USB Bluetooth

Flash Drive again? No, its not a flash drive like my previous post. It may look like one but its not. Still doesn't believe me?  Okay fine, I'll tell what it is. It is a "USB Bluetooth stick". What's up with the "stick". Nah! Just to add up emphasis. Does it help? No? Okay fine, "USB Bluetooth".

USB Bluetooth is a small device like the flash drive that is being connected into your computer or laptop via its USB port to enable file transfer. It is commonly used in transferring files from mobile phones which is Bluetooth enabled to your PC. You simply plug it in the USB port and wait for the computer's response. The computer will detect its drivers and installs it. Yeah, it is automatic because for most of the USB bluetooth has built-in drivers. Though, in some cases you need to download it from other sources. After the installation, in my case I'm using the Windows XP flatform, I can see a Bluetooth icon in the icon tray, that is in the the lower right corner of the screen. If you want to use the Bluetooth just right-click the icon and it will give some options either to send or receive and some other things. The succeeding steps is just a matter of click. It is easy to understand.

USB Flash Drive

USB flash drive is a flash memory data storage device. It is used to store data files from your computer  via its USB (Universal Serial Bus) port. USB flash drives are created with the same purpose of CD-ROMs and floppy disk but because of the enormous advantage of the flash drive, CD-ROMs and floppy disks are abandoned in favor to the USB flash drives  approximately in the year 2005.

Let me tell you some related events that I experience with regards with this USB flash drives. When I was still a staff in the school publication, my co-staff always correct me that this memory storage device that I mention above is not a "USB" but a "Flash Drive" it's because I used to refer it as "USB" alone. It puzzled me. So, I'm trying to figure it out how come it should not be called a "USB". I confronted the internet and brings me to this certain write-up about "USB". It just then that I learn that "USB" stands for "Universal Serial Bus" a certain port at the back of the system unit, in laptops, VCD/DVD players and to some other devices."USB" is just a port and not a device. So, if we're referring to this data storage device, we should called it "FLASH DRIVE".