iSync and a .Mac account but it takes awhile and is difficult to remove when you are done. Such an app on a flash drive could be the next "Salling Clicker". [Dana Baggett]