USB Safely Remove

I eventually bought USB Safely Remove. If you make use of USB devices, especially USB drives and flash drives, then this tool is essential.

I find that sometimes when I want to remove a USB device from my PC that it won't detach. Sometimes it is something obvious like I am still copying a file to it, but sometimes you have no idea why it won't detach.

USB Safely Remove fixes that. It will force detach the device if you are certain that everything is finished. It will also tell you which process is preventing you from detaching the device.

Gmail Filesystem

I vaguely remember having a Firefox plug-in that allow me to send email via Gmail whenever I click on a mailto: link on any web page. In my search for this plug-in I stumbled across this site. Nothing spectacular about it until you read about the Gmail FS.

Now the Gmail FS allows any Linux system to mount the free space on your Gmail account as another filesystem. Now there is a Firefox plug-in called Gspace that also allows you to use your free Gmail storage but this to me makes more sense since I am using Ubuntu and I do love my console.

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe soon I will give it spin. I still haven't found the Gmail mailto: plug-in, maybe I dreamed it.