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  • December 22, 2009 - Everything USB - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Unveils 1.0 Format for USB App Developers - "Having put the finishing touches on a few remaining items that allow for many more programs to share in the portable glory. The 1.0 release is effectively an invitation for developers to tinker with creating portable applications with a friendly wrapper and installer."
  • December 19, 2009 - lifehacker - Top 10 Essential Tools for Your Wallet, Keychain, or Pocket - "If you're the PortableApps[.com] type, you've always got a working Firefox/Pidgin/Thunderbird setup handy for being productive on someone else's system."
  • December 15, 2009 - MakeUsOf - The Three Best MP3 Players For Portable USB Drives - "This one is, if we may, a ‘real’ portable application. Based on the original CoolPlayer, PortableApps[.com] has modified the application and repackaged it as a portable app. With 1.5 MB and over 2 million s to date, CoolPlayer+ Portable has proven itself both a lightweight and a fit candidate."
  • December 11, 2009 - - PortableApps[.com] Review (Applications For Your USB Memory Stick) - "I couldn’t tell the portable applications apart from the full versions of the applications when using them – Firefox and Thunderbird look and perform just like they would if they were running off my hard drive, and I was particularly impressed with the speed of OpenOffice when using the suite of applications. If you’re looking to take your applications on the road with you, portableapps.sitesunblocked.org is most definitely the way to go."
  • December 9, 2009 - Maximum PC - 15 Hacks Every Dropbox Should Know - "Firefox Portable is an app that's meant to run from anywhere, such as from a portable USB thumbdrive. In order to do this, a portable app has to be entirely self-contained, not storing any data anywhere else on your system. That means that if you get Portable Firefox and install it into your Dropbox, you'll have a full-featured browser that syncs and backs up all your data in the cloud. "
  • December 3, 2009 - The Huffington Post - The Writers Workbench: Holiday Gift Edition - "One other note: if you get a USB Flash drive (or already have one), but sure to read the TWW Notes at the bottom of the column linked above for Flash drives. There is a discussion of [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org], which are free and amazing. The short version is that these free applications store on your Flash drive and virtually give you a portable computer in your pocket."
  • December 1, 2009 - Information Week - Got An App? Make It A PortableApp - "The way they've done this is via the 1.0 release of the portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Installer, a tool for packaging a properly-formatted application into the one-click NSIS package used by the PA suite. The app in question needs to be prepared along certain guidelines to be used, but once that's done the rest is a snap. All aspects of the process -- the installer, the app guidelines -- are open for inspection and cost nothing to get rolling."
  • December 1, 2009 - The Washington Post - Make a Windows Install Flash Drive With WinToFlash - "Unless you want to really get technical in creating your own, this should probably be portable apps like those found à la carte at portableapps.sitesunblocked.org or together in the PortableApps[.com] Suite."
  • November 27, 2009 - GigaOM - 8 Timely Tips for the Netbook Buyer - "Complement Low Local Storage With a USB Drive... There are also useful web sites, especially PortableApps[.com], that you can use to stock up your Flash drive with useful, free applications."
  • November 24, 2009 - Computerworld - Exploiting the portable edition of Firefox - "Portable Firefox lets Windows s run a dozen different copies of Firefox in a single instance of Windows... A dozen, of course, is overkill, but for security reasons, you may want to maintain two copies of Firefox. You can have one copy configured for convenience, and one for security."
  • November 19, 2009 - lifehacker (Australia) - From The Tips Box: Sunburn Remedies, URL Shortening And More - "I’m a web developer and therefore I’m required to several versions of different browsers. As a result, I find myself checking sites in both FF 2 and 3 among many other leading browsers. My tip pertains to any application you can at portableapps.sitesunblocked.org but focuses on Firefox as an example."
  • November 17, 2009 - ArabianBusiness.com - Apps on a stick - "As a starting point, you can visit portableapps.sitesunblocked.org. This is a useful resource that has numerous popular programs that have been turned into portable applications available for . You can the packages available online, or you can programs individually one by one."
  • November 6, 2009 - Information Week - Open Source You Can Use, November Edition - "Google Chrome fans have most likely been hearing about the 4.0 revision of the browser, which boasts kick-butt JavaScript speeds and has become my preferred way to watch Flash-delivered content (e.g., YouTube). Get the PortableApps version of the 4.0 beta here; it installs side-by-side with the release edition so you don't have to choose between beta or release. "
  • November 4, 2009 - Computer World - Backing up your computer: How about the applications? - "You can get started with portable applications at portableapps.sitesunblocked.org, a great collection of free Windows software that is ever growing. Among the recent additions is a portable version of Google's Chrome web browser. I highly recommend the site."
  • November 3, 2009 - lifehacker - Remains of the Day: iPhone Carrier Unlocking Edition - "Want to try out Firefox 3.6 beta but don't want to lose your stable Firefox 3.5 installation? Grab the portable release. [PortableApps]"
  • November 1, 2009 - Silicon India - USB Flash Drives – The maximum usage - "You can work in your favorite applications from anywhere – even from the browsing center computer – no need to check for any software there – all you have it in your USB!! Yes – the free Portable application suite from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org makes this possible."
  • October 27, 2009 - lifehacker - Best Portable Application Suite: PortableApps[.com] - "we're here to announce PortableApps as the winning portable application suite"
  • October 26, 2009 - lifehacker - uTorrent Portable Puts BitTorrent on a USB Drive - "All the same features that you've come to love about uTorrent, like remote web control and organized s, are present in the portable version. In short, you'll never be stuck at mom's house without a means to access crucial content again."
  • October 26, 2009 - Information Week - PortableApps Adds Non-Open Source Apps, Sort Of - "The more ways there are to use the apps you want on the platform you want, the better. John Haller and his associates deserve a tip of the hat for making this all the more possible."
  • October 26, 2009 - gigaom - Using a Netbook? Add a Muscular USB Flash Drive to the Mix - "PortableApps[.com] is without a doubt the king of all sites that let you quickly and efficiently put bushels of useful open-source applications on your USB Flash drive. It won four awards at SourceForge’s recent Community Choice Awards (recognizing top open-source efforts) including Best Project."
  • October 23, 2009 - PortableApps adds Chrome and Skype - "The PortableApps Suite is a storehouse and management system for "portable" versions of some of the most popular freeware around. That collection used to be limited only to open-source programs. But on Wednesday it started making portable versions of closed-source freeware to s."
  • October 23, 2009 - Squad - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org releases portable (µ) uTorrent - "Today, John T. Haller and crew have added another winner to the mix. The world's most popular torrent client, µTorrent, is the most recent addition to the PortableApps freeware family."
  • October 22, 2009 - Maximum PC - A Fan of Portable Apps? Now You Can Carry Skype and Google Chrome in Your Pocket - "The [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] suite has saved the day on those instances for many. Just today, [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] has announced two welcome additions. You can now get portable versions of Skype and Google Chrome."
  • October 22, 2009 - Squad - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org debuts Portable Google Chrome and Portable Skype - "portableapps.sitesunblocked.org has been amassing a large, loyal fanbase for years - and with good reason. The project continues to turn out useful applications that we love to run from our USB flash drives."
  • October 22, 2009 - lifehacker - Chrome Portable 3.0 Lets You Take Google's Browser Anywhere - "portableapps.sitesunblocked.org — the folks who convert just about every popular application to a portable one you can carry with you on your thumb drive — have just released Google Chrome Portable 3.0, the portable version of Chrome's latest stable release."
  • October 17, 2009 - makeuseof - 5 Portable Apps Games For Your USB Stick To Kill Some Time - "There are many other games in the [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] Games Section but these were the ones I found to be the best."
  • October 15, 2009 - jkOnTheRun - 7 Rules of the Road for Maximum Mobile Bliss - "2. Carry a toolkit for drive restores – It helps to expect the unexpected. In the case of mobile computers, it could be a hard drive failure, file corruption or who knows what. While you can’t anticipate every issue, you can easily prepare yourself for disaster with nothing more than a small flash drive. I carry one around with me and make sure it has software like a partition manager, certain device drivers, portable apps [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] and anything else I might need in the event of a major issue."
  • September 25, 2009 - ZDNet - Free Software is dead! Long live free software! - "Last week I was also using portableapps.sitesunblocked.org to view images on a restricted-access Windows machine... The good news is that because the source code is open, anyone else is free to take the code and develop it further. "
  • September 23, 2009 - Sync - Use portable apps to always have your favorite programs handy - "Imagine you are in an office or computer lab and unable to use one of your favorite programs... A portable app stored on a USB drive will take care of the problem... I recommend browsing the portableapps.sitesunblocked.org website for programs you may be interested in having. You can an entire suite or pick-and-choose which programs to keep."
  • September 15, 2009 - One Bag - Packing List - Specialty Items - "You can greatly augment the use of borrowed/rented computers by carrying one or more inexpensive flash drives... make it easy to bring along personal files, and even favourite applications... portableapps.sitesunblocked.org is a good source of appropriate Windows software."
  • September 10, 2009 - Nashua Telegraph - Time for IE 6 to hit the road - "Try running the Portable Edition of Firefox (portableapps.sitesunblocked.org) off a USB flash drive"
  • August 25, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - Work Smarter: 5 Top, Inexpensive Hardware Devices and Tweaks - "PortableApps[.com] is my favorite site for ing a suite of Windows apps optimized for a flash drive"
  • August 17, 2009 - The Buffalo News - Dump IE 6, Explorer 8 - "Try running the Portable Edition of Firefox (portableapps.sitesunblocked.org) off a USB flash drive"
  • August 17, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - What's In Your Bag, Will Kelly? - "4GB thumb drive that includes PortableApps[.com]"
  • August 15, 2009 - Washington Post - Applications on a Flash Drive - "Then there's portableapps.sitesunblocked.org, which creates and gives away portable versions of existing free, open source software. There you'll find your Office solution, a portable version of OpenOffice, the popular, free alternative to Microsoft Office."
  • August 13, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - Web Work 101: Great Software Starter Bundles - "PortableApps[.com]... comes with portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, along with OpenOffice.org, a PDF reader and an IM client, and even a game or two thrown in for good measure."
  • August 12, 2009 - PC World - Applications on a Flash Drive
  • August 5, 2009 - TechRepublic - 10 cool things you can do with a USB flash drive - "If that's not enough, you can choose other applications to install on your USB flash drive from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org (Figure A). You can even install an entire prepackaged suite of applications that includes such things as an audio player, games, an antivirus utility, and a handy menu system."
  • August 4, 2009 - Computeractive (UK) - Use an external hard disk to store data - "You can find some free portable programs from Portableapps[.com] together with instructions on how to . The list includes the Firefox web browser, an anti-virus program and Openoffice for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations."
  • July 31, 2009 - ComputerWorld UK - Open Source Reaches Parts Others Cannot - "This has led to the flourishing of an entire portable apps ecosystem, centred around the site portableapps.sitesunblocked.org."
  • July 30, 2009 - The H - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org reaches 100 million s - "portableapps.sitesunblocked.org founder John T. Haller has announced that his site for portable applications has reached its 100 millionth milestone."
  • July 27, 2009 - The H Open - SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009: winners announced - "This years most popular project, winning four out of the twelve categories, was portableapps.sitesunblocked.org, which allows s easily install various popular open source applications to a USB flash drive or external hard drive. Once installed, the applications can run completely from the drive and be used on any Windows computer."
  • July 24, 2009 - Salon.com - PortableApps[.com] Suite Out in New Beta - "It's especially popular as a way to store many useful applications on a pocketable drive, so that you can work anywhere, from any computer."
  • July 24, 2009 - FOX Business - SourceForge Announces Winners of Fourth Annual Community Choice Awards - "Grabbing top honors in four of the 12 categories, including Best Project, portableapps.sitesunblocked.org was the big winner of the night."
  • July 24, 2009 - twit.tv - Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott - "PortableApps[.com] allows you to run loads of different applications directly from a USB key."
  • July 24, 2009 - OStatic - PortableApps Delivers Enhanced Beta of its Open Source App Suite - "It's a suite of truly excellent, pre-selected, open source applications that you can stick on a USB flash drive. That enables you to have your applications--with your pre-set preferences--available to run on any computer, anytime."
  • July 24, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - PortableApps Suite Out in New Beta - "You can find an exhaustive list of the enhancements in the new version of PortableApps here. Among them is the ability to switch themes, with many available color schemes, and to set the transparency of menus to your liking."
  • July 24, 2009 - OStatic - Twelve Open Source Projects Snag Top Prize at SourceForge's Community Choice Awards - "'Obviously the big story of the night was portableapps.sitesunblocked.org and John Haller's priceless reaction to winning four awards including Best Project,' said Ross Turk, Director of Community for SourceForge."
  • July 20, 2009 - OnSoftware - Ask OnSoftware: Updating PortableApps - "The PortableApps Suite comes highly recommended, as it’s a fantastic collection of genuinely useful free software, with a really friendly interface."
  • July 17, 2009 - TechSpot - of the Week: PortableApps[.com] Suite - "The PortableApps[.com] Suite is a compilation of free and open source software for Windows preconfigured to work from your USB drive, and integrated with a sleek customizable menu. "
  • July 8, 2009 - jkOnTheRun - Carry VLC in Your Pocket to Enjoy Portable Media on Any PC - "But you can't expect every major codec installed on every PC you come across, can you? ... with VLC Media Player Portable, you don't have to."
  • July 8, 2009 - lifehacker - VLC Portable 1.0 Puts Multi-Format Playing on Thumb Drives - "the portable version, weighing in at 20MB, doesn't require an installation and plays without leaving many traces on a Windows system. It works launching on its own, or from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org's handy thumb drive launching menu."
  • July 8, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - Firefox 3.5 and New VLC Media Player Are Out As Portable Apps - "these are outstanding applications for a portable drive or a device such as a netbook"
  • July 6, 2009 - TechRadar - Secure your identity and data on every PC you use - Protect yourself with this essential portable security toolkit - "Portable Firefox - This comes as part of the PortableApps collection, and enables you to browse the web without worrying about leaving any tell-tale traces of where you've been: everything from your cookies to your browser history"
  • July 2, 2009 - lifehacker - Firefox 3.5 Portable Available for - "This portable version comes to us from the reliable folks at portableapps.sitesunblocked.org, makers of the popular, previously mentioned Portable[Apps.com] Suite, and brings all the goodies of Firefox 3.5 to your thumb drive."
  • July 2, 2009 - OStatic - Firefox 3.5, Portable Edition Arrives - "like the other portable versions of popular open source applications that PortableApps[.com] offers, it's perfect as a lightweight app that you can keep on a USB thumb drive or other portable device."
  • July 2, 2009 - Softpedia - SourceForge Celebrates 4 Billion s - "The 4 billionth app is the popular portableapps.sitesunblocked.org suite, which offers a way to carry and use your applications on a USB flash drive or other portable devices."
  • July 2, 2009 - The H - SourceForge.net: four billion served - "The four billionth application was ed on the 8th of June from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org, a popular portable software site and open source platform that lets s install and run applications from a USB flash drive."
  • July 2, 2009 - GHacks - Firefox 3.5 Portable - "Probably the easiest way of finding out if they can Firefox 3.5 is by testing the Firefox 3.5 portable release."
  • June 22, 2009 - The Boston Globe - Thumb drives take on more than file transfers - "With a free called PortableApps[.com], you can use a USB drive to customize any Windows-based computer."
  • June 19, 2009 - News Factor - Back Up Or Tune In: Thumb Drives Make It Easy - "With a free called PortableApps, you can use a USB drive to instantly customize any Windows-based computer. Just go to portableapps.sitesunblocked.org and a mini-suite of software, including Firefox, OpenOffice, an antivirus program called ClamWin, and dozens of other applications."
  • June 9, 2009 - PC Magazine - 5 High-Capacity USB Drives - "the free portableapps.sitesunblocked.org suite lets you carry over a dozen applications on any flash drive, with dozens more available for free ."
  • June 2009 - Christian Computing Magazine - Portable Apps: Your Computer Without the Computer™ (PDF) - "If you have a Netbook, with its relatively limited space, or you move about from PC to PC, you are going to want PortableApps[.com], a launching platform for a whole array of programs that you can install on a USB drive, put it in your pocket, and take off."
  • May 29, 2009 - The Washington Post - Personal Tech: Gadget News and Reviews - "I suggest you Portable Firefox (portableapps.sitesunblocked.org), put that on a USB drive, and run that on your computer."
  • May 28, 2009 - Inc.com - 10 Free (or Cheap) Tools for Start-ups - "PortableApps[.com] is a package of free software, which you can onto a flash drive... You don’t need to install this software on the computer you're using; just plug in a Flash drive and run it."
  • May 26, 2009 - The Tech Herald - Review: Verizon’s HP Mini 1151NR - "Offloading some things to smaller, less resource-intensive applications will help. We tested several things in the portableapps.sitesunblocked.org repository and had no problems performing various tasks at the same time"
  • May 25, 2009 - lifehacker - The Gear and Tactics from Lifehacker's Laptop Bags - "I use it to hold 8GB of whatever I need, minus the space for some PortableApps[.com] and a Kee vault."
  • May 13, 2009 - lifehacker - Lifehacker Laptop Bags: Kevin Purdy Edition - "What's on it? A host of PortableApps[.com] and my Kee vault, of course."
  • May 6, 2009 - Web Worker Daily - 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks - "I highly recommend ing PortableApps[.com], which delivers a huge collection of useful open-source applications and utilities that you can keep on your thumb drive... It's reassuring to know that whenever you need to carry out a task, it's highly likely that there will be something in the [portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] collection on your thumb drive that will be able to do it."
  • April 26, 2009 - Examiner.com - Resources for Freelancers: On-the-move flash drive - "The great thing about carrying your basics on your pen drive is that in many situations, you can respond to email requests, fresh appointments, and add quickly value in an on-site gig... Check out PortableApps[.com]"
  • April 16, 2009 - The New York Times - Your Second Home | Working Remotely - In the Cottage, Yet Industrious - "Possibly the simplest option... Plug the drive into another computer, do your work, then pull out the drive, leaving behind no trace since you can use a Web browser and other programs that live on your flash drive, not on the computer's."
  • April 16, 2009 - The Daily r - Tips to when using public computers - "Software is moving to a portable state. Currently you can bring many of your favorite desktop apps with you, on your memory stick. Web sites like PortableApps (portableapps.sitesunblocked.org) allow you to carry software such as Internet browsing, business productivity, and photo editing to name a few."
  • April 2, 2009 - lifehacker - Best of the Best: Hive Five Winners, January through March 2009 - "Lifehacker readers love their Firefox, and with Portable Firefox, you can take your web browsing experience and all of the accompanying tweaks and extensions you've come to know and love with you wherever you go."
  • March 25, 2009 - PC Magazine - Your Computing Life, on a USB Thumb Drive - "Launch it and you'll see an icon in the system tray; click the icon and you'll get a pop-up menu reminiscent of the Windows Start menu, full of programs installed along with the portableapps.sitesunblocked.org software."
  • March 24, 2009 - Mt Vernon News - Ask a Geek: USB stick also carries programs - "These portable applications can come in very handy on vacation, business trips, and even at work if you need something that isn't already installed."
  • March 23, 2009 - PC World (and Washington Post) - Free Mobile Services for Staying Productive on the Road - "portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Suite: Packed with a handful of popular open-source apps (the Firefox browser, OpenOffice.org office suite, and Pidgin chat client), this able suite runs directly from a thumbdrive, so you can run it on any PC."
  • March 23, 2009 - PC World - 101 Great Free Sites and s You've Probably Never Head Of - "portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Suite"
  • March 12, 2009 - OStatic - PortableApps Still Offers Herds of Free Apps in One , Gets Upgrade - "PortableApps has released an overhauled version 1.5 of its portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Suite... it's an especially good way to get a bushel of choice open source applications onto a USB thumb drive or portable computer in one ."
  • March 12, 2009 - WebWorkerDaily - PortableApps Delivers Better Look, Security in New Version 1.5 - "The new version 1.5 of the suite has a new, much better-looking theme than the old tabula rasa look... You can also launch applications as an , and keep application icons out of menus... These features alone are good reasons to upgrade."
  • March 10, 2009 - lifehacker - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Suite 1.5 Improves Menu Looks, Customization - "The portableapps.sitesunblocked.org Suite, a full-featured app package that runs from a USB drive, has upgraded with a crisper-looking and more customizable menu, the latest versions of a ton of great freeware, and other improvements."
  • March 9, 2009 - Squad - portableapps.sitesunblocked.org suite 1.5 released - "The platform comes with a program menu that pops up when you insert your USB stick, or when you launch the program, and a suite of apps including a web browser, instant messenger, and office suite."
  • February 19, 2009 - Information Week - Open Source You Can Use, Feb '09 Edition - "First up: the release of OpenOffice Portable 3.01, the no-install edition of OpenOffice, now with the latest updates and bug fixes. 3.01 opens noticeably faster than previous versions -- on my machine, it opens almost as fast as AbiWord, which is saying something."
  • February 13, 2009 - Tucson Business - Keeping track of all your IDs and s - "Since I work from a variety of computers with varying security levels, I’ve long been using applications from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org. These applications are portable versions that can run from a USB drive and do not require istrative privileges on the systems they run on."
  • February 7, 2009 - The Canadian Press - New portable software lets you take programs and preferences with you - "From Internet browsers and email clients to image editors and word processors, many portable applications are free and don't require much technical know-how."
  • January 30, 2009 - About.com - Portable Apps for On-The-Go IM - "While s cannot always IMs to computers at work or school because of istrative control, they can utilize portable apps for IM by ing and installing them to a USB drive; once installed, the portable apps can be run from the USB drive connecting s to all their favorite IM s. "
  • January 26, 2009 - PC World - How to Protect Your Online s - "you're better off running your applications from a portable drive using the excellent tools available from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org. This site hosts dozens of apps that have been "portabilized" so that they store all temporary files, cache files, and history on the portable drive itself."
  • January 20, 2009 - lifehacker - Hive Five Winner for Best Portable Application: Portable Firefox - "Portable Firefox was sworn in as the most popular portable app following this weekend's Hive Five Best Portable Applications, raking in a landslide 52% of the vote. The second spot goes to media Swiss Army knife VLC Portable, followed by manager Kee in third."
  • January 20, 2009 - Winston Salem Journal - U3 software can be a pain - "you don't need U3 to take programs with you; see portableapps.sitesunblocked.org for applications that run on any flash drive."
  • January 4, 2009 - Washington Post - Help File - "you don't need U3 to take programs with you; see portableapps.sitesunblocked.org for applications that run on any flash drive."

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  • December 19, 2007 - CNET News.com - Firefox 3 beta 2 is out and about - "If you're a bit nervous about accidentally damaging your current installation of Firefox 2, but you'd like to try out the Firefox 3 beta, I recommend installing the portable version. It doesn't affect your old settings, although you can't run both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta portable simultaneously."
  • December 12, 2007 - lifehacker - Try Out Firefox 3 Risk-Free with a Portable Version - "Eager to check out all the new hotness in the Firefox 3 beta but don't want to scuff up your perfect Firefox 2 setup?"
  • December 8, 2007 - Digg.com - Firefox 3 beta goes portable - "Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without mes all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version."
  • December 7, 2007 - .com - The Daily - Test Firefox 3 risk-free - "If you're curious about the beta, though, and you don't want to risk your Firefox 2 settings, the Firefox 3 beta 1 portable gives us all an easy and safe way to play around with the browser as it's in development."
  • December 7, 2007 - Squad - Firefox 3 beta goes portable - "Because Firefox Portable is self-contained, it will not write any data to your hard drive or registry. That means you can test out Firefox 3's new features like Places, and improved location bar without mes your current settings. You don't have to install Firefox 3 Portable to a flash drive, you can just as easily install it to a folder on your hard drive."
  • December 7, 2007 - Information Week - Get (And Give) The Gift of Open Source - "The first big open-source project that gets a little of my Christmas cheer is the PortableApps suite, an incredibly useful bundle of no-install-needed editions of popular open-source programs. It's a one-stop shop of sorts for a whole slew of common apps -- Firefox, the OpenOffice.org suite, VLC, and 7-Zip -- and it can be run either from a removable drive or from a single self-contained directory on a PC."
  • November 9, 2007 - CNet Blogs - Dealing with software crashes - Part 1 - "The classic use of portable applications is to run them off a USB thumb drive, but they work just as well running off the C disk. I do this all the time. Whenever possible, I prefer to use portable applications (see this about portable Thunderbird)."
  • November 6, 2007 - WIRED How To Wiki - Carry Your Desktop Anywhere With Portable Apps - "once installed on your portable device and connected to a host machine, [it] will auto-launch with menus allowing you to select which programs to use"
  • October 16, 2007 - Columbia Tribune - USB drives let you plug in to new possibilities - "Lots of different software publishers are releasing portable versions of their products, but the best one-stop source is PortableApps, a suite of completely free, open-source mini-apps for flash drives. These miniature - but full-featured - Windows applications run entirely from your USB flash drive, without installing anything on the host computer."
  • October 15, 2007 - Library Journal - Consuming Information - "Like how you have Firefox set up? Carry it with you, along with the dozen or two other programs you use in order to consume and manipulate information. Start with John Haller's open source PortableApps Suite, which includes useful applications like Firefox, Pidgin, and OpenOffice.org. Learn a program once, configure how you want it, and have it accessible when you need it."
  • September 3, 2007 - CNET - Three cheers for portable Thunderbird - "While portability is the prominent, public, sexy feature, to me, being able to backup an application is just as important, if not more so. You can back up a portable application simply by copying a folder."
  • August 30, 2007 -Linux Magazine - Stupid USB Tricks (free registration required) - "[portableapps.sitesunblocked.org] gives you the convenience of running the same applications on anyone's PC, without disrupting the machine or leaving a trace of your activity. You just plug in your USB device with the applications installed, click on a launch program, and you have an instant office environment, along with all your files."
  • August 14, 2007 - Manila Standard Today - Linux in my pocket - "Running programs off a flash drive when you’re outside the office makes for good security, too. After you quit, nothing—no data, cookies, backup files or cached browser pages—is left behind on the computer you used. All that’s safely tucked away in your flash drive."
  • August 2, 2007 - Linux Magazine - Open Anywhere! (free registration required) - "That’s pretty impressive! With PortableApps, you can use the Web, read email, transfer files, chat with friends, ssh into machines, edit images and sounds, watch movies and listen to music, write office documents, zip up the results, and store s securely! And , there are even more programs on the site, with new ones coming all the time."
  • July 31, 2007 - Manila Standard Today - Really portable computing - "A less intrusive and more flexible approach is to install free Portable Apps (https://portableapps.sitesunblocked.org/) on any USB drive."
  • July 30, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal - Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You - "All three of our experts pointed to a company called Rare Ideas LLC (RareIdeas.com), which offers free versions of popular programs such as Firefox and OpenOffice. You can the software onto a portable device like an iPod or a USB stick, through a service called Portable Apps (portableapps.sitesunblocked.org). Then hook the device up to your work computer, and you're ready to go"
  • July 18, 2007 - SoftPedia - Softpedia Pick and 100% FREE Awards for Notepad++ Portable, MPlayer Portable and VirtualDub Portable
  • July 7, 2007 - lifehacker - Featured : OpenOffice Portable upgrades - "Now you can take your documents and the programs you need to work on them with you wherever you go."
  • July 3, 2007 - DL.TV - Free Productivity Apps, Free Media Players, And a whole lot more! - "It's portableapps.sitesunblocked.org. It's a sweet site that you can basically a file and install it to your USB key, your flash drive, any flash drive... the awesome thing about this is that... you can take it to any other Windows PC and just plug it in."
  • June 25, 2007 - Geeks.com - Computing on the Go with PortableApps - "PortableApps enables you to compute on the go in a package that literally fits in your pocket. While PortableApps won't replace your desktop or notebook computer, it's a quick, easy to use, and convenient way to get work done while you're away from home. You don't have to worry about losing or damaging an expensive piece of hardware or leaving your “footprint” on a computer that's accessible to the public."
  • June 23, 2007 - Information Week - USB Flash Drives Mobilized - "PortableApps Suite from portableapps.sitesunblocked.org is a preconfigured collection of such programs that's a snap to run."
  • June 5, 2007 - SitePoint - FirefoxPortable—Your Mobile Office Without a Laptop - "In summary, if you’re traveling places where you don’t want to take the laptop (and who really wants to carry one anywhere?), get yourself a thumb drive and make yourself at home on it."
  • April 2, 2007 - Maximum PC - Maximum PC's Fifth Annual Softy Awards - "PortableApps delivers a free bundle of computing goodies that can be loaded onto any device—thumb drive, hard drive, iPod, whatever!"
  • March 28, 2007 - PC World - 101 Fantastic Freebies - "Do you find yourself frustrated when you're on the go, without all your applications and data?"
  • March 17, 2007 - InfoWorld - Stealth Tech: portableapps.sitesunblocked.org - "I was filled with glee at discovering portableapps.sitesunblocked.org."
  • March 5, 2007 - Tuscaloosa News - Exchange benefits travelers - "[Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition] allows me to check all eight of those s from one piece of software then store the messages on my USB drive for viewing or responding later."
  • February 26, 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle - Computing Q&A: Bookmark help from Firefox - "The portable version works just like the regular hard-drive version -- with the added bonus that your personal settings such as toolbar links and bookmarks are transportable from computer to computer."
  • February 12, 2007 - The Tampa Tribune - A Better Start On The Web - "you really should have the excellent and free PortableApps Suite"
  • February 2, 2007 - Computeract!ve - Carry a web browser on a USB drive - "[Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] makes it possible to take favourite websites wherever you go, while benefiting from features such as tabbed browsing."
  • January 29, 2007 - WhatIs.com - What Is Podcast: What is a portable application?
  • January 2, 2007 - PC World - This: Tech That Won't Tie You Down - "The benefit of toting the suite around is that you'll always have the programs you're used to, along with all your saved bookmarks, settings, and other customizations"

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