www.portableapps.com

If you are like me, you will have loads of applications installed on your computer. I have got OpenOffice, Firefox and a few cute little games.

And you know, when I use someone else's computer or one in the Click office - it really annoys me that they do not all have my favourite apps installed on them.

Well I now have a brilliant way of taking them all with me.

It is called PortableApps and it is basically a suite of free programs which, instead of installing to your computer's hard drive, you install to a portable drive - maybe a USB key ring or other portable storage device.

Then whenever you plug your portable drive into a computer you can run your apps.

It appears as an extremely well presented menu that is accessed from your deskbar and as standard comes with portable versions of programs like OpenOffice and Firefox.

Clicking on one of these will install and run it from your portable drive - no need to install it on the computer itself.

What is also brilliant is that you can download loads more applications from the parent site - anything from games, to magnifying glasses, to photo editing software.

The lite version of the suite is 30MB, the standard version is a heftier 89.5MB - but even that should easily fit on a USB memory stick. And then you just keep adding and adding free software, and take it, and your documents wherever you like.

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