Mobile Memory - another use for your camera
Here's a tip that could save some of you a few dollars:
One day I was looking in 'My Computer' while I had my Nikon Coolpix camera plugged into a USB port. It appeared as a removeable drive so I tried shuffling files into and out of it just to see what happened. It worked just fine as a 'memory stick' and still works as a camera with the non-image files on it too, so I haven't bothered buying a separate memory stick. Just plug the camera's USB cable into any plug 'n play equipped computer and its recognized straight away as a removeable drive. I no longer bother with the special software for getting pictures off the camera either - I just move the image files across using My Computer. I have more than one card for it and who keeps a full 256 Megs of photos on board their camera anyway?
I don't know if this works with other cameras, but I don't see why it shouldn't. It just depends on what you use the memory stick for - they're just the job for carrying working files around in your shirt pocket, but if, like BRL you just want to transfer files from one computer to another, its a cheap option. The camera is always in my briefcase anyway...