Comments on: Top Ten Portable Applications

By: Don

Don — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:41:49 +0000

I too use PortableApps.com - and Firefox rocks. I use a 16GB ‘Survivor’ from Corsair and love it.

I tried the Miranda IM client and it didn’t work very well. Computer freezes for 5 seconds at a time when sending and receiving IMs. Pidgin (also available at PortableApps.com) works much better.

The whole concept of Portable Apps is great: no matter which computer I plug my Flash Drive into, I get my bookmarks and saved passwords. Very handy. From the laptop at home to the desktop at work and even in my kids’ laptop (when they want to use mine for heavy duty gaming with BFME2) it all just works.

Going to send a donation to the PortableApps.com guy some day…

By: Sonic Reducer

Sonic Reducer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:58:24 +0000

This list has saved my life hahaha.

By: bradleybradwell

bradleybradwell — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:17:04 +0000

I think that it is very imortant to have portable applications, Even though most people have laptops now days and don’t need the portability of the application, i think it is still good for all of those “old fokes” . The people that still use a desktop computer alot.

By: rushringleader

rushringleader — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:39:02 +0000

Thanks a bunch for the list, I will put it on my flash drive! I also recommend Thunderbird Portable.

By: Denny

Denny — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:34:16 +0000

Portable Opera blows away Portable Firefox and is greased lightening. Import all your IE, Firefox and Opera bookmarks in a jiffy.
Upload your doc files to Office on Line and you won’t have to clutter up your drive with WP files.

By: hichez

hichez — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:58:45 +0000

I love running applications on a USB drive. But It sucks that most of the time only open source programs are made in the portable version. I mean I wouldn’t mind seeing some colsed sourced programs on a portable version

By: PandaPie

PandaPie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:54:14 +0000

I use portable firefox in college. I boot from a USB key cos we’re not allowed install another web browser (or anything for that matter) on the college PCs.

By: leethaxorcodo

leethaxorcodo — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:50:49 +0000

I love portable apps, they help so much when I am on a different computer such as work where I dont have Admin rights, so having a USB thumb stick version of FF for instance is really nice.

By: Kronic

Kronic — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:50:44 +0000

Open Office is a great tools to have portable. It can be handy in any situation..

By: laaabaseball

laaabaseball — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:49:29 +0000

Wow! I agree with everything on this list! These ARE my top 10 favorite portable applications! And i have a cruzer micro drive too! I especially like using a combination of Paint.net and Gimp to do my photos, and I use Firefox and the foxit plugin to surf the web, and I save my bookmarks to the USB stick.

And by the way, if your wondering, yes, I sent this to Chris, and hey, 38 comments so far ain’t bad. I have 3 usb sticks and a 160 GB hardrive, which I clean the double - mp3’s with DoubleKiller. So hey, If you like portable apps like me, download some and try it!

By: Davnes007

Davnes007 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:48:35 +0000

I love it when apps are simple and portable. And, when ever I can, I download a zip file of a program instead of the exe installer. Then, all I have to do is run the app from where ever the heck I want to, instead of from the Program Files directory.

By: insanity54

insanity54 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:47:23 +0000

7-Zip is available as a portable app?

I’ll have to check that out because whenever I do website work for my dad, I have to use his computer (he wants me to use frontpage, because its what he uses… bleh) and he has some annoying (and terrible) ZIP application called ZIP Central. It’s horrible, horrible, horrible.

He doesn’t like me installing new software on his computer, as he is somewhat uncomfortable using open source or free software.

7-Zip in portable form will help me with this problem. I run it on both of my personal computers. It is really nice and stays out of the way until I need it.

By: KrnSidez

KrnSidez — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:46:58 +0000

i personally use FireFox portable, (great application btw) i am thinking about getting miranda. i need to run my im stuff. 0.o

~~~~Google

By: Rafy Mediavilla

Rafy Mediavilla — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:46:04 +0000

@AMD4Life very true TrueCrypt is a good pratable app to protect you stuff on public computers, I use Firefox, NVU, OpenOffice and Fox It Reader allot.

By: Calvin Lortie

Calvin Lortie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:46:03 +0000

Firefox is deffinitely the best. I download things soooo much faster than ie7