As a second part of the original post Portable Apps - All you need is a USB, I am trying to summarize few more applications that can help you in your day-to-day chores. And I cannot emphasize more on having a portable email client that suits all your needs!
John Haller loves to build portable applications. His next gift to us is Portable Thunderbird. Mozilla's original ThurnderBird is a wonderful open-source cum freeware application, a great alternative to Microsoft's Outlook. The portable version works like a charm.
Feel like having a calender to keep yourself scheduled?! No worries fellas! Portable Sunbird is right here. I thought the Sunbird project was long dead. But it was a pleasant surprise to see this application.
How can you imagine a computer without virus...errr...anti-virus application?! Clamwin Portable is there to rescue. Sweet part is that although it's portable installation, it updates virus definitions everytime you use it.
I would be worried about spywares-adwares more than virus today. I have tried and succesfully used Spybot from a USB stick. It is a simple trick, where I installed both on a USB stick instead of a local program file folder on the hard drive. Next time I had to use it, all I had to do was click the .exe on the stick. There are few more such applications available like X-RayPC but I have never used it before.
FloppyFW is a portable firewall application you might want to consider.
For an alternative web browser, you can always try Portable Opera. Many many people consider Opera far better browser in the universe.
Putty is a freeware SSH client. It is a tiny .exe file that you can run to connect to a remote server. It is really cool toy.
Along with GAIM, you can use Portable Google Talk as a chat client. I found this 20 MB CrazyPack, which included many cool small apps that you can use on USB. Most of them are listed here already.
I think you can also use uTorrent as a portable application. But I am not too sure about it.
Purplenova is a very good web server you can run off your USB.
If downloading and installing each application separately is a pain for you, you can also download another package called Pensuite. It comes in different varieties as per the usage and size.
If you intend to rely this much on USB sticks, you must read PCStat's USB Data Recovery Guide. Things can go wrong anytime as USBs are flash drives. You should be prepared for a rainy day anytime.
Here is a nice article I found about setting up all these portable apps. Hope it is helpful.
John Haller loves to build portable applications. His next gift to us is Portable Thunderbird. Mozilla's original ThurnderBird is a wonderful open-source cum freeware application, a great alternative to Microsoft's Outlook. The portable version works like a charm.
Feel like having a calender to keep yourself scheduled?! No worries fellas! Portable Sunbird is right here. I thought the Sunbird project was long dead. But it was a pleasant surprise to see this application.
How can you imagine a computer without virus...errr...anti-virus application?! Clamwin Portable is there to rescue. Sweet part is that although it's portable installation, it updates virus definitions everytime you use it.
I would be worried about spywares-adwares more than virus today. I have tried and succesfully used Spybot from a USB stick. It is a simple trick, where I installed both on a USB stick instead of a local program file folder on the hard drive. Next time I had to use it, all I had to do was click the .exe on the stick. There are few more such applications available like X-RayPC but I have never used it before.
FloppyFW is a portable firewall application you might want to consider.
For an alternative web browser, you can always try Portable Opera. Many many people consider Opera far better browser in the universe.
Putty is a freeware SSH client. It is a tiny .exe file that you can run to connect to a remote server. It is really cool toy.
Along with GAIM, you can use Portable Google Talk as a chat client. I found this 20 MB CrazyPack, which included many cool small apps that you can use on USB. Most of them are listed here already.
I think you can also use uTorrent as a portable application. But I am not too sure about it.
Purplenova is a very good web server you can run off your USB.
If downloading and installing each application separately is a pain for you, you can also download another package called Pensuite. It comes in different varieties as per the usage and size.
If you intend to rely this much on USB sticks, you must read PCStat's USB Data Recovery Guide. Things can go wrong anytime as USBs are flash drives. You should be prepared for a rainy day anytime.
Here is a nice article I found about setting up all these portable apps. Hope it is helpful.
More Links:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php
Check out this list as well: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/20213
Category:
portable applications
USB
spyware
computers
browsers
Turbo Tagger
http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php
Check out this list as well: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/20213
Category:
portable applications
USB
spyware
computers
browsers
Turbo Tagger
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