I personally am a very big fan of anything that allows you to go mobile. Portable applications are one big step towards it. The benefits are multiple, you can take your applications anywhere, it’s secure, your software is only ever running on your portable drive, you control it, you can take it anywhere, it’s incredibly easy to backup, it runs on almost any windows station in the world, (hardware and os version dependent), I could honestly go on and on. It’s also come in handy when working on someone’s computer and needed to have a piece of software they didn’t have. And the software available is growing every day.

I’m going to try and bring to you as much information as I can on the topic, as well as software updates.

I was first introduced to portable apps about six months ago, and as it stands, I honestly don’t know where I was without it. Now I can go anywhere and bring all my work with me. My own browser, email client, even anti-virus.

Oh and what’ the best thing about all this? It’s 100% free, (so far anyway). The only thing you need is a usb drive, or other portable media.

The majority of my stuff I’ve gotten from www.portableapps.com however there are many other sites out there. This site targets windows users, however there are sites for mac, and sites for linux, (Actually for linux you can download live CD’s and usb versions of the OS).

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