I’ve been enjoying a wide variety of software modded to work off of a USB flash drive for a while now. Nothing new with these either…I was just grabbing the latest versions for my new stick.
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Tired of not having your bookmarks or favorite websites? Or your contact lists? Sure you can access them from the web, but then you leave cookies and passwords on computers that aren’t yours. Portable Apps solve these problems, and then some.
There’s free and portable versions of FileZilla (FTP), Firefox (browser), Gaim (IM), Thunderbird (email), Audacity (audio editing), VNC MediaPlayer (audio/video player), 7-Zip (compresson Zip/RAR), and ClamWin (antivirus for your USB stick), just to name a few.
OpenOffice.Org has a portable version as well, but I’m assuming that most places that have a PC have some kind of word processor, and your “real” docs probably aren’t much to worry about.
I’ve been carrying around a 1GB flash stick with those apps wherever I go. At worse, I’ve been able to connect to my FTP site with one click and grab any docs that I didn’t have with me.
Good stuff, you cheap bastard.
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