As you browse the Market and install apps on your Android phone, you may find your phone running low on storage space.

Moving apps to your SD card

or USB storage frees up space. The downside is that apps might take longer to launch, especially on initial start-up, and apps on the SD card or USB storage won't be available if you have your phone mounted as a USB drive on the computer.

USB drives have gone from the latest and greatest to rote and routine. It's no longer enough to just create a USB drive, now, you have to create a USB drive in a form factor that people haven't seen before and that they simply must have. If you're a Star Wars devotee, Tyme Machines has something for you in the form of sculpted USB drives in the form of your fave characters from a galaxy far, far away.

Many Android phones come with a microSD card in the box to expand storage capacity. Did you know you can

use your Android phone as a USB drive on your computer

if you have an SD card inserted? Here's how to

use an Android phone as USB mass storage

.

Hard drives have become huge and today, many are shipping with one terabyte hard drives.

Flash storage

has also vastly improved, but what is it? And how does it differ from traditional hard drive storage?

You may have been shopping online or in a store and seen a USB drive labeled as "

U3 Compliant

". Often these drives may also be called "

U3 Smart Drives

." Sounds great!... but

what is U3

?

If you've installed

PortableApps on your USB drive

you can take Firefox and other programs with you easily. Just plug in the USB drive, click on the menu and you can be browsing in just seconds. With

Portable Firefox on your USB drive

you can

browse privately on any computer

and

leave no web traces

on the computer you're using as all data is saved back to your USB drive.

When you travel there's no reason you can't take some software with you right on your USB drive. With PortableApps you can pick from a wide range of

portable applications that run from your USB drive

. Wherever you go you can plug in to a PC and

take your favorite applications with you

.

If you have a

USB drive

you can carry quite a bit of information around on it. Documents, passwords, bookmarks, and more. If you have something like

PortableApps

installed on it you could have even more information. It might be wise to

encrypt your USB drive

just in case you lose it.

When you travel there's no reason you can't take some software with you right on your

USB drive

. With PortableApps you can pick from a wide range of

portable applications

that are designed to install to and

run from your USB drive

. Wherever you go you can plug in to any PC and turn it into your PC, without leaving any traces.