You’re on a business trip when you realize vital files you need to work on are on the computer at home. Or perhaps you want to share pictures of the newborn with grandma but don’t want to take the date to upload them.

A new $99 white contraption called Pogoplug promises to bail you out. And unlike other remote computing solutions, Pogoplug is relatively simple and fast to set up and use, notwithstanding a couple of minor activation challenges.

When you plug Pogoplug into your home network router (via ethernet cable) and plug a USB hard drive into Pogoplug, you can remotely access and share files on that drive by the Net.

You don’t have to load software or muck with networking settings. And despite a few drawbacks — it didn’t work with all of the portable USB drives I plugged in — the device pretty much lives up to its […]

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