Jay_Stealth Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 (edited) Soon i will be back at UNI and one of the most annoying things is logging on to a generic, locked down computer at uni or the workplace and not being able to do what you sat down to do in the first place. Today i have discovered something that will eliminate that.Portable apps!!What Is A Portable App?portable - carried or moved with easeapp - a computer program like a web browser or word processorA portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind.My Recommended Portable Apps7-ZIP - An archiving toolAbiword - A Microsoft word processing toolClamwin - Portable anti-virus softwareFirezilla - A capable FTP clientFollowMeIPLite - A handy app to display your external ipFoxIt - A portable PDF readerFTP Server Lite - A portable FTP serverGreat News - A highly efficent news/rss readerMiranda - A multi IM + IRC capable clientNVU - Portable web editorVLC - A handy media playerFirefox - Portable firefox. (cont below)---------Pstart - This will sit in your taskbar and act as a handy launcher for all of these tools.You can download of these files ready zipped from hereThen simply install to x:\Apps\ (x being the letter of your portable drive). Load PStart last and add the above applications manually.NB When adding the applications to PStart add the portable version . There will be two different EXE versions of the application I.E. Firefox.exe and Firefox_Portable.exe.Improving Firefox furtherSo now you've made your applications portable, you'll want to take your bookmarks, blog, notebook and everything else with you. These are my suggestions for extensions for Firefox:Fasterfox - Caches and preloads pages thus speeding firefox up. Ability to tweak network settingsFoxmarks - Will store your bookmarks serverside so when you load your portable firefox you will always have your bookmarks!IE Tab - Embeds internet explorer into a Firefox tab for viewing a Firefox incompatible pagePDF Download - Allows you to choose to download the PDF or view it in a tabPerformancing - Allows you to post to your blog(s) from within Firefox!Video Downloader - Allows you to download embedded videoStumble Upon - Will revolutionise the way you surf. Randomly stumbles the net according to your preferencesYou can download all of these zipped from hereGoogle Notebook - Store snippets of information serverside so you always have that important info with you + the choice to make publically available.Available hereGoogle Browser Sync - Will resync your Firefox Tabs. IE. If i browse at home and leave to go to UNI when i load my portable Firefox, the same pages that i were browsing at home would appear!Available herePlease note that when you install these extensions, that you install them to your portable version of firefox and not your local one. Edited September 7, 2006 by Jay_Stealth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I have a USB drive with a ramload tiny 98SE and all my other programs on it. No need to even use the guest computer's OS, I boot from the USB drive and have my own environment to work with (not the best, as the drivers are rather generic and don't produce maximum performance with all hardware). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Fasterfox is bad, and will get you banned from -many- websites due to the "prefetching". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Fasterfox is bad, and will get you banned from -many- websites due to the "prefetching".The IE tweak that removes the connection limit will probably do the same; I keep max connections at 32, but for smaller sites with weaker servers I lower it down to around 10. FlashGet with 255 connections/file is also hated by many sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Two good sites:http://portableapps.com/http://www.portablefreeware.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemax Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 (edited) very very good ... but ... in italian :www.winpenpack.com very complete application [and .. English.. is supported]bye Good people Edited May 2, 2007 by icemax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 here is another:http://www.framakey.org/En/Index Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albator Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 @LLXXI am very interrested about ramload tiny 98SE, How do you do it ? does it work only on a given pc ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 I don't think LLXX lives here any more, so here's some linkshttp://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&...ost&p=98308 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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