Haven’t you once in your live felt desperate while visiting relatives or friends or just when using any public computer while on the go, because you had to use the very same build-in software which were sold together with the work station?
Haven’t you ever frantically looked for this familiar Firefox icon, prayed to be able to quickly rework some pics using GIMP, or outrageously cried when you realized that for the next 5 hours of your train trip you won’t be able to watch your favorite series on your brother’s laptop because he has no idea what VLC media player is?
But this dark era might soon be over…
PortableApps.com Suite™ is a complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.
More than 70 applications can be downloaded from portableapps.com to any USB key or any other 256MB+ storage device. Some of the most famous applications available include: full OpenOffice.org Portable, Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird, 7-Zip, GIMP, FileZilla, Pidgin, VLC Media Player, KeePass Password Safe and of course, a portable version of Sudoku…
All those applications are organized under 10 different themes: Accessibility, Development, Education, Games, Graphics&Pictures, Internet, Music&Video, Office, OS and Utilities. So all you have to do is take some time to review this impressive FREE library of applications and download them to your USB key, MP3 player, or mobile phone’s memory.
If you’re not sure of the kind of applications you’d like to start with, you can also download one of the three pre-packaged Suite: Platform only (1.2MB installed), Suite Light (100MB installed ) or Suite Standard (350MB installed) – the only difference between Suite Light and Suite Standard is that the Suite Standard embarks the full OpenOffice suite while Suite Light features AbiWord Portable.
And needless to say that you’ll look REALLY cool and pro when you’ll show (off) how mobile you are. And it shall give your brother and his laptop a break…
Portableapps is a cool place, but also worth to be mentionned : Framasoft’s initiative to launch Framakey, only with Open Source software (most of them being portable).
http://www.framakey.org/
Long live open source software.
BTW – another fantastic resource identified yesterday. Xenocode released several version of software that works as standalone virtualised programs. It’s different from portable program, with the same benefits, plus one : you leave absolutely no trace behind (because the program is virtualized). Plus you can easily personalized you own firefox on your usb key, for instance, and keep it with you, with all the plugin and addons required
http://www.xenocode.com/
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