List Of Applications And Resources For USB Drives
Want to try out some of the applications mentioned in this article? Here is a list of the apps and resources that you can use to increase the potential of your USB flash drive.
Application Suites
PortableApps.com Suite
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
A preconfigured collection of programs that's a snap to unpack and get running.
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• Introduction • Be Productive • Run An OS • Maintain Passwords • Synchronize Data • Encrypt Your Data • List Of Resources |
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OpenOffice
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
A portable version of the popular open-source office suite.
Floppy Office
Xtort.net
Price: Free
Packs a nifty array of tiny little productivity tools into a mere 1.5MB archive.
Individual Applications
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
Mozilla's popular open-source browser.
OperaUSB
Markus Obermair
Price: Free
A version of the Opera browser tweaked for USB drives.
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail application scaled down for USB drives.
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
An open-source calendaring and task management application.
7-Zip Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
Archive manager that lets you work with compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, and RAR files, among others.
AbiWord Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
A lightweight word processing application made even more portable for USB drives.
Portable Scribus
Quate Development
Price: Free
A portable, standalone version of the open-source word processor and page-designer application.
FileZilla Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
The popular FTP client.
Gaim Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
The open-source Gaim instant messaging client packaged as a portable app.
Miranda IM Portable
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Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
Another IM client tweaked so that you can easily use it on a USB drive.
Sumatra PDF Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
A portable PDF reader.
ClamWin Portable
Rare Ideas, LLC
Price: Free
An anti-virus application for Microsoft Windows systems through XP.
ProduKey
NirSoft
Price: Free
A small utility which recovers product keys for Windows, Office, and a number of Microsoft server applications
Operating Systems
USB Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Install
Pen Drive Linux
Price: Free
A tutorial that enables a user to install, boot and run Ubuntu Edgy portably from a USB flash drive.
BartPE
Bart Lagerweij
Price: Free
A utility that builds a copy of Windows's Preinstallation Environment from an existing installation of Windows.
Installing And Booting Windows XP From USB Drive -- Guide
Ngine.de
Price: Free
How to run Windows directly from a USB flash drive.
Passwords
RoboForm2Go
Siber Systems, Inc.
Price: $39.95 (free limited version)
A password manager that is fills in Web forms, including passwords, but packs in a bundle of other useful and allied features.
KeePass
Dominik Reichl
Price: Free
One of the best open-source password managers around.
SuperGenPass
Chris Zarate
Price: Free
Creates a JavaScript "bookmarklet" which automatically supplies passwords for every Web site you visit.
Synchronize
Briefcase
Microsoft Corp.
Price: Included with OS
Lets you synchronize files from your computer into a Briefcase folder on a USB drive.
SyncToy
Microsoft Corp.
Price: Free
Helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.
Allway Sync
Usov Lab
Price: Free
Synchronization application which sports a staggering array of synchronization.
SyncBack Freeware
2BrightSparks
Price: Free; $30 for full version
A solid basic synchronization and backup application; the for-pay version adds the ability to synch in-use files and other features.
Encryption
TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt Foundation
Price: Free
Open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux, now at revision 4.3.
DataTraveler Secure
Kingston Technology Company
Price: $19-$299, depending on capacity
USB drives that come with hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption in sizes from 512MB to 8GB.
Other Resources
Listible
Listible
A Web site that lists resources and has a whole subcategory devoted to portable productivity applications.
Nirsoft
NIrsoft
A Web site that offers a collection of incredibly useful and free utilities.
Pendrivelinux.com
Pen Drive Linux
A Web site that features tutorials on how to get many common Linux distributions running from a USB drive.
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