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RingCube's MojoPac
Review by: Kaustav Acharya

Remote access, while powerful and useful, can be difficult to work with. You are heavily dependent on an Internet connection and should something go wrong or your connection gets hacked, a perpetrator could have access to your entire desktop. This is viable threat, and even the strictest computer networks have the common remote desktop ports turned off for security reasons.

RingCube's MojoPac shines a new light onto the world of "take your PC anywhere." MojoPac's unique software manages to store an entire Windows XP Desktop, the settings, programs and preferences into any removable storage device such as an iPod or thumb drive. Essentially MojoPac copies the necessary files onto the storage device and once it is plugged into another Windows XP computer, it will borrow the resources such as drivers and necessary ".dll" files.

As MojoPac uses USB to communicate between the two 'computers', it's important to run a fast mass storage device. We highly recommend USB 2.0 or above. We tested launching the higher end application such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 and were impressed with the results. We were also impressed with load time and stability of the Microsoft Office suite.

MojoPac not only is a cool accessory to have, but it is also a sure way for students to ensure that their sensitive files are private. Since no traces of your work (cache or otherwise) are stored on the host computer, you are able to open sensitive documents without the risk of them being found again and put to ill-use.

The interface is fairly rock solid. The only gripe that we have is that it's not cross compatible with the Mac platform. We hope that RingCube launches that relatively quickly especially with the launching of Apple's Leopard. Prices are set at $29.99 for the initial license and $14.99 for the add-ons. They are expected to approximately double in the near future.

Learn more at http://www.mojopac.com.