No matter who you give gift is a man or a woman, a girl or a boy, a teen or an adult, as long as they have either computer or digital camera; they all need flash memory cards. Therefore, give a flash memory as gift can never go wrong.

There are different types of flash memory cards. What kind of flash memory card you buy depends on what type of digital camera that your friend has. There are five types of flash memory cards in the market. They are Compact Flash, Smart Media, Memory Stick (or Memory Stick Pro), Secure Digital Cards, and Multimedia Cards.

Memory Stick flash memory is mostly used in Sony Digital devices. Recently, they make a bigger capacity memory card, called Memory Stick Pro. This new high capacity cards can hold 1GB to 2GB of storage.

No matter what, the bottom line is to find out what is the brand of your friend's digital camera before buying flash memory card as gift. Regarding the size, always follow your budget. For storage device, it is always bigger, the better. Therefore, set your budget and find the memory card within your budget.

Another form of flash memory is memory drive. You may have learned something like flash drive, jump drive, USB drive, etc. Basically, this so called drive is actually not a disk drive, it is the similar to the memory drive, and is made by flash memory. The basic usage of these flash memory drives is to replace the floppy disk in computer. A typical floppy disk is 1.44MB. The flash memory drive can be up to 2GB storage. This huge storage can store documents, pictures and even programs. It is convenient and economical to share large volume of data.

Use these flash memory drive is easy. Most new computers are having USB port. Simply plug the flash memory drive in the USB drive and computer will recognize it as another disk drive.

Again, the more storage the drive has, the better. Therefore, always go with your budget when you buy flash memory drive as gift.