Portable Apps
What is a portable app? It’s an application that doesn’t have to be installed normally for it to work. A downloaded archive file can be extracted to a folder. And after it’s extracted, the software can be used like a regularly installed application.
Some people install portable apps on their usb thumb drives so they can use familiar software whereever they go. I use it at work because some of the software I enjoy using isn’t installed on my office computer, including Firefox. There’s a version of the Mozilla client installed, but I like using Firefox more. Plus, I can always just delete the folder Firefox is in if I want to delete the client from the system.
I also use Filezilla to do maintenance on my website through ftp. Gimp can be used to do photo editing on the go. And although I despise IM, there’s even the free IM client, Gaim, since I doubt most work computers have an IM client installed.
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