5 Things You Can Do With Flash Memory

5 Things You Can Do With Flash Memory


Do you have a flash memory card?
Flash memory card not only for your digital camera. Perhaps the coolest way to be ignored not use your flash memory card is as floppy drive replacement. Think about it, flash memory card is really a form of disk storage.

Most notebook computers these days do not come with a floppy drive anymore. I personally have been in a situation where I need to share files with someone and have not been able to because they gave me a floppy disk.

If you already have a card or digital camera, chances are you already have the necessary equipment to read the card and transfer files to and from them. If you're not easier. Get yourself a flash memory card reader - they are so cheap these days you can even pick one up free after rebate if you watch the bidding. Hookup it to your computer and pop in the card. It will appear on your computer as a new drive. When you are ready to save data to it, just drag and drop. This is no different than regular floppy or hard drive. After you see in this light there are a number of things that you can use your flash memory card for and here are 5 ideas to get you.

1. Use it as a greeting card.
Hey there's always room in the corner. If you are thinking of sending a CD greeting card - using a flash memory card instead. With the large storage size you can afford to have multimedia in your ecards too and when people get tired of it, the card itself is a reward for their computational convenience. As if that was not enough, you can probably get by with less postage too.

2. Use it as a storage medium.
One of the best things about flash memory card is how much can physically small size in. With memory sizes up to several Gigabytes, you can use it to store media such as video clips, sound clips, images, audio files and almost any downloadable content. Its small size also makes it highly portable without taking up valuable space on your notebook computer's hard drive.

3. Sharing files or transferring files from one computer to another.
If you need to do this often, here's a quick tip. Bring with you a USB card reader. Many of them are very compact and no heavier than your cell phone. Doing this has advantages over carrying a flash memory drive. Flash memory cards are smaller and smaller card catalog can offer more than a flash memory drive. Better carry two things from a bunch of drives.

4. Build yourself an ebook library.
Are you a book worm? One small flash memory card can store a lot of ebooks since most text-based files are smaller than media files. You can store an entire library of ebooks on various topics both on one card or dedicate one for each topic you are interested in. Again, they are easy to share and very portable - you'll never run out of reading material even when on the road again.

5. Run small software from it.
Yes, there is a small software that does not need to be installed and can be run from the card itself. This is especially useful when you use someone else's computer. Now you can carry your software with you too.

Now you know - Just because your new camera is not compatible with it does not mean you should throw it into the waste and the best part is, you do not have to worry about obsolete cards anymore.