Tag: PORTABLEAPPS

The latest development snapshot of Opera, 11.01-1179, has finally added support for portable installation into a Mac OS X environment. This effectively means that you can now install and run Opera for Mac from a USB stick or an encrypted disk image. Full instructions are available after the break, and keep in mind that you will still be able to install Opera into Applications as before -- it's ...

If you're not the type to install beta software on your computer, or you're at work and unable to install software, grab Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 4.0 Beta 1! I've only tested it for a few minutes, but it seems to be fully-featured and as fast as the real deal (which you can download here). The only difference is that it doesn't require installation, so you can run it from a USB memory ...

John T. Haller's Portable Apps suite sets the standard when it comes to one-stop-shopping for programs for your USB flash drive. Today on the official Platform blog, Haller has shared details and screenshots of the upcoming 2.0 release -- and it's looking good. Currently in beta for about two more weeks, the final release is slated for some time later this month. Among the improvements you'll ...

The PortableApps suite has always been one of the most popular (and useful) downloads around for your USB flash drive. Yesterday, project lead John T. Haller announced the addition of multiple profile support to the suite's trio of Mozilla apps -- Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird. Adding multiple profile support is as simple as running an additional PortableApps .paf.exe for each app (here's ...

PortableApps provides portable versions of popular applications including Firefox, OpenOffice, Pidgin, GIMP, VLC, and FileZilla. By portable, I mean no installation is necessary. You can run these applications by unpacking them to a hard drive, USB flash drive, or other removable media and clicking an executable file, which makes them easy to carry on a flash drive and use on multiple computers. ...

Portable applications suites are a great way to get your hands on a ton of useful software with minimal fuss. Got a new flash drive, or maybe an old one you don't know what to do with? Throw one of these suites on it and you've got an instant software Swiss Army Knife. PortableApps.com - John T. Haller's project is the most well-known suite on the 'net. It includes Firefox, OpenOffice (or AbiWord ...

I'm a big fan of John T. Haller's Portable Apps.com, and I was very excited by one of the apps that appeared in its RSS feed last night: AppCompactor. It is, of course, portable, open source, and designed to integrate with the PortableApps suite. AppCompactor fuses UPX (for exe, dll, and other binary files) and 7zip (for jar and zip files) to compress portable applications. Not surprisingly, ...

My flash drive works pretty hard, so I've spent a lot of time gathering a reliable, powerful set of portable tools that allow me to work hard and play hard, even if I can't do it on my own PC. Here are two dozen apps that I always have at the ready. Encryption Truecrypt - Why is TrueCrypt first on the list? Simple. A multi-gig, easy-to-lose, unencrypted drive with your data on it is a ...

If you use have a handful of portable apps on a thumb drive you'll appreciate the portable start menu. Developed by Aignesberger Software GmbH, portable start menu will scan your thumb drive for all your executables and create a start menu accessible from your system tray. Portable start menu can also be configured to auto run applications when the thumb drive is inserted as well as close out all ...

For those Mac users jealous of the helpful Portable Apps Suite for Windows, the Free Open Source Software Mac User Group (FreeSMUG) has a similar solution called FSuite CD. The application pack comes with a bunch of portable Mac applications for easy mobility of many necessary programs, and it runs on PPC and Intel hardware. The FSuite CD image includes the installers of over 40 portable apps. In ...

Those folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable version was available for download. Actually, it might have been available immediately, but we didn't think to look for it until a few hours had passed. What exactly is a portable app? Well, in Windows, it basically means a version of an application that doesn't need to be ...

We love portable applications. You know, the kind that you can run from a single executable file without installing them to your computer. There's no need to uninstall portable applications you're not using. You can just delete them. And they don't make crazy changes to your Windows registry. Best of all, you can run them from removable media like a USB flash drive. There a couple of great ...

Do you use Windows Live Writer to update your blog at home, but wish you had it on the go. Of course the simplest solution is to get a laptop and carry it around with you everywhere. But if you'd rather not lug a 6 pound machine and 23 pounds of accessories in a bag, you can install Windows Live Writer to a flash drive and run it from pretty much any PC. Microsoft doesn't officially release a ...

Ah, glorious portable apps. Even better, a whole suite of glorious free portable apps all wrapped up in one package? Going on the road for the holidays and want to take your desktop--but not your computer--with you? The PortableApps Suite version 1.0 has been released and it's definitely something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The suite comes in two flavors: Standard edition fits ...

Fast on the heels of the 1.5.0.5 Firefox service release, PortableApps (a group dedicated to creating USB Key based version of popular open source applications) has announced an updated and expanded version of Portable Firefox. The new version, renamed "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition" is the result of close work between PortableApps and the Mozilla development team and offers a laundry list of ...