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Be softer with your computer hardware

I am one of those people that cannot part with old hardware. However, often you have to resort to open versions of equivalent software for the older machines because of the ruling that each computer that the software can run on needs its own license. This is true even if your never ever going to run the software on two of your machines simultaneously.

What Google has done and others are moving towards are Internet based equivalents of software which free you from some of these licensing practices.

However, today I stumbled across a piece of software which allows the user to install their software on a removable device which can then be attached to any host running a compatible operating system.

This leaves the host machines totally clean while allowing their resources to be used by the software on the removable device to pick up and put back data only on the removable device.

How cool is that! Now go and try it at www.mojopac.com where you can download a free 30 day trial.

Update Now it is even cooler, you can get a version for FREE