MojoPac, Mobile Computing in your USB2 device

MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC.
MojoPac uses any USB2 storage device, such as iPods, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, USB-enabled cell phones, and USB-enabled digital cameras to upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere.

Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled device into any Windows XP PC , MojoPac automatically launches your environment on the host PC.
MojoPac supports popular applications such as Firefox, Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office, and it is also high performance enough to run popular PC Games such as World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2.
Your communications, music, games, applications, and files are all local and accessible.
And when you unplug the MojoPac device, no trace is left behind, because your information is not cached on the host PC.

MojoPac is a product from RingCube Technologies, a company founded in 2004 and is based in Mountain View, California.

To setup the MojoPac device, the user runs a installer and selects any USB2 storage device attached to the system.
It then creates an executable in the root of the USB2 device along with an autorun file to allow the user the option to start up the MojoPac environment automatically when the device is plugged in.
Once this application is started, a new Windows Desktop is started up in the virtualized MojoPac environment. Any application running inside this environment is based in the USB device without affecting the Operating System of the host.
The user has the option to switch between the host environment and the MojoPac environment by selecting them from a bar at the top of the screen.

Devices that can be used for MojoPac

Pros Cons Ideal Usage Mojo Devices iPod You already carry it with you for your music. So why not for your Mojo? iPods are all positive, as long as you can afford the price tag. 30-80GB iPod to carry your iTunes, work, multimedia, games, and personal apps. 2-4GB iPod nano to carry your iTunes, IM. iPod iPod Video iPod nano iPod mini USB Hard Drive High capacity (8GB - 160GB) High performance Getting smaller in size: 1'' drives are slightly larger than Flash (and can be attached to a key chain!). 1.8'' drives are the size of an iPod. The highest performance drives (2.5'') are a little large, but you can find pocket-size enclosures. Work applications, high-end games, multimedia applications, developer applications. Seagate/Maxtor, Western Digital, Hitachi for 2.5'' Toshiba MK8007GAH for 1.8'' Memorex Mega Travel Drive for 1'' USB Flash Very small form factor. Can be attached to a key-chain. Much higher $/GB compared with hard drives. Lower performance and shorter life span. Smaller applications (IM, Firefox, Google Pack, Yahoo Widgets) Memorex Imation OCZ Sandisk Lexar Cell Phone You can't go anywhere without your cell phone. So why not use it to carry your Mojo? Only a handful of expensive phones come with large internal storage. But this is changing rapidly! Work applications, multimedia and IM. Samsung i310 can carry 1-2 PC games. Nokia N91 Samsung i310 More to come…

All the applications can be run on different Windows XP computers, having all user's settings, applications, and documents functioning the same way (although is obvious that the speed depends on every Windows XP host).

Applications that can be used with MojoPac (last updated September 2007)
For an updated list visit the Mojo Applications page

Business and Productivity	Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003 (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook) Lotus Notes 6.5.3 Acrobat Reader 7 Adobe Reader 8.0 Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Quicken 2007 Open Office 2.0	Adobe Photoshop CS2: Enterprise, University and volume licenses only** Microsoft Remote Desktop - RDP Client ** Support for retail version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 will be added as an update to MojoPac 1.1.
Games	Age of Empires 3 America's Army Auto Assault Battlefield 1942* Battlefield 2* Battlefield Vietnam* Battlefield 2142* Bicycle Card Games Bicycle Casino Black & White Black & White 2* Chessclub software Blitzin 2.5 City of Heroes City of Villains Company of Heroes Condition Zero (Steam) Condition Zero Deleted Scenes (Steam) Counter-Strike 1.6 (Steam) Counter-Strike: Source (Steam) Dark Messiah Day of Defeat (Steam) Day of Defeat: Source (Steam) Deathmatch Classic (Steam) Diablo II Diablo II - Lord of Destruction Dungeons and Dragons Online EverQuest II FEAR* Fear Combat FIFA Soccer 06* FIFA Soccer 07* Ghost Recon Gothic 3 Retail* Guild Wars Guild Wars Factions Half Life: Blue Shift (Source) Half-Life (Steam) Half-Life 2 (Steam) Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (Steam) Half-Life 2: Episode One (Steam) Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Steam) Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (Steam) Half-Life: Source (Source) Heroes 5	Just Cause Madden 06* Madden 07* Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Microsoft Flight Simulator X Microsoft Zoo Tycoon Natural Selection (Steam) NCAA 07* Neverwinter Nights 2 NHL 06* NHL 07* NFL Head Coach** NFS Carbon Retail* Oblivion Opposing Force (Steam) PartyPoker Client Prey* Ricochet (Steam) Rise of Nations - Rise of Legends Second Life Sid Meier's Pirates Sims 2 Sims 2 Pets Sin 1 (Steam) Sin 1 Multiplayer (Steam) Sin Episodes: Emergence (Steam) Spellbound Retail* Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Galaxies StarCraft StarCraft: Brood War Steam Sudoku Team Fortress Classic (Steam) The Battle for Middle Earth The Lounge The Simes 2 University Tiger Woods Golf 06* Tiger Woods 07* Titan Quest Tomb Raider, The Angel of Darkness Unreal Unreal II Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2004 Warcraft III World of Warcraft *Multiplayer requires PunkBuster for selected servers. **Ignore installation errors - the game will work.
Communication and Instant Message Clients	AIM (AOL instant messenger) v 1.0.4 Gaim 1.5 Google Talk Beta mIRC 6.2 mySpace IM (Beta) Skype 2.0	Trillian Basic 3.0* Trillian Pro 3.0* TeamSpeak 2.0 Ventrilo 2.3 Yahoo Messenger 8.0 Xfire 1.6 X-Lite SoftPhone *for Trillian, please first install QuickTime 7 on your MojoPac.
Browsers	Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 (Host Only) Mozilla Firefox 1.5	Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Opera 9
Multimedia Applications	iTunes 6 iTunes 7 Quicktime 7 Real Player 10 Window Media Player 9, 10	Winamp 5 SlingPlayer 1.3 Nero 7 Nero 7.5 Zinio Reader PowerDVD 6
Photo and Graphics Editing	Adobe Photoshop CS2: Enterprise, University and volume licenses only** Irfanview 3.98 Picasa ShutterFly Studio AutoCAD 2007	Flickr Uplodr Gimp 2.2 Maya 7 Gimp ** Support for retail version of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop CS2 will be added as an update to MojoPac 1.1
Email Clients	MS Outlook 2003 Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5	Lotus Notes 6.5.3
Developer Applications and IT Apps	Borland JBuilder 2006 Cygwin Eclipse 3.2 Java J2SE 1.4, 1.5 and J2EE 1.3, 1.4 SDK JBoss Application Server 4.0 MySQL 5.0 .Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0 framework NetBeans 5.0 Putty	Python 2.4 QEmu+KQemu* Sun Java Studio Creator 2 Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Tomcat 5.0, 5.5 TurboKite 2.27 Visual Studio 2003 WireShark/Ethereal 0.99.3 WS_FTP Home Edition
Security	Clam AntiVirus 0.88.4 ewido anti-spyware 4.0 Anonymizer	Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.4 Ad-Aware Personal SE 1.06 eWallet
Miscellaneous	Google Pack (Google Earth, Picasa, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar) Yahoo Widgets Google Earth Picasa2 Nero 7	Zinio Reader Garmin MapSource Microsoft Street & Trips 2006 National Geographic Topo! Version 4 Evernote Garmin MapSource

Once the portable storage MojoPac-enabled device is disconnected from the computer, there are no traces left behind on the computer.



The MojoPac can be downloaded from the MojoPac website, and comes in 3 different versions:

• MojoPac Freedom - Free to download
  
• MojoPac Deluxe - Costs $49.99
• MojoPac Enterprise Suite - Consists of three product lines: MojoStation Series, MojoDrive Series, and MojoNet Series. No prices displayed, but you can download a Demo version.