Portable Applications
Posted by Ben Harris
Portable applications are really great little things. A few months ago, I bought a 2GB ScanDisk Cruzer Micro from good old play.com for a few quid. I then remembered a cool site that I had seen called portableapps.com, so I popped over there and downloaded the ‘Standard Portable Apps Suite’.
Once you have downloaded it (all 89.5mb of it), you run a nice little simple installer which installs a menu system, and an array of application on your chosen drive, Its a bit tricky to explain, so I’ll just put up a picture of what mine looks like.
You can also add new applications by either downloading available ones off the above mentioned site or, you can put any self contained application into the folder the original installer makes called ‘Portable Apps’. So for example, I added a folder called Opera with Opera Portable inside, and the menu automatically picks the application up… Good stuff, gotta love technology when it works 
Regards
Ben