Free Portable Applications For Your USB Flash Drives
Written by S.Pradeep Kumar in Desktop Apps - Print This Post
A Portable Program is a software program which you can install it on any portable device. For eg :- USB Stick and you can carry this stick wherever you go. The main advantage of portable application is that it copies all the system files in the portable device during installation and usage so when you unplug the portable device all your data remain with you.
The Portable Application could be anything like Office utilities, email client, browser etc. I am going to list some popular portable application which can prove very handy in daily use. With the help of these Portable applications you can have your whole office and entertainment data in your USB Drives ready to get accessed on any computer.
Office Utilities
AbiWord : AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Foxit PDF Reader : With over 50 million users all over the World, Foxit is the small and fast PDF viewer
OpenOffice : A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. It has all important office features like word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases etc.
Instant Messaging Clients
Pidgin : Pidgin Portable is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that works with AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and more.
Trillian : Trillian is a multi-client application that allows you to connect to Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and IRC in one program.
Miranda : Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more.
Web Browsers
Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition : Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more.
Opera@USB : A powerful and portable web browser based on Opera.
Portable Chrome : Portable version of the popular Google Chrome Web Browser also known as Chromium.
Media Players
VLC Media Player Portable : VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go.
SMPlayer : SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.
Ubiquitous Player : Ubiquitous Player is All-In-One multimedia player, web browser, image viewer, text editor and file manager.
Antivrus/Firewall Software
Antivir : Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.
Avast! Virus Cleaner : Avast! Virus Cleaner is available free for every user. This tool will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer.
Dr.WEB CureIt : Easy to use free curing utility to clean your computer infected with viruses and various unwanted codes by the Dr.Web Anti-virus updated once or several times an hour.
ClamWin Portable : ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine
Multi Virus Cleaner : This Program is Stand Alone Utility boasts a fast, user-friendly scanner that requires minimal processing power and is an excellent choice for repairing a compromised system.
Email Clients
Mozilla Thunderbird : Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more.
Koma-Mail : Koma-Mail does not need an installation, so that you can run Koma-Mail from your flash drive but, of course, also on your desktop.
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Great list
Gagandeep Singh , one of my friend had written a post in my site about how to create portable application using winrar
http://tech18.com/create-portable-applications-using-winrar.html
I hope this helps everybody
Cheers Pradeep
Thanks. for positive comments,bookmarked your blogpost , will read it soon
Regards
Gagan
Thanks for sharing Sunil !
Credits and compliments for this article goes to Gagan !
Thanks GAGAN! Its nice to see you here! And thanks for the great list you have made available.
And also check his recent article “How to impress a Geek guy? ” !
Cool one…
Thanks Tech-Freak, i am really happy to be a part of your community , ( I love to be with geeks ) liked your post “10 reasons why you should go for geek ” lolz
hey Gagan,
Nice list, some of them are already on my flash drive but definitely try some new one from media side like SMPlayer.
I found the web browsers thing very useful, thanks Gagan !
This is really nice Free Portable Applications For our USB Flash Drives!! Mostly I am using Web Browsers and Antivrus/Firewall Softwares ! but now I will use more other Application also! Thank you very much for sharing such a useful information.
Also try Portable Media players dude, they are cool !
Nice list dude…. Keep it up.
Yeah, nice list and glad to see you here Chetan !
Great work Gagan, It would be time consuming to find so many applications. Really useful post.
Yeah Ruchi, I found many interesting portable apps here, glad you also enjoyed it !
Great share GAGAN. There are many such applications.
Thanks Gagan for this great list of Portable Apps !
The list is really informative.I always felt the need of getting as much portable as I could.Finally I can bank on this list.Thanks for the useful information.
Yeah, I’m also. I use lot of portable apps now-a-days !
very nice, and gain some new tips.
Happy to know this article is beneficial to you SriGanesh!
Great link Pradeep. Thanks.
Glad you like it Anish !
I tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.
http://www.ssuitesoft.com
Thanks for sharing dude ! Will chk it..
Thanks for Ubiquitous Player. I am going to check it out.
Glad you found this list useful Pallab, and do let us know how Ubiquitous Player works ! Cheers !
Good one! I am going to make my own list which could help in blogging, Windows live writer could also be portable. Thanks Gagan.
Yup, Windows Live Writer will be an excellent portable application !
Nice one.. But we can also use “Portable apps” full collections to be installed in USB..
Its very usefull
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I like portable app, because simple and we do not need to install to use it
Well, Your lists of apps are really useful. It helped me saved a lot of time. Thanks for sharing this great article.