Comments on: Create a virtual Windows PC on a mobile device with MojoPac

By: Rajinder Pal Singh

Rajinder Pal Singh — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:43:58 +0000

Really Really A Great Job……..

Keep It Up…

By: Tutte le applicazioni di cui abbiamo bisogno sempre in tasca e su qualunque computer

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:47:25 +0000

[...] e molto altro. DownloadBlog parlò di MojoPac addirittura 1 anno e mezzo fa. Ma, come riporta Freewaregenius solo in questi giorni è diventato freeware. Il prodotto è compatibile unicamente con Windows [...]

By: M Mussio

M Mussio — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:51:06 +0000

I’ve read through the above comments and felt I had to add my own 2 cents. While a lot of the above criticisms mentioned are indeed true I feel this program offers a lot of flex ability and potential. I’ve been using Mojo for almost a year now and have a great amount of success with the program.

Right off yes, unless you have Usher installed on the host machine you need administrative rights, which I agree with Jeff Ritter is very prohibitory for most users whose work environment will grant them little or no administrator rights. I work for a college as a IT support and as such am given administrator rights to my computer, but all others run only as users or power users. I also agree with Joe, unless you need specific applications, you can often find USB portable equivalents which can run on any Windows machine, and I am a big fan of USB portable apps. In fact I have more installed on my ipod then anything else.

Having said all of that, I love it. Yes I’ve run in to a few issues. Networked drives, printing issues, some program incapability and other “bugs” But I still love it. I find this program gives me huge flexibility by allowing me to have the same applications, same desktop and settings both at home and at work and any other computer I happen to chance upon.

I find switching between the host and mojo environment allows a great deal of multitasking. I often find myself running applications in both environments at work, with little performance hit. I also don’t need to worry about our college policy of installing personal software at work. It’s all on my ipod where I can access it as I need it.

And while no application works for all, I hope others will try this interesting concept.

By: cp304

cp304 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:02:22 +0000

nice review indeed

By: Barry Cleave

Barry Cleave — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:47:16 +0000

I was going to try out Mojopac earlier this month while on holiday but didn’t find the time. (Sad when you spend half your holiday on a laptop!!!). Interested by Joe’s comments on using portable applications ’cause I am a really big fan of them.

Anyway I will try out Mojopac in the near future and give it a review on my blog.

By: jsanderz

jsanderz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:18 +0000

I have been using Mojopac for nearly one year and have found it to be very useful, as long as you go to the mojopac website they have a list of compatible apps. However their latest update stopped me from printing, along with other bugs, which to me is useless. I have stopped using mojopac until they find a solution.
Regards.

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:56:20 +0000

Not working with every computer, lots of apps not working with this app… crashing.. needing admin rights… need to install app on host computer….
This app will cause mainly frustration I think!! My guess this app isn’t worth your money and never will be. And I don’t want it as freeware either!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:54:09 +0000

Unless you absolutely need specific programs that are not USB portable, you can have your own set of USB applications to do most of the things you listed – with no administrative rights needed on host machines (except you might have problems with Vista’s UAC), and no need to “switch” between environments (you’re just running programs).

Portable Thunderbird for email
Portable Gimp for image editing
Portable Firefox to bring all of your bookmarks and extensions with you (with the Scribefire extension, for blogging)

After scanning the applications list you linked to, it seems that gaming has the most to gain from MojoPac versus portable versions, along with the developer IDEs (though there are some portable IDEs), the security apps (though there is a portable Clamwin), and the desktop widgets and other things like Google Earth.

For multi-protocol IM, there’s Pidgin (or Meebo.com – why not use an online service for something that can ONLY be done while you’re online)

For video, VLC is tops, and is portable.

There’s even portable Open Office, for working with spreadsheets, documents, slideshows, and databases, a la MS Office.

The above can all be found at portableapps.com

For a portable music library, Foobar2000’s internal playlists are based on relative paths, so you can use it on a removable drive and not have to worry about the drive letter changing.

Faststone Image Viewer, IrfanView, and xnView all offer portable versions of their own.

Almost anything you want to do with your computer can be done with a portable app.

Wikipedia has a decent list and there are other sources, but the best place I know of for finding portable applications is http://www.portablefreeware.com

By: Tomaste

Tomaste — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:16:09 +0000

vmware Player is free, and reputable. Unless I’m mistaken, It can do everything this can, and you can load the player on a bootable CD for even more independence from the host computer.

also check out Moka5.com for another free solution that will stream your virtual PCs live from a web server. No need to even carry them on a thumb drive (though you can if you want to save bandwidth.)

By: zkam

zkam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:47:39 +0000

Check out the Security Now podcast (ep. 63) from Oct. 26, 2006, in which Mojopac was discussed in detail. (I realize that was quite some time ago, so it’s possible that a lot has changed since then).

http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

By: slobu

slobu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:07:48 +0000

You can share your C drive to get around the local disk restriction. I get more weird networking related BSODS when I shut down the real computer using MojoPac though. Nice that they went free on this app. Could have gone without the “Tell a fried” on their obtrusive menu bar. Thankfully, some end-users have made tools to disable the mandatory menu bar.

By: ACMAGO

ACMAGO — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:04:52 +0000

No, thanks. I won’t take the trouble of trying out this a second time. I guess now I remember: its license agreement states clearly the program may collect information about its users. Pardon if I am wrong and this has been changed.

By: ACMAGO

ACMAGO — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:59:43 +0000

I can’t remember which one right now, but one of my antispyware/antivirus reported not long ago that a module of this program is adware/malware. So I wondered: is it really “freeware”, not without a hidden cost indeed?

By: Jeff Ritter

Jeff Ritter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:57:47 +0000

The biggest limiting factor for being able to use this at work is this, taken from the “System Requirements” MojoPac page:

Access Privileges:
MojoPac requires the host PC be logged in with administrative privileges or have MojoPac Usher installed. MojoPac Usher is an application that can be installed on host computers to enable MojoPac to run with a limited mode host login.

Most companies do not allow the general client population to have admin rights. Rather dissapointing really, I’d like to have a Linux version so I could learn and play at work (during my breaks of course)