Portable Apps

My job has recently required me to use my pen drive an increasing amount. While even the neatest folder layout makes things simple nothing is as good as this application I've been playing with. Free and downloadable from PortableApps.com is a fantastic start menu for your USB drive. If you use your drive for repairing other's PC's or just to transfer files it makes sense to stick a nice UI into the mix.

This would be useful on any USB storage device including external hard drives. Applications that are not designed for the program but run standalone can easily be added to the menu including installers. Programs designed to work with this software will save all their data to the USB device so alterations such as adding bookmarks will appear on every PC.

For web developers this would be a god send as you can install XAMPP (apache, php, perl, mysql + more) onto the drive and run Adobe Dreamweaver Portable from menu. This would make your USB device a full web server and editing suite.

I give this software a firm 10/10.

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