Make Your Applications Portable On A Stick
May 9th, 2009 | 
Author: Being an IT administrator, I have always wanting to make life simpler for myself; i.e. to carry my programs (or program files) and use them whenever I go.
A laptop is a good mobility tool but sometimes you can’t possibly use it at work or carry it everywhere ( do note my Lenovo is like 3kg and the battery life last for about an hour and a half on full charge).
Though this is a laptop blog, I would also like to share with you technologies that can be made much more simpler for us users.
I’ve recently made my imation Flash Go! USB drive a portable application.
To make my explanation sounds simpler, I can now run my office suite, browser, chat program, media player, password manager tool, anti-virus, pdf reader, e-mail client and much more … all from my USB thumbdrive.
That’s a lot of stuffs there and my thumdrive is only 4 Gb, so how is this possible?
Firstly you go PortableApps.com .
This is website dedicated to making program applications portable. By downloading the software to your USB thumbdrive, you can run a whole list of applications and the good thing is that it doesn’t write any registry items on the main dektop or laptop registry settings.
There will be 3 choices for you to choose …. the platform only ( Portable Apps menu) or the the Suite lite or the Suite standard which includes the Portable Apps menu and a whole list of applications like Open Office, Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, Pidgin (the universal chat tool), Sumatra PDF reader and much more.
Best of all, it is free.
To find how you can install this application, check this video below.
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Important information, very glad you posting this. I enjoy learning new things everyday so I like subscribing to blogs like yours. Charles
In my job I also have to be mobile and to have computer all the time with me. Fortunately, today we have more and more tinny laptops, so called netbooks. A tinny MSN works good for me!
Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.
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Hi nadja , thanks for the comment . Portable apps are the way to go these days though some apps don’t work too well once it becomes portable …