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Working with multiple computers
Most of us use computers at work and at home. In addition, we often use more than one computer at each location. When we go to conferences and meetings, we may use a computer provided at the site. We also may use a colleague or friends computer.
This situation leads to special problems:
1. Remembering URLs of the various web sites (e-mail, finance, news, references, etc.)
2. Remembering our log in information for these sites
3. Accessing our documents and other files when required
4. Security concerns about leaving bits of our files and log in information, sites visited, etc on the various computers we use.
5. There is also the ever present risk of having your portable devices (laptop, USB drive) stolen with loss of information.
So what are the possible solutions to this problem?
1. Use an online bookmarking solution like Google Bookmarks. You can then get access to these bookmarks in several ways
- On computers that you can install stuff you can use Google Toolbar, or you can use an add on for Firefox called Google Bookmarks Button.
- On a friend's computer or at a conference you could just go to the Google Bookmarks page or add Google bookmarks to your iGoogle page and access all your bookmarks from iGoogle.
2. Use a USB browser like the Firefox you can get at Portable Apps. You can store all your favorites on that browser like you would on a browser on your computer except you take this with you on your USB drive. The good news is that you don't leave anything behind on the host computer. You could keep your passwords too on the browser (Tools>> Options>> security)on your USB drive. Clearly you would want to enable the security on the USB drive so none but you can use it. Make sure you also enable and use a strong master password if you store passwords on a portable browser on your USB drive as these have a tendency to get lost or fall into the wrong hands.