Free Software: Portable Applications

The applications I'm posting on today are totally free software that you can keep on your flash drive. The inspiration for this post came from Dilip Acharya, pictured here, and his post http://dacharya.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-on-go-surf-anonymously-and-do-more.html - I encourage you to read his article, as I'm not going into the topics he expounded on. Don't miss him if you want to know how to surf annonymously on the web.

It's in Italian, but http://www.winpenpack.com/main/news.php packages groups of programs together for download to your flash device, including essentials, personal, and the web. FileZilla, an FTP program; Mozilla Firefox, a web browser; OpenOffice.org, a comprehensive office suite; these and more are found in all the sites discussed today.

Exclusively for Mac OS X is http://osxportableapps.sourceforge.net/, at last count sporting 26 applications that you can load on a flash drive. I should point out that you can not only use a flash drive, but a memory card, iPod, portable hard drive - any of these will hold these programs and you can take them with you wherever you go. You can store your data on them, too!

http://www.portableapps.com might be your choice if the Italian site offers programs differing from your desires, but be sure to check out http://www.pendriveapps.com - a wealth of information and descriptions of the software featured abound.

For further information read Online-Tech-Tips blog of June 25th. There's another great article on portable applications.