A Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives

A Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives -

Update: Nov 28,custom flash drives, 2006… Alan in the comments tells me of Pstart, "a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), apad you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks."

kikizas.net TinyApps NoInstall USBspace.com USB Flash Drive Freak USBApps Portable Freeware Stand Alone What’s On My Pen Drive? Haxial (actually software written by them for XP and Macs: All work on USB drives) Engadget posting + comments

Here’s a directory of applications designed to run on USB drives, flash drives,mp4 players, key fobs, thumb drives, whatever you want to call them, a subject I wrote about in the AWSJ and WSJ.com (subscription required; sorry). This doesn’t claim to be an exhaustive list,cell phone watch, but I’ve tried to keep it as up to date as possible.

Resources

Editor: Papyrus,compact flash memory card, EditPad, Atlantis, Office: AbiWord,dstt sd, OpenOffice (instructions in a PDF here) Outliner/note taker: TexNotes Pro PDF reader: FoxIt PDF Reader Web Authoring: NVU Wikis: MediaWiki

Other directories/resources/blogs:

Alternative Windows shell: BBLean File manager: Total Commander Network diagnostics: PingPlotter Operating Systems: Linux,micro sd memory cards, Windows CE, VPM (Linux), Damn Small Linux Servers: The Uniform Server, MiniServer Start menus/launchers: Absolute Startup manager, Startup Control Panel,mini dv video camcorder, PStart,
System information tool: SIW

Utilities/OS

Hardware/packages

Animation: Anim8or, PePaKuRa Calculator: Calc98 PIMs/organisers: EssentialPIM,m2 usb card reader, Sunbird , AZZ Cardfile Sticky notes: ATNotes Task Organisers: ToDoList Lotus Notes on a Stick

Editors/Readers

Browsers: Portable Firefox, OperaUSB, Portable Safari
Offline browser: HtTrack, Webaroo (for U3)
Chat/instant messaging: ICQ (not yet available), Miranda, Trillian Anywhere, Easy Message, AltMe Email: JBMail, Portable Thunderbird, EmailVoyager, PocoMail PE, FoxMail, i.Scribe / InScribe, Email Segway, Email Commander, Reach-a-Mail, hiphone a ‘complete portable email system’,
FTP clients: FileZilla Bookmark manager: Bookmark Base

Productivity

Please keep china ipad the suggestions coming, either via the comments or by emailing me directly (link on the left). Comments will be trawled and suggestions added.

Games: Beneath A Steel Sky, Flight of the Amazon Queen Music: Zoom Player, XMPlay, Coolplayer, MPUI (frontend for MPlayer), foobar2000, Video player: Media Player Classic

Tax software: TaxCut A USB iped drive for the blind: Serotek’s FreedomBox is a USB drive containing a text-to-speech and speech-to-text software as well
as mainstream applications like Word, Firefox and Skype. This enables
blind people to use any Windows computer just by plugging in their  drive. Prices at $129 (or ?69). (via isolani) Portable VoIP Phone: "Skype 2.5 has been built into the Virtual CD-Rom, no need to download Skype software to your computer, you only need to plug the Flash Drive Phone into any internet connected PC or laptop, the Skype 2.5 will pop-up automatically… compatible with all kinds of softphones,china cheap phone, including VoipBuster, VoipCheap, Voipstunt, Firefly, X-pro, Net2phone, Eyebeam, etc." One touch USB hard drive backup: Pexagon Store-It Lighting control software: Martin Lightjockey 512 USB,

 

Leisure

Security

Medical: Angel Mobile Medical Profile, personal medical history (Med-a-Drive)

Anti malware: Ad-Aware Encryption: CryptoAnywhere, Cryptainer, Portable Vault,buy n5, TrueCrypt, useful guide on encrypting a drive from dekart, CryptoStick, Password manager/logon: Roboform Portable, DigiSAFE PassVault, Password Agent, Keepass, CyberScrub KeyChain (also files in forms),wifi mobile phones, Arovax TraySafe, Proteg (from Inflexpoint), Password Manager, Blue Micro USB Flash Drive Logon,notebook sound card, PasswordVault

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