Today, most applications are very ‘portable’
friendly unlike in the past where applications were as machine
dependent as an OS. Well, here I’ve compiled a list of six applications
you should have on your portable device. All these applications are
non-machine dependant and do not require installation.
It’s always nice to have your favorite browser
with you wherever you go with the bookmarks, history, settings, plugins
(and the list goes on) you prefer. With the light system resources it
consumes depending little on the registry even when installed I doubt
it’s that hard to create a completely portable non-machine dependant
version of it. That’s what
PortableApps and
Mark J Cranehas done. Both applications does the job and function differently but
both versions of it are completely standalone, not machine dependant
and does not synchronize with the host’s installed Firefox in any way.
Mark’s Firefox is named
Mobile Firefox and John’s (from Portable Apps) Firefox is named
Firefox Portable.
After some rigorous testing with both Apps the Firefox from
PortableApps turned out to be better and I really recommend using that
one (no offence to Mark), mainly because of bugs in Mobile Firefox, a
few of the bugs being the inability of automatic updating and restoring
tabs from previous sessions.
Also, the portable version could be useful if you
are on your home computer as well, specially if you don’t have your own
Notebook and share a family PC as it acts as a separate browser
allowing more personalization just the way you want it.
Well, don’t get disheartened too fast Opera fans!
There’s a portable version for Opera as well and it’s just as good in
terms of portability. I’ve used this as well and found no problems. You
can get it from
here.
It has the U3 version as well as just the portable version for regular
non U3 drives. I also found a new portable Opera apparently at
kejut.com. I haven’t tested it but based on the comments on the site it looks like it’s good to go.
Well, Adobe may be having a Google PR of 10 but
believe it or not I’ve seen quite a few PC’s occasionally without a PDF
reader installed, so you might want to just have the
portable version of Foxit on your storage device. I’ve used the portable version of Foxit which you can download at
Sourceforge and it works fine.
Have two one GB USB sticks and need a file which is 1GB plus? Not to worry! With
The File Splitteryou can easily split files and join them back just like that! This 70
KB completely portable application splits a file and in the process
creates a separate EXE to join the files back again.
VLC is one of the best media players out there
which plays virtually any file. Having it on your portable device can
come in real handy, you wouldn’t have to worry about downloading codecs
wherever you go with this under your belt.
VLC portable again can be downloaded from
PortableApps.
(I could safely say) WinRAR is the best
compression utility out there, its RAR format compresses way more than
the ZIP format does and compression is relatively faster. Unfortunately
some people prefer to stick with Winzip and other compression utilities
which are just not there yet when it comes to file compression as
WinRAR is. With
WinRAR Unplugged you can use WinRAR with the same functionality as you would have as when it is installed on your computer.
Well, those are six applications you should be
having on your portable device. There are tons more you could get but
these six are quite essential and its recommended you use them if you
have a portable storage device.
Here are some other resources where you could get tons more portable applications:
Portable applications is pretty much a broad topic so I should be talking more about them in the future so just hang on there!
Certified MusicLover
Subject: Six Must Have Applications For Your Portable Storage Device 
Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:13 am
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