Tech Tip 128 - Computing on the Go with PortableApps

Posted by on 06/24 at 03:45 PM
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Taking your computing wherever you go usually means carrying a notebook computer, a PDA, or a smart phone like the BlackBerry Pearl. But, you really don’t need anything that big to compute on the go. All you need is a USB flash drive (also called a USB key or a USB thumb drive) and a free set of programs called PortableApps. Then, you can do your work, communicate with friends and family, and more simply by plugging into a computer running Windows.

    Posted by njaneardude  on  06/24  at  10:07 PM

  1. Scott,

    Cool tip!  Brave man, buying a flash drive from Beijing?  I’ve read more than one case of flash drives in sealed containers from China containing trojans : (

    ~n

    2. Posted by AsteriskWIFI  on  06/25  at  04:05 AM

  2. Great overview on the emerging popularity of U3 drives and portableapps. It’s still a red-headed stepchild of the business-on-the-road crew, but will catch fire when the manufacturers provide some incentive to write additional applications.

    I agree with njaneardude; you are a brave man. You must have had a company expense account. grin

    3. Posted by turbo mike  on  06/25  at  08:29 AM

  3. Great post...very informative and well written!!

    4. Posted by Justin  on  06/28  at  04:12 PM

  4. Thank you for an informative article with useful links.

    The suites are a good idea because a few other portable apps e.g., available at The Portable Freeware Collection

    http://www.portablefreeware.com

    don’t work very well (some can even affect applications already installed on computers), however, at this collection users can post comments including workarounds and alternate apps.

    J

    PS When using portable apps, it’s good practice to keep your data in a folder in the flash drive’s root directory rather than using the default locations used by some portable apps, otherwise if you later delete an app, to update for example, your data could be lost.

    5. Posted by ec2biz.com  on  10/02  at  06:37 AM

  5. Great post...very informative and well written!!!

    6. Posted by Raymond Crabtree  on  11/24  at  01:19 PM

  6. You said That there are no portableapps for Linux or Mac; well I found a site for Mac portables and some may work on Linux.
    Try http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps
    Looks like USB Apps maybe for all OSs now.

    7. Posted by Hari Krishan  on  01/31  at  09:57 PM

  7. Hi,

    Nice blog with nice tips as well. I have bookmarked your page. Thanks

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