Guest post by Srikanth AD
Portable applications are handy when you are on move and can be run on most of the removable storage media like USB drive, mobile hard disk, iPod etc., Here in this article you will find extremely good 10 portable applications, that are very useful to carry with. If you are interested in application, just click through and you’ll get much more technical info and descriptions there. Hope this will be useful for some people!
OpenOffice.org Portable
OpenOffice Portable is a complete office suit that you can carry on any removable storage media. It includes a Word processor, presentation tool, spreadsheet, drawing package and database put together as a portable app. It enables you to carry your documents and spreadsheets and edit them from anywhere.
Mozilla Firefox Portable
Like the standard version of Firefox, you can install add-ons, extensions, and bookmark web pages in this portable version of Mozilla Firefox. You can save passwords and other browsing history without leaving any trace on other computers. This portable version of Firefox would be handy when you want to browse Internet on a public computer with all your favorite addons and personal settings.
Pidgin Portable Instant messaging client
Pidgin is a portable instant messaging client that supports multiple instant messaging platforms like Yahoo, Jabber, AOL, MSN, etc., With Pidgin you can chat with your friends and carry all your buddy lists with you where ever you are on the move. This is a must have portable applications if you chat regularly with friends.
ClamWin Antivirus Portable
ClamWin Antivirus Portable is the popular ClamWin AntiVirus boxed as a portable application. It enables you to scan files on the go. It’s free and can be deployed on any of the removable storage media and used on any computer without leaving any traces of personal information.
VLC Media Player
Using this application you can play video and audio files on the move. It supports DVD and other streaming protocols such that you can view movies and listen to music on any computer with ease.
ImgBurn Portable
This is a portable application using which you can burn DVD, CD, HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. It will prove very useful when you want to burn your data from a computer on to optical discs. ImgBurn Portable supports many file structures such that you can create the disc according to your needs.
Notepad++
This is one the most used application by any programmer to edit programs. Using this application you can edit program files like Java, C, C++, Pascal, etc., At first look, this application looks just like a simple text editor but with the syntax highlighting feature and other handy features it is more than a text editor. Using this application you can modify, edit or create a program easily on any computer.
ToDoList Resources
This is one of the best application to manage your tasks daily. Using this application you can create tasks and even sub divide the tasks to make it easily manageable. All the tasks are saved in an .xml format so that you can view or take a print of the tasks whenever you want.
Recuva
Using this application you can recover data that has been deleted due to a computer crash, a virus or malware. This application even helps you to recover any deleted data on media storage devices as well.
GIMP Portable
GIMP Portable is a portable version of the popular image editing software GIMP. It enables you to carry your images with you and do editing on the move. It can be used to convert between image formats, photo retouching, image compression etc based on your needs.
This is actually the first Guest article here – big thanks to Srikanth for contributing! May be shorter than usual posts, but let’s take this one as exception and remember good deed. And as always, if you know some more great apps, please – feel free and add your opinion in comments, will be much appreciated!
(*edited by Dainis Graveris).
Guest blogger Srikanth writes on Tech Inspiration blog about tips, gadgets, and technology. You can also check out his blog or Linkedin Profile for more information.
<em>Guest post by <a href=”http://www.ekoob.com” target=”_blank”>Srikanth AD</a></em> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>Portable applications are handy when you are on move and can be run on most of the removable storage media like USB drive, mobile hard disk, iPod etc., Herein are ten portable applications that are very useful to carry with.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>OpenOffice.org Portable</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>openoffice-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>OpnOffice Portable is a complete office suit that you can carry on any removable storage media. It includes a Word processor, presentation tool, spreadsheet, drawing package and database put together as a portable app. It enables you to carry your documents and spreadsheets and edit them from anywhere.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>Mozilla Firefox Portable</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>mozilla-firefox-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>Like the standard version of Firefox, you can install add-ons, extensions, and bookmark web pages in this portable version of Mozilla Firefox. You can save passwords and other browsing history without leaving any trace on other computers. This portable version of Firefox would be handy when you want to browse Internet on a public computer with all your favorite addons and personal settings.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>Pidgin Portable Instant messaging client</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>pidgin-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>Pidgin is a portable instant messaging client that supports multiple instant messaging platforms like Yahoo, Jabber, AOL, MSN, etc., With Pidgin you can chat with your friends and carry all your buddy lists with you where ever you are on the move. This is a must have portable applications if you chat regularly with friends.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>ClamWin Antivirus Portable</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>clamwin-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>ClamWin Antivirus Portable is the popular ClamWin Antrivirus boxed as a portable app. It enables you to scan files on the go. It’s free and can be deployed on any of the removable storage media and used on any computer without leaving any traces of personal information.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable”><strong>VLC Media Player</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><em>vlc-media-player-portable.png</em><strong> </strong> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>Using this application you can play video and audio files on the move. It supports DVD and other streaming protocols such that you can view movies and listen to music on any computer with ease.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/CD-DVD-Tools/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-ImgBurn.shtml” target=”_blank”><strong>ImgBurn Portable</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>imgburn-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>This is a portable application using which you can burn DVD, CD, HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. It will prove very useful when you want to burn your data from a computer on to optical discs. ImgBurn Portable supports many file structures such that you can create the disc according to your needs.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/development/notepadpp_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>Notepad++</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>notepadpp-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>This is one the most used application by any programmer to edit programs. Using this application you can edit program files like Java, C, C++, Pascal, etc., At first look, this application looks just like a simple text editor but with the syntax highlighting feature and other handy features it is more than a text editor. Using this application you can modify, edit or create a program easily on any computer.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html” target=”_blank”><strong>ToDoList Resources</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>This is one of the best application to manage your tasks daily. Using this application you can create tasks and even sub divide the tasks to make it easily manageable. All the tasks are saved in an .xml format so that you can view or take a print of the tasks whenever you want.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://www.recuva.com/download/builds” target=”_blank”><strong>Recuva</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><em>recuva-portable.png</em></p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>Using this application you can recover data that has been deleted due to a computer crash, a virus or malware. This application even helps you to recover any deleted data on media storage devices as well.</p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable” target=”_blank”><strong>GIMP Portable</strong></a></p> <p style=”text-align: left;”><em>gimp-portable.jpg</em><strong> </strong> <p style=”text-align: justify;”>GIMP Portable is a portable version of the popular image editing software GIMP. It enables you to carry your images with you and do editing on the move. It can be used to convert between image formats, photo retouching, image compression etc based on your needs.</p> <p style=”text-align: justify;”><em>Guest blogger Srikanth writes on <a href=”http://www.ekoob.com/tag/twitter” target=”_blank”>Tech Inspiration</a> blog about tips, gadgets, and technology. You can also</em><em> check out his </em><em> <a href=”http://srikanth.techonaut.com/about” target=”_blank”>blog</a></em><em> or </em><em><a href=”http://www.linkedin.com/in/srikanthad” target=”_blank”>Linkedin Profile</a></em><em> for more information.</em></p>
yeah its better to have portable application than the other because the size is lesser than the installed one. there are a lot of portable applications available online and most of it are free.
webdesign´s last blog ..Professional Mechanical Engineer Results (December 2009 )
Notepadd++ is very useful for web designers.
laptop tamiri
nerden´s last blog ..Netbook fiyatına laptop
Good list of applications. I have 4 app. i’ll install rest of all. Thanks.
I need this type of application, it may helpful to all. Thanks for sharing.
Veri Nice…..( Cene Estetiği ) ( Botox Fiyatları ) ( Kepçe Kulak ) Thanks for Doc….
Gögüs Estetiği´s last blog ..Meme Ucu Problemleri
Thanks for sharing great useful portable applications here Good effort.
This is a great resource list. I have bookmarked it in firefox.
I am commenting to ask what is the name of the plugin you use for your “about author” blurb under your related posts? I have done a similar thing on my blog but I did it by editing my single.php file. Please email me with the plugin name if you can. If not I’ll be back to check out more of your articles. Thanks
Thank you very much. Very useful!
OpenOffice and Gimp will be on my next installation for my external hard disk. Thanks for the list.
[...] 10 applications portables à posséder d’urgence via 1stWebDesigner [...]
[...] 1rstWebDesigner han hecho una recopilación bastante útil para quienes quieren tener en sus computadoras los programas portables más útiles que van [...]
Thanks to Srikanth for such a wonderful collection of portable applications and thanks to Dainis for sharing this with us :). You guys rock !!
I use the second and the VlC player applications frequently, then some others like open office and notepad++ I’ve used earlier. Wasn’t even knowing about some of them ;-) lol
Web Application Development´s last blog ..Don’t Litter on Twitter
[...] extraíbles, como unidad USB, disco duro móvil, iPod etc, por lo tanto en el artículo 10 Must Have Portable Applications, de 1stwebdesigner, encontraremos 10 aplicaciones portátiles, que son muy útiles para llevar a [...]
useful apps thanks for share..
Nice list. I use Google Calendar. So apps like to-do list resources are not required.
And thanks for Recuva. Didn’t know about it.
AbhiTechBlog´s last blog ..Tweetmeme Gets All New Look and Features
[...] Advertisement 10 Must Have Portable Applications [...]
Muy buen blog de diseño! great blog! thanks from Argentina.
ImgBurn is definitely useful to have on a USB drive, you never know when you’ll need to burn an ISO image. Plus, Firefox is nice at work
Jake Rocheleau´s last blog ..Interview with Digg-Clone for Designers DesignBump
[...] DIRECT LINK » [...]
Useful as always, thanks.
useful apps thanks for share..
joyoge designers’ bookmark´s last blog ..Beautiful Gradient Effects On Web design – Research: Part 2
Hi Dainix,
Most pro’s use PS. Mt husband does,also. I just dabble with stuff.Another program that is useful is Faststone.
Hope you have a great weekend.
BunnygotBlog´s last blog ..Advertising Towards Dummies: Interview With An Advertising Professional
May also want to add xamp or inkscape or fireftp or putty portables.
Online TV´s last blog ..Long Overdue
@GuY McDowell definitely agree with you :) Though I am not so familiar with that much more technical apps :)
@Phaoloo yes, I must agree with you, really must have one :)
@BunnyGotBlog great, I am not using Gimp myself though..I am addicted PS user :)
I have Gimp installed on my computer and most of the other ones.Recuva is something I may look into.
Thanks for the heads up.
BunnygotBlog´s last blog ..Advertising Towards Dummies: Interview With An Advertising Professional
Great list!
If I can add to the list, I would add ThunderBird. It’s a great email client which may help you manage multiple accounts at once.
Phaoloo´s last blog ..Move The Large File Quickly Using Mass File Mover
Nice list. Although I think things like OpenOffice.org and GIMP are best installed right on your computer. Almost any computer you use is going to have some sort of office app on it already. Same with VLC and ImageBurn Portable.
Things like ClamWin, Recuva and other computer maintenance utilities are definitely a must!
Guy McDowell´s last blog ..Rugged HD Movie Playing Hard Drive from LaCie