Notebooks are a boon for travellers. They give you the mo¬bility and freedom to carryall your data, applications, etc wherever you travel. Have you ever wished that you could carry the same data and applications without really lugging a laptop around with you? Maybe instead of a laptop, carry a small device that fits in your shirt's pocket? Well, that's exactly what RingCube Technologies has introduced. It's a desktop virtualiza¬tion software called MojoPac. It can be installed on any USB stor¬age device and used to capture personal settings, configurations, applications and data files from your personal computer. By connecting a MojoPac installed device to any Win XP based PC, you can have your own personal desktop created on that host PC.

MojoPac currently supports Windows XP based computers. It is a small install able file of about 8 MB that can be installed on any USB 2.0 compliant device, be it an iPod, mobile phone, pen drive or portable HDD. Once MojoPac has been installed, you can log on to the MojoPac desktop that runs from the portable device. It con¬verts your portable device into your 'C' drive where applications can be loaded and data files copied. It also provides the facility to transfer your Mozilla and IE settings such as bookmarks, Home page, etc through a Data Copy. This allows you to have your own personal bookmarks and browsing settings when using MojoPac on a host PC. The 'Data Copy' option can also be used to transferfiles and folders from the host PC to the portable device. So, effec¬tively, the device haVing MojoPac is the real PC haVing all applica¬tions and settings while the computer to which it is attached is just a utility to run MojoPac. You can install applications on the portable device and access them from any PC, anywhere. Most of the regular applications can be installed, be they for business.

developers, editing tools or games. MojoPac allows full access to the host PC's resources like printers, network, CD/DVD drive and at¬tached peripherals. It provides complete isolation from the host PC, so that application data and settings are not stored on the host PC, including browser history. We installed MojoPac Deluxe on a 110 GB portable USB HDD, and installed applications like MS Office, Eclipse, Java SDK, etc on it, along with importing IE settings. When plugging this device on an XP machine, without MS Office or Java installed, we were able to work on Eclipse and create MS Office documents. We were also able to have our IE bookmarks available. However, what it lacks is security. In case, you lose the portable device, you lose all the settings along with it. MojoPac is available in two versions---Deluxe is paid, while Freedom is available for free but limited by the lack of technical support and doesn't have the option to configure auto-updates which run each time the device is plugged into any host.