Redefining Portability!

Maximize your Thumb drive’s potential!
Redefine the meaning of Portability with tiny little aplications….
This is a world of portability with infinite possibilities! Did you utilize all capabilities of those portable devices? What about your pen drive? What all you do with your pendrive? Answer is simple for most users… use their pendrive for save data, right?? But you can do a lot of with your device.

Did you ever face a situation that your file cannot be opened in another computer because that computer lack of the required software? Did you ever needed to write a CD immediately and you don’t have writing software? Maybe you faced situation that you cannot open the multimedia files in another computer because the host computer don’t satisfy the software requirements. Even you can create a PowerPoint, Word file, excel file without having a MS Office on the host computer!

The solution for all those problems is to install the software into your thumbdrive so that you can access your documents on any computer! So do you think you can install regular MS office package into a 1GB thumbdrive? Then where you get space to save your documents? The solution is to install a lighter version of software to the thumbdrive which weighs less than a few kilobytes!

So I recently find a website (http://portableapps.com/ )which allows us to download free version of those lighter software’s specially designed to work within a thumb drive. Some of the most useful software’s I can find inside the portable apps are:

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go

GIMP Portable
Image editing on the go

Edit your pictures anytime anywhere on any computer. This program allows tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

Audacity Portable
sound editing and recording to go

Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

VLC Media Player Portable
play your media anywhere

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

OpenOffice.org Portable
the complete office suite that's completely portable

OpenOffice.org Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost.

If you have sensitive data in your thubdrive use an encryption software like truecrypt to password protect the thumbdrive. Because once you lose your thumbdrive all your sensitive information will be exposed and may be exploited so always protect it. http://www.truecrypt.org/

Download and install those software’s inside your thumdrive and you will find a new meaning for portability!


There is a lot more software’s available in the website for almost every purpose. So feel free to take a look at http://portableapps.com/apps and explore yourself!