Change E-life: Replace your laptop with a USB drive or iPod

On your next trip, consider leaving the heavy laptop behind. After all, you can replace the role of the laptop on the road with other devices, like a thumb drive or an iPod. Today, many portable Windows applications will run off a thumb drive -- including MojoPac and U3 -- allowing you to run applications such as Microsoft Outlook and save documents on the thumb drive. Of course, you'll need access to a host machine, but once you have that, you can plug in your MojoPac-equipped thumb drive at any computer or workstation at, say, a cybercafe, and access your documents and applications. Similarly, you can use a thumb drive to store and run free portable applications, such as Firefox, the Pidgin IM client and the Sumatra PDF reader. You can download these free programs at PortableApps.com...