USB Portable Apps
Soon i will be back at UNI and one of the most annoying things is logging on to a generic, locked down computer at uni or the workplace and not being able to do what you sat down to do in the first place. Today i have discovered something that will eliminate that.Portable apps!!
What Is A Portable App?
portable - carried or moved with ease
app - a computer program like a web browser or word processor
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind.
My Recommended Portable Apps
7-ZIP - An archiving tool
Abiword - A Microsoft word processing tool
Clamwin - Portable anti-virus software
Firezilla - A capable FTP client
FollowMeIPLite - A handy app to display your external ip
FoxIt - A portable PDF reader
FTP Server Lite - A portable FTP server
Great News - A highly efficent news/rss reader
Miranda - A multi IM + IRC capable client
NVU - Portable web editor
VLC - A handy media player
Firefox - Portable firefox. (cont below)
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Pstart - This will sit in your taskbar and act as a handy launcher for all of these tools.
You can download of these files ready zipped from here
Then simply install to x:\Apps\ (x being the letter of your portable drive). Load PStart last and add the above applications manually.
NB When adding the applications to PStart add the portable version . There will be two different EXE versions of the application I.E. Firefox.exe and Firefox_Portable.exe.
Improving Firefox further
So now you've made your applications portable, you'll want to take your bookmarks, blog, notebook and everything else with you. These are my suggestions for extensions for Firefox:
Fasterfox - Caches and preloads pages thus speeding firefox up. Ability to tweak network settings
Foxmarks - Will store your bookmarks serverside so when you load your portable firefox you will always have your bookmarks!
IE Tab - Embeds internet explorer into a Firefox tab for viewing a Firefox incompatible page
PDF Download - Allows you to choose to download the PDF or view it in a tab
Performancing - Allows you to post to your blog(s) from within Firefox!
Video Downloader - Allows you to download embedded video
Stumble Upon - Will revolutionise the way you surf. Randomly stumbles the net according to your preferences
You can download all of these zipped from here
Google Notebook - Store snippets of information serverside so you always have that important info with you + the choice to make publically available.
Available here
Google Browser Sync - Will resync your Firefox Tabs. IE. If i browse at home and leave to go to UNI when i load my portable Firefox, the same pages that i were browsing at home would appear!
Available here
Please note that when you install these extensions, that you install them to your portable version of firefox and not your local one.
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