Portable Softwares

Keep changing your computers quite often? Love to customize your desktop and looking out for options to take your softwares anywhere you go? How would it be to carry your messenger with you, go to any machine with an internet connection and use ur own messenger which is in your USB drive, chat and come out without leaving a trace in the host computer. Same thing with your browser. Carry your own browser with bookmarks, browse in any machine and then come back without leaving a trace of your history, passwords etc.

This is now possible with "Portable softwares". You have messengers, antivirus softwares and even photo editing softwares like Photoshop etc. available in portable version. All you need is your USB drive / removable drive and then you can take them along with you wherever you go. No need of installing them at all. Open them, use them and close them – sounds like a Hero Honda slogan. But it’s that easy.

It has reached stages where you have a portable applications suite which you can install to your USB Drive and then access it wherever you connect the drive. So you have a whole load of portable applications and something like a control panel for that. Ain't that cool?

U3 is one such company providing smart drives. Check that out. When U3 is speaking more of smart drives (makes you feel as if you got to buy a smart drive and ur USB is just a normal drive), portableapps.com has an application that you can just install in ur USB or removable drive. Check these out and make the best use of ur USB drives.

Suggestion: Make sure you go for 2GB or higher USB drives when buying one so that you have some space for these portable softwares.