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5 Free Portable Apps for Mac
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Thursday July 8, 2010
The Sweet Stuff: Software
Thursday July 8, 2010
When you travel, it's nice if you don't have to drag along your laptop. Portable apps ensure you're never without your settings, your search history, your bookmarks, your contacts or your preferred work flows, even when you're away from your home or office computer. You can plug your USB drive into any computer and get instant access to your preferred applications, and everything - including cookies, browser history etc.- is saved securely on your USB key. Slick.
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Show Notes
- Portable applications are specially designed versions of programs you know and love.
- Portable applications can be installed on any removable media.
- While they are most often installed on portable USB drives, they can also be installed on a DVD, for example.
- The benefit of portable applications is that they leave no trace on the host computer they are used on.
- Portable OpenOffice
- Gives you all the functions but keeps configuration on portable media.
- Take documents with you.
- Use it on any Mac OS X computer.
Portable Adium
- Contact friends from any Mac OS X computer.
- Your Adium is all set up and ready to go.
- Leaves no information on host computer.
- When you unplug, everything goes with you.
Portable Firefox
- Take all your bookmarks with you.
- Have your favorite add-ons already in place.
- Just like browsing form your home copy of Firefox.
- Leaves no traces on host computer.
Portable Gimp
- Lets you edit images on the go.
- Great for editing photos while you're on vacation.
- Leaves no trace behind.
Portable Nvu
- Great for editing your Web pages while you're on the go.
- Edit pages and upload them to your Web sites.
- Has all the features of the regular version.
- You don't leave any junk on the host computer.
- Portable applications can be installed on any removable media.
- While they are most often installed on portable USB drives, they can also be installed on a DVD, for example.
- The benefit of portable applications is that they leave no trace on the host computer they are used on.
- Portable OpenOffice
- Gives you all the functions but keeps configuration on portable media.
- Take documents with you.
- Use it on any Mac OS X computer.
Portable Adium
- Contact friends from any Mac OS X computer.
- Your Adium is all set up and ready to go.
- Leaves no information on host computer.
- When you unplug, everything goes with you.
Portable Firefox
- Take all your bookmarks with you.
- Have your favorite add-ons already in place.
- Just like browsing form your home copy of Firefox.
- Leaves no traces on host computer.
Portable Gimp
- Lets you edit images on the go.
- Great for editing photos while you're on vacation.
- Leaves no trace behind.
Portable Nvu
- Great for editing your Web pages while you're on the go.
- Edit pages and upload them to your Web sites.
- Has all the features of the regular version.
- You don't leave any junk on the host computer.
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