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Portable Apps

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by Melvin Rivera
Updated: Apr 13th, 2006

Portable-Firefox

What is Portable Apps? They are applications that save their data in the drive they reside in, not in the host computer they are running in. This mean I can run Firefox from my iPod and all of it’s preferences, bookmarks, history and extensions will stay on my iPod and not in my computer. This allows me to run my app in any computer without leaving any of this info on the actual computer. Freesmug has a small list of open source apps, but it covers the basics (browser, email, ftp, cha,t etc). It has been rumored for a while that Apple is working on a iPod portable home folder but nothing has been released yet from Cupertino. But in the meantime, there’s Freesmug.

Link: freesmug.org/portableapps


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