Portable Apps
Posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 9:28 am under Mac Geekery.
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
Apr 13th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
PortableApps.com is a great resource for many popular free and open source apps (FireFox, OpenOffice, VLC, etc). I use portable FireFox on my flash drive daily at work, to get around my lack of admin rights on the windows box they force me to use :-)
Apr 14th, 2006 at 8:03 am
This sounds like a really cool app. Lets see if Apple actually does bring out a home folder with the next-gen of iPods.
Apr 17th, 2006 at 1:34 am
RE: Thanasi
portableapps.com are window only. http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/are Mac OS X