Seagate FreeAgent Go January 17th, 2008 | by Josh Norem
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Features and Design Ceedo Software Clicking the central button opens up the start menu, which looks very similar to the one found on Windows XP. Programs you use show up on the left, and you can even browse “all programs” to look at all installed programs. By default there are no programs installed aside from Internet Explorer, but Ceedo has a large online database of programs that are free to download and use, including very awesome software like VLC player, Winrar, FireFox and Thunderbird, and much, much more. The idea is to put any files you want in My Documents, My Pictures, etc, and then you have them with you when you move from computer to computer. You can even browse the web from the FreeAgent, and keep all your bookmarks on it as well. Syncing
The FreeAgent Pro is a wedge-shaped portable hard drive that features a plastic case with an orange activity light on the bottom. Inside lies the hard drive, which ranges in size from 80GB to 320GB.
It’s a USB 2.0 drive that comes with a Y-cable. If you have an older PC that doesn’t put out enough juice from a single USB port, you just plug in the second cable and it’ll power the drive.
The software package that comes with the drive includes some Seagate tools as well as the primary package, which is named Ceedo. The Seagate tools just show you the drive is connected, let you adjust the sleep timer and even let you turn off the bright orange activity light if it bothers you.
Ceedo is the star of the show here, and if you use the drive as intended, you’ll be using it almost the entire time you’re using the FreeAgent Go. Ceedo is basically a program that runs off the drive that gives you a Windows-like interface to launch programs, manage files, and so forth. When you connect the drive to the PC, Ceedo launches a little taskbar in the center of your screen that looks like this.
The Ceedo start menu is organized just like the XP start menu.
In terms of security, you can password-protect the drive but there’s no encryption utility or anything like that.
Aside from Ceedo, the FreeAgent Go has a built-in syncing tool that lets you sync folders from several different computers to the drive. You can set the drive to automatically sync upon detection or to manually sync your files.
by ken_r on November 8, 2009:
“I'd like to add a few things to what has been said in both the article and R Bartel's comments. The shortcuts to Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and the Microsoft Office applications that are installed on the host PC are known as "profiled applications."...” More...