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Portable USB apps suite

Posted in Random, Tech by Derek at 3:10 pm
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Being constantly on the move, and somewhat lazy [with pulling out my own laptop], I often find myself sitting in front of public terminals or school computers. Oftentimes these machines are downright disappointing with the “suite” of applications that they offer users. On top of that, these machines often lack a sense of “security” when compared to any other machines [not accessible to random strangers].

Fortunately, modern day amenities offer a certain luxury unheard of 5-6 years ago. USB flash / thumbdrives can be purchased from just about any store these days (at affordable prices). There is no excuse not to have one for transporting documents or other items worth sharing with others.

To squash the problem of insecurity or usable application withdrawal, Portable Apps offers its suite of applications easily stored within a USB flash drive. Download your copy today and enjoy true mobility with applications that actually offer some value and usefulness to your daily mobile lives: Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird, Nvu, Filezilla, and OpenOffice to name a few.

Quit settling for public terminals which offer immense options for browsing: Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer, or Internet Explorer. I fail to recognize the reason why computer admins fail to install browsers such as Firefox on public machines.

My closing question, what thumbdrive to you rely on for quick file transfers? I’ve relied on Box.net for storing a copy of Portable Firefox for too long. It’s time to find something to move with.

7 Responses to “Portable USB apps suite”

  1. alexcotterilldrew says:

    Good Find Derek, iv been looking for an english alternative to penpack that isnt too meaty. thumbs up

  2. Chad says:

    awesome find… I can’t count the number of times I have needed an FTP app and had to use the clunky windows FTP client to get files from one place to another… I will be sure to through these on a thumb drive and attach it to my keychain ;)

  3. Nic says:

    Not for Mac??? What a waste of a post.

  4. Derek says:

    Nic, we have to help our Windows users counterparts whenever possible ;)

    If you want a copy of portable Firefox for OSX, check here.

  5. Nic says:

    danke shane :)

  6. On my pendrive I have OS X and windows VNC clients – then wherever I am I can use my own computer!

  7. Stephen says:

    these apps have been around for several months now. there are even OS X ports that I myself use in school, seeing how the highschools in robertson county are so restrictive, that they even learned a trick I used as paperstaff tech to disable apps quickly. but back to the apps, they are soo great, that i use them much more often, and don’t even install the actual apps to my computers anymore.

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