Portable Apps

Now days its really common for people to use more than one computer whether it be at work or school. Transferring files from machines is a common routine as well. With larger files now being used floppies have long been out dated and have given way to flash drives. With this new technology people started to wonder what if we could transfer more than just files. What if we could use programs straight from our keys and not have to hope that the machine you’ll be using has the right programs. The trouble with this is that most windows programs need to access the registry and create files on the hard drive so simply installing a desired program on a flash drive will not work. Some companies, most notably open source, offer portable versions of their software such as revo uninstaller and scribus, but for those companies that don’t, PortableApps.com has edited the source code to many open source programs and released them to the public. One may download their suite, which includes all their portable apps in their own auto run start menu like program, or one can download each program individually. I prefer the latter because that way I won’t have to wait for their menu to load and use up valuable cpu and memory. I don’t have all their apps, I only downloaded the ones I would use at home and at work and I plan on doing a full review on all the ones I use one at a time. The first app to will be reviewed will be Firefox portable and I will post that in the coming days.