Portable Applications

Have you ever wished you could take your favorite applications with you to work, or anywhere else? You should checkout PortableApps.com. Use Firefox? Got to the site, download the Portable version of Firefox, install it on your USB Flash drive and your're good to go!

You can carry a number of essential applications with you on your pendrive, such as a Microsoft Office substitue called OpenOffice- which can open and save Office files such as Word (*.doc). Some others: ClamWin AntiVirus, Filezilla, GIMP, Thunderbird, VLC Player, WinWGet, etc.

Once you run any of these Portable applications made from Open Source software, all your settings and files stay on your're USB instead of the computer you're working at which is good from a security/privacy standpoint.

(c) [mercnet]