In today was an interesting design for the South Florida Super Bowl Committee printed on AE style custom USB drives.

Looks great, huh? Read more details on these AE custom flash drives and start thinking about your own custom USB drives today!

Just take a peek at our beautiful and exquisite WDR7 square shaped wood custom USB drives with the earth-friendly Anvil logo print.

These unique wooden drives are magnetic and will drive your campaign into a new level of awareness. Knock on wood!

Available in shades of light and dark, these sharp looking drives are perfect for environmentally friendly organizations and companies that want to Go Green in style!

Go ahead and read more about WDR7 style wooden custom USB drives to get the full scoop on this hot device!

We just completed these awesome executive business card custom USB drives for Asian Gang Investigators law enforcement unit in California.

Our business card style custom flash drives are made of durable plastic, with a USB extension in the back that easily snaps out of place for utilizing the flash drive, and can be quickly retracted back into the thin business card design.

If you want custom USB flash drives that reflect your daily activity in a hectic world, these are a perfect match, because they are both lightweight and portable devices that fit in a practical fashion.

Check out all the specs on these amazing card style custom flash drives.

A handsome custom shape USB flash drive has just been completed for Winn Technology Group.

This unique custom drive features a tailored water design on the front, with the company logo print on the second side.

This long oval custom flash drive is made from a rubber material that is both soft to the touch and able to withstand the test of time, also featuring an easy removable cap.

As you can tell, we are very passionate about getting quality custom USB drives off the assembly line for our customers. Let us know your thoughts on this brand new design!

If you’re like most flash drive enthusiasts, the topic of the notorious ‘Autorun.inf’ is bound to come up at some point when working with data customization. The purpose of this file is a mystery to most computer users, however it is the cornerstone of any automated task(s) that should occur once the drive is inserted, hence the file name ‘Autorun’.

Autorun is able to change these (and I will show you how in a minute):

• Which file or executable should be opened once the USB drive is plugged in.
• Your custom icon of choice whenever a user sees the USB drive listed within Windows Explorer.
• A custom name for your USB drive as shown in Explorer, only up to 12 characters.
• Options for the menu shown whenever you right-click the USB drive icon.

One thing to remember with this drive feature is that it works only on machines with the versions of Windows after 98 but before Vista, such as 2000 and XP. This is because previous versions of Windows did not include the drivers for USB. Newer versions of Windows like XP SP3 and Vista began disabling autorun as a security precaution against malware. Obviously, in these scenarios any features using autorun with a flash drive would fail massively.

When you plug in a flash drive on a Windows system that recognizes it, if there is no custom autorun by default you will see a lame pop up window such as one of these:

Windows 2000/XP -

Windows Vista/7 - (cannot be changed unfortunately)

For 2000/XP you can customize your drive’s behavior by creating an ‘Autorun.inf’ file. Do this by simply right clicking in your flash drive directory, choose ‘New’ and then ‘Text Document’. Rename the file by hitting ‘F2′ or right clicking the new text file and choosing ‘rename’, then change the name to ‘Autorun.inf’. Yes, it has to be called this exact name or your custom autorun commands will not work. Windows will check the root of your flash drive for this exact file and follow its commands if it is there.

Now you must enter your commands for this file. It is still technically a text file, so you can open in notepad and it should do this automatically on most systems if you just double click the file.

The Ropes:

All ‘Autorun.inf’ files must start with:

The command to run a file is:

The command for a custom icon is:

The command for a custom drive name is:

The command for adding your own context menu item is:

The second line tells the computer what to open on clicking that menu item. In this case, it is example.exe.

Also don’t forget to include the name of your command from the first line (example) in the second line right after shell\. Doesn’t have to be example, it can be whatever you want, within reason. The really cool thing is that this pair of lines can be repeated for as many menu items you wish to add! Just be sure to name your items differently so they aren’t repeated twice, which would likely cause menu item failure.

So an example of a custom autorun would all go together like this:
[autorun]
open=example.exe
icon=example.ico
label=example drive
shell\example1=What is this product?
shell\example1\command=what.exe
shell\example2=How to Order
shell\example2\command=order.exe

Wrap Up:
That’s all there really is to it! Easy, right? Just remember to save in notepad and copy the file to the root of your USB flash drive if you haven’t already and test it out on a compatible operating system. Hope you found this little article helpful and amusing. Have fun with your own custom autorun!

We just completed this order for Mechtronics using both the white color SWM style printable metal swivel flash drive along with our clear plastic case packaging option. You can choose from a variety of color choices (including custom colors) for this popular flash drive. As well, you also have several choices for a packaging option should you need one.

We think that they turned out pretty spectacular. What do you think?

We got yet another large order from Wells Fargo in today. This time they went with our DH style drive.  This sleek, compact little drive is extremely durable and portable.  They have also opted to use our data pre-loading service to save some much needed capital.  By distributing most of their written materials for office staff on the drives rather than printing large amounts of paper booklets, they are saving approximately 30% over the cost of printing.

In the quest for a greener work environment you too can end up saving capital by using Flash Drives and being a player in the ever-growing, eco-friendly business environment.    Using flash drives to distribute data, whether inter-office, or to potential customers, is an excellent way to both save money AND help the environment.  Less trees need to be cut down, less strain on our recycling companies, and the best part is: All of our drives are ROHS compliant, free of Lead, Cadium, and other harmful chemicals.  If you have any experience in printed materials, then you know how much printing a 100-page training manual can become.   It gets me fuming when I think of how disposable these become because the only value it has is the value that employee places upon the company it represents.  I know this seems a little harsh, but this is the real world and most people hate their jobs.  So, why not give your employee an added incentive, a bonus if you will, to reading that manual and placing more value to it by offering them a “gift” along with it?  Plus, flash drives are more likely to get lost than thrown away, unlike printed materials that have to be tossed or recycled at the end of each quarter.  But, what about the data on the drive?  What if someone decides that they don’t need it anymore and want to delete it?  Well, there is a solution for that, too!

Our Permanent Content service can secure any data from deletion or manipulation.  By creating a partition on the flash drive, we essentially split the drive into to parts.  the first part, which acts as a CD or DVD will contain data that is to be protected, and the remaining part of the drive still acts as a storage device.  For example:  If you had an employee training manual you wanted on a customized flash drive and still allow your employees to save pertinent paperwork, spreadsheets, etc. onto that same drive, you would choose the Permanent Content service.  Say you decide to go with a 1Gb drive imprinted with your company logo and you want to upload a manual of approx. 50Mb.   The 50Mb document will be safely paritioned to one side of the drive while you would still have 995Mb worth of storage space.   When you plug in the drive, the computer will actually recognize it as two devices, another way to guarantee that important material is seen properly.

Any way you slice it, customized, pre-loaded USB drives are a cost-effective and just-plain-effective way to distribute data of any kind.   Folks, don’t just look at the inital investment you would have to make.  Unlike the vast majority of people, you need to LOOK TO THE FUTURE.  Long-term.  The $5, or $7, or even $15 you may spend on a customized flash drive today could end up costing you pennies in the long run!