my pocket tools

These are my two favourite pocket tools. the first is a good old fashioned victorinox swiss army knife....very useful for well cutting things and loosening screws and opening beer and tins etc.

The second is a 4gb USB pendrive....I love these things, mine is not only holding handy documents but is running a fine array of open source and freeware portable apps (from portableapps.com) . I can plug into any PC anywhere and have all my stuff with me (browser and plugins, email, office suite, image editing, audio editing, media player, IM software, and minesweeper to name but a few). I even carry round a copy of my website files, databases + apache and mysql just in case I need to carry out some emergency website work on the move. All of this convenience for under ten pounds...ain't technology grand these day!!

If your not already using your portable drive like this...I suggest you try it, very useful indeed. I can also recommend another freeware program called TrueCrypt for encrypting your drive....it's not the simplest tool to use but if you have time to figure it out, its very powerful and having such an easy to lose piece of technology crammed full of personal info encrypted helps me sleep better. =)