MojoPac Desktop Virtualization Software

Notebooks are a boon for travellers. They give you the mobility and freedom

to carry all 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 virtualization software called

MojoPac. It can be installed on any USB storage 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

installable 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 converts 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 transfer files and folders from the host PC to the portable

device. So, effectively, the device having MojoPac is the real PC having all

applications 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 attached 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.

Shown here is the Mojopac desktop on the host PC. You can freely use all your personal settings and applications

Bottomline: An ideal tool for

professionals to carry their personal settings and applications around, and that

too in a device that fits into their pocket.