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Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-ideas-are-good-ideas dept.

VeryVito writes "Portableapps.com has released Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 -- the complete office suite you can run from a USB drive for complete access to both your files and your office apps -- anywhere you go. More than just a neat idea, some say it's a perfect example of "the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible." I don't imagine we'll see a portable Microsoft Office suite any time soon."

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  1. Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? by trezor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And some people are paranoid.

    Get some sense of proportion. It's a link. It's actually a link to a product you have to buy. And do you honestly believe that there still are people on this planet using computers that haven't heard about MS Office yet?

    Christ. Talk about overreaction.

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  2. Portable Microsoft Office by putko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Microsoft runs an online service, then the browser (modified, perhaps) will be all that will be required to run Office on any computer (with internet connection).

    Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver.

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    1. Re:Portable Microsoft Office by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful
      That presumes people are willing to run their business-critical apps on someone else's remote server. That looks good on paper every time someone proposes it, but Gmail is about the closest I've seen to it actually succeeding.

      I think it may be a while before someone edits CorpFinancialsAndCustomerList.doc at a rented terminal.

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  3. Portable Firefox by bitkari · · Score: 5, Informative

    The perfect partner to Portable OpenOffice might just be Portable Firefox.

    This is very useful for me as I'm otherwise forced to use IE on the university computers. Neat.

  4. Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? by Prospero's+Grue · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why is Taco linking to Microsoft Office's home page? Is there a backhanded deal between Slashdot and Microsoft to covertly promote their software?

    Yeah, that must be it.

    "This OpenOffice story, which focused on a feature it had that MS Office didn't, was brought to you by Microsoft."

    "Microsoft. We're gonna mess with your heads."

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  5. Suite! If I could only work on a beach in Hawaii by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Office? We don't need no office, that is so 20th century. All we need now is a laptop, flash drive and a big umbrella.

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  6. It's all been done before. by RacerZero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remember those application cartridges for the PC Jr. Yea yea laugh it up I had one. And all those other quasi computers with application cartridges?

    Sure this is better but it has been done before.

  7. Author AND reference by Wubby · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, did anyone else notice that the author of this peice, VeryVito, uses himself as a reference. The "some say" link is to his own blog. Come on, if your going to plug yourself, be open about it!

    Oh, and the portable apps site seems to be 403. Slashdotted, maybe?

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  8. Which begs the question by el_womble · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why can't I get from WalMart or Amazon a portable, opensource office suite on a USB key?

    Sell it for $5 more than the cheapest equivalent capacity stick, or about the same as a branded stick and let the profits go to the developers.

    $50 for 512MB portable office is cheap, especially if all a noob has to do to install it is plug it into a USB slot and double click the application. My poorly wired consumer brain is reluctant to shell out for software on a CD, if only becuase they're slow and you know their practically free to make. I'd probably buy an office on a stick because I know if I didn't like the software at least I'd still have something that I still have some use for.

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  9. Site Down, Working On It by CritterNYC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry about the 403, the site didn't handle a full Slashdotting as well as hoped (being on a shared web server, it was slamming the PHP resources). It's actually run on the Drupal open source content management system (Apache+mySQL+PHP). I'm working on having my host get it back up.

    Until then, you can view the Google Cache of the older Portable OpenOffice release and get the new release from the SourceForge Portable OpenOffice.org project page

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  10. More portable apps! by Mr_Whoopass · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a lot more applications that work from a USB key that don't advertise that fact. I will share with you what I currently use on my 1gb USB key and the locations you can download them. Most of these are freeware or relatively cheap shareware. Please help the authors continue their work if you use any of these and make a small donation at their sites if available.

    Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
    This one will run from your key, but it does write to the registry which portable apps should not do. Then again, they don't advertise this as a portable app. Once you use it on a machine and configure it, it will remember your settings on that machine of course. Handy if you are locked down at work from installing software but you need it occasionally.

    Bulk Rename Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/Softwar e_Intro.php
    a utility which allows the rapid renaming of files and folders, based upon flexible selection criteria. Download the zip version for portability.

    FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
    This project is currently dead, but it works from USB wonderfully.

    FoxitReader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/index.php
    A PDF reader that works very quickly (kind of like Adobe used to about 6 years ago).

    Miranda - http://www.miranda-im.org/
    A powerful and flexible multiprotocol IM client with loads of plugins. Download the zip version for portability.

    mIRC - http://www.mirc.com/
    Everyones favorite IRC app. Has always been portable.

    PortableFileZilla - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.

    PortableFirefox - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

    PortableNVU - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable NVU is the easy-to-use NVU web editor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your website on the go.

    PortableOpenOffice - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable OpenOffice.org is the popular OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app

    PortableSunbird - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable Sunbird is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar and task manager packaged as a portable app, so you can take your calendar and to do list with you.

    PortableThunderbird - http://portableapps.com/
    Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

    Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
    Snippy is a small utility that captures an area of your screen to your clipboard to paste into other applications.

    AleJenJes Countdown Timer - http://www.gonebowlin.com/freeware.html
    It is a simple countdown timer where you enter the starting time in hours, minutes & seconds and it counts down to zero. Not needed often, but handy as can be for those few instances you do need one.

    Unit Conversion Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/UCU_Int ro.html
    Unit Conversion U