Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere

museumpeace writes "On his blog, Jeremy Wagstaff makes available a list of the apps now packaged for USB thumbdrives. He also wrote these up in WSJ but that will cost you. My personal favorite is the FireFox in a box...every where I went, I had a different crop of bookmarks, now my browsing is the same wherever I go."

Comments

regarding bookmarks...

[jkakar]

I've recently been using http://del.icio.us combined with a live bookmark in my bookmarks toolbar. Now, on the 3 or 4 machines I used regularly I have centralized access to bookmarks. In my case, this turns out to be less hassle than carrying around a thumb drive.

Re:regarding bookmarks...

[christopherfinke]

I've recently been using http://del.icio.us combined with a live bookmark in my bookmarks toolbar.

You might want to try out Chipmark. It's a service created at the University of Minnesota similar to del.icio.us, but it's open source, and they provide a Firefox/Mozilla extension. It's pretty good, but then again, I might be biased, since I'm part of the development team.

Re:HUGE question about media

[BigZaphod]

VLC comes to mind. I'm pretty sure all the codecs are integrated.

Bookmarks Synchronizer

[fafaforza]

My personal favorite is the FireFox in a box...every where I went, I had a different crop of bookmarks, now my browsing is the same wherever I go.

I prefer Bookmarks Synchronizer. Upload your bookmarks to an ftp server when closing FireFox if bookmarks changed. Download them when starting it back up and the cpies differ. All automatically.

here you go

[sh0rtie]

no registry or local disk writing, plays Xvid/DivX etc, the only thing is a lack of a decent and small filesize gui, but iam sure that will come in time, works great with autorun.inf and (CD|DVD)Rw?

http://csant.info/mplayer

and

http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/

forgot the link

[WankersRevenge]

great for form fields ... http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

This is EXACTLY what my site is all about...

[leftyfb]

http://www.no-install.com/ I just started this site a couple months ago because I could not find any 1 site out there to get portable applications. So I did a little research myself and thought I put them together in 1 place. Feel free to sign up, post links to downloads and/or articles to related news/software/anything.

SpyBot

[Lazyhound]

SpyBot S&D runs fine from a thumbdrive, which tends to come in handy.

Re:I know an Ultaportable App

[Badfysh]

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