Portable Apps

Hi Developers!

Today about portable apps. These are the applications that can be installed on removable memory sources like memory cards or pendrives.
Why are they useful? What's the benefits of using them? How can they aid in web design?
They are useful because on most of occasions they are lightweight and self contained. These are usually very useful simple editors, but also antivirus software, browsers, mail clients, etc.
Benefits of using them are: first of all they leaves no marks in system's register so they surely won't affect the functionality of the existing configuration and therefore they will probably work without problems (everything however depends on the system hardware requirements); second: they allow to bring whatever you do to the environment where some of the functionality required is not available, for example when you are given a new computer with nothing on it you still can have your toolkit with you. Third: you can take it anywhere and use it anywhere.
Aid for web design is therefore simple: you can always have your office, your e-mails, messages, pages, servers, editors, code, websites always with you.
So is it fully bulletproof?
Of course not. You can always forget your memory key (although it is your fault and not the portable apps nor your pendrive!).
And sometimes applications tends to freeze and generally are working slower due to limited transfer posed by USB itself.

Two great pages with portable apps are:

PortableApps.com

and

PendriveApss.com


See you soon Developers!