Portable Apps At it again

…Ok let me set the stage … I just got a u3 thumb drive …more info Here A u3 drive AutoRuns a menu on start to run Portable Applications Applications that you can run from a ThumbDrive anyways so … a lot of innovation has come from PortableApps.com … the makers of PortableFirefox and PortableThunderbird John Haller … anyways he has made an awesome portable app called the PortableAppsMenu It is just like the u3 menu except its FREE and OPEN-SOURCE and its so much more customizable then the u3 menu … also you can customize every aspect of this menu … it comes either pre-stocked with apps such as openoffice , firefox , and thunderbird weighting in at about 90 megs , without openoffice for 30 megs or with no apps and completely customizable for a paltry 1 meg … as you can see the menu is very visually appealing . and since its opensource it is completely customizable and redustributable … it also comes with an awsome program called PortableApps backup wich is an opensource backup program to backup your data and settings …and the BIGGEST difference between this and the u3 launcher is the fact that this does NOT require that you have special hardware you can use any media you want … a usb hard drive , a use thumb drive , an ipod, iriver , zen , psp , digital camera (if you wanted to…) ANYTHING … You can download many version of this app …but make sure you download them from either the official site PortableApps.com/suite or one of the following urls

• Download the full version at 80 megs Here
• Download the lite version without openoffice Here
• Download the base version with only PortableApps Backup and PortableApps Menu Here

Also make sure you see PortableApps Other Awesome features like:

• How Do I add apps to my new portableapps menu ?
• Browse The portableapps App Directory
• Checkout what other Thumb-Drive Toting geeks think at the portableapps forums
• What is a portable app anyway ?
• PortableApps Development
• Subscribe the the PortableApps Newsletter

But wait … there’s more … there is more than ONE portable application site …. PortableApps.com might write the apps … but my FAVORITE site catalogs hundreds upon hundreds of apps is PortableFreeware.com and portablefreeware also has very active forums … the portable apps menu is actually posted on portablefreeware Here The forums are at Portablefreeware.com/forums … have fun with portable apps Technorati Tags: Freeware, free-software, opensource, portable-apps, portable-applications, thumbdrives, flashdrives, usb-drives, downloads, software