Daily deal – 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Gator USB flash drive for $9.99

At some point in the past year, someone at Sandisk woke up one morning and had the amazing idea to make a USB flash drive with an alligator print.

The product description is even wackier- “The Cruzer Gator is available in black with a fashionable, stylish design to let everyone know exactly who you are by showing them your USB Flash Drive“. I’m guessing that is marketing talk for “I’m someone who likes to kill alligators”.

Either way, this 4GB USB flash drive is currently on sale over at Amazon.com for just $9.99, making it one of the cheapest options out there for a brand name flash drive. As always, orders at Amazon over $25 ship for free, so order a couple of these drives for your friends, or take advantage of the Amazon Prime service for free shipping.

With a flash drive, you’ll always have a compact place to store your files, but if you are feeling a little more adventurous, you can load the drive with portable versions of your favorite applications.

A great place to find portable apps, is the conveniently names portableapps.com. The biggest advantage of these portable apps is that they all run off the USB memory drive, without the need to install anything to the host PC, making them perfect for public computers, or a work laptop.

Daily deal – Sandisk Cruzer 8GB USB memory key for $20

My daily deal for today is for the Sandisk Micro Cruzer 8GB memory key.

This portable storage key is the perfect way to carry your documents on the road, as well as a great way to keep backups of things like emergency scans of your passport and other travel documents (just be sure to password protect them!).

This product usually retails for around $40, but Radioshack of all places currently has it on sale for just $19.99, and they’ll even throw in free shipping.

The product is only available from the Radioshack website, so don’t bother trying to score this deal at your local shack. In an upcoming article I’ll write about ways you can put a USB memory key to good use, as well as ways to safeguard the data stored on it.